Unicharm Corporation · TSE:8113

Unicharm — Q1 2017 Earnings Presentation

15 slides from Unicharm's earnings presentation, May 12, 2017

  1. Slide 1: First Quarter of the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2017 Investor Meeting

    First Quarter of the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2017 Unicharm Presentation Materials for Investor Meeting May 12, 2017 Takahisa Takahara President and CEO Unicharm Corporation Projections stated herein include those based on forecasts and plans as of now. Therefore, actual results may differ si

  2. Slide 2: Financial Results Summary

    First Quarter of the Fiscal Year Ending Dec. 31, 2017 Financial Results Summary  Consolidated results  Sales 146.3 billion JPY (0.2% increase）, Core operating profit 18.8 billion JPY (23.5% increase）  Steady progress both Sales and Core operating profit  Japan  Stable growth mainly in Health Ca

  3. Slide 3: Financial Performance Summary: First Quarter of the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2017

    Financial Performance Summary: First Quarter of the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2017 ◆ Acronyms used in this material BC： Baby Care Business FC： Feminine Care Business HC： Health Care Business C&F：Clean & Fresh Business PC： Pet Care Business Copyright (c) Unicharm 2012 Unicharm Corporation. Corp

  4. Slide 4: Consolidated account highlights

    0.2% increase in sales, 23.5% increase in core operating profit (Approx. 2% increase in income and 25% increase in operating profit) Sales in line and profit have surpassed forecast targets  Consolidated account highlights (Million of yen) 1Q 1Q (Ref.) Difference 2Q of FY Ending Achievement of FY E

  5. Slide 5: Consolidated core operating profit fluctuation

    Approx. 3.6 billion yen increase in core operating profit due to improvement of productivity and product mix improvements by strengthening value-added products sales in each country  Consolidated core operating profit fluctuation (100 millions of yen) Selling and Gross profit rate administrative 2.

  6. Slide 6: Geographical Segment Information

    In Japan, HC and PC business driving performance In Asia, driving forces for profit improvement is FC business  Geographical Segment Information (Millions of yen) (Ref.) 1Q 1Q Difference Actual of FY Ended of FY Ending Difference (%) difference Dec31,2016 Dec 31, 2017 (%) Sales 57,293 57,704 410 +0

  7. Slide 7: Core operating profit margin by geographical segment

    In Japan, Improve product mix by high value-added products In Asia, China business improvement  Core operating profit margin by geographical segment 25.0% ※1 Japan Asia Others Consolidated 21.0% 20.0% 16.7% 16.6% 17.0% 15.1% 15.0% 13.5% 14.2% 12.8% 12.3% 12.8% 11.0% 13.2% 10.5% 10.0% 11.6% 10.8% 9.

  8. Slide 8: Business Segment Information

    In PC business, improve profit due to shifting to high value-added products in North America In Japan also improve profit by increasing unit price based on high value- added products  Business Segment Information (Millions of yen) 1Q 1Q of FY Ending Difference of FY Ended Difference Dec 31, 2017 (%

  9. Slide 9: Overseas sales composition ratio 60.9%

    Overseas sales composition ratio 60.9％ (61.6% excluding exchange effects)  Japan / overseas sales (Billions of yen 70.1% 250 64.1% 70% 60.2% 61.1% 60.9% 53.9% 54.2% 60% 200 48.8% 44.6% 44.6% 43.8% 50% 48.0% 34.4% 39.4% 150 40% 30% 100 20% 50 10% 0 0% '11/1Q '12/1Q '13/1Q '14 /1Q '15 /1Q '16 /1Q '17

  10. Slide 10: Rate fluctuations by currency

    Effects of exchange fluctuations: Sales approx. -2.6 billion JPY, Core operating profit approx. -0.3 billion JPY  Rate fluctuations by currency Exchange rate Exchange rate Currency Change in rate Jan-Mar 2016 Jan-Mar 2017 Taiwan (TWD) 3.49 3.66 +4.9% Thailand (THB) 3.24 3.24 0% South Korea (KRW) 0.

  11. Slide 11: Shareholder Return Policy

    Shareholder Return Policy Copyright (c) Unicharm 2012 Unicharm Corporation. Corporation. All rights All rights reserved. reserved.

  12. Slide 12: Shareholder Return Policy

    Continued dividend increase in FY 2017 and total return ratio of 50% scheduled through the purchase of own shares and dividends linked to business performance  Shareholder Return Policy (Millions of yen) Dividends Purchase of own shares Total return ratio 30,000 55.6% 60.0% 53.9% 53.2% 49.5% 51.4%

  13. Slide 13: Stock buy-back acquisition graph

    Swiftly acquire stocks through buy-back based on cash conditions Already acquired 2.7million shares, 7 billion JPY for 1Q FY2017  Stock buy-back acquisition graph (100 millions of yen) 160 140 140 140 130 120 120 110 100 90 76 80 80 60 65 60 50 50 50 40 20 0 '06/3 '07/3 '08/3 '09/3 '10/3 '11/3 '12/

  14. Slide 14: Steady and continual dividend payments

    Steady and continual dividend payments On track for 16 consecutive periods of increased dividends  Dividends per share (JPY) 20.0 On track for 16 consecutive periods of 18.0 18.0 increased dividends in fiscal 2017 16.0 16.0 14.8 14.0 12.7 12.73 12.0 10.7 11.3 10.0 9.3 7.7 8.0 6.0 6.0 4.9 5.1 3.7 4.

  15. Slide 15: Copyright Corporation. All rights

    Copyright Copyright (c) (c) Unicharm Corporation. 2012 Unicharm All rights Corporation. reserved. All rights reserved. 15

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