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Transcription: Q1-report 2014
Title: Cloetta Q1 Report 2014 Date: 25.04.2014 Speakers: Jacob Broberg, Bengt Baron and Danko Maras Conference Ref. No: EV00010952 Duration: 34:06
Presentation
Jacob Broberg Good morning, and welcome to Cloetta’s quarterly results. My name is Jacob Broberg, head
- f investor relations, and as always I have Bengt Baron, CEO and Danko Maras, CFO with
- me. So I will now leave the presentation to Bengt. Please go ahead.
Bengt Baron Good morning, everybody. First quarter: I’d like to start out with the highlights of the
- quarter. We’re very pleased to have a third quarter with organic growth – 0.6% organic
growth, but adding FX and adding the Nutisal business, we actually had a growth of almost 6% in the quarter, versus last year. So, yeah, third quarter in a row with organic growth. Underlying EBIT was down versus last year – SEK77 million versus, last year, SEK91
- million. I’d like to emphasise that this is our smallest quarter, historically, from a seasonal
variation or annual variation. So the numbers – the differentials might seem large on a percentage basis, but in an absolute it’s actually not that big of a difference – SEK14 million. And on top of that, if you look at the three driving factors, which is lower production volumes causing absorption issues, foreign exchange and increased investments in marketing and promotions, we could actually have been ahead of last year taking those into account. But Danko will talk more about that in a sec. Items comparing – comparability is coming down, as we continue to work towards the completion of the restructuring. Operating profits – you start and see the convergence of reported and underlying. Differential is minimal – so it’s SEK52 million versus SEK58
- million. And also, I would say, very pleasing on the growth, but we’re equally pleased on the
cash flow from operating activity, which was SEK91 million in the quarter versus, last year, minus SEK16 million. And also it’s an indication of us actually approaching the phase where we have less and less of restructuring, and you see the cash flow flowing through as we actually said at the outset, about two years ago. Factory restructure – I’ll make some comments, but we are getting very close to completion. So three activities left, and I’ll leave that as a cliff-hanger and come back to that a little bit
- later. Likewise, Nutisal – we actually completed the deal and acquired the company on 8th