Elanders 2018 Annual Report
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ANNUAL REPORT 2018 Contents 18–29 ELANDERS 2018 CASES We primarily offer our services to This is Elanders 3 customers in five large customer The World of Elanders 4 segments that are all showing good The Year in Summary 6 growth: Automotive, Electronics, Fashion & Lifestyle, Health Care & CEO Comment 8 Life Science and Industrial. OPERATIONS Business Concept, Goals and Strategies 10 External Trends 12 Our Integrated Offer 14 P RO Our Customers CS C 16 TI U IS RE G M O e-Commerce E L N N T R L U O T G Cases 18 E I S R T Global Order I Management C S Value Five Years in Summary 30 Recovery G Sourcing & GIN KA E Procurement C -C A O P M & M T E N SHARE INFORMATION I R R C 14 P E OUR INTEGRATED OFFER Custom After Sales Configuration Share Information and Services CORE INDUSTRIES & Manufacturing Elanders is a leading company Automotive, Electronics, Ownership Structure Fashion & Lifestyle, 34 Health Care & Life Science, P S N S R U Industrial O E I P O T in global total solutions for the L P D A A L Y V U S O C C H N Warehouse R A IN T E & Inventory AUDITED ANNUAL REPORT IN I S O entire supply chain and is currently T ES Management N F IN Freight US A B Services Board of Directors’ Report 38 established on four continents. Packaging Print & Fulfillment & Risks and Uncertainty Factors 42 Distribution Corporate Governance Report 44 TRANSPORTATION Sustainability Report 50 Group 60 Financial Reports 60 Notes 64 Parent Company 92 Financial Reports 92 10 Notes 97 GLOBAL Proposed Appropriation STRATEGIC PARTNER of Profits 105 The Group’s overriding goal is to be a leader in Auditor’s Report 106 global solutions within OTHER INFORMATION supply chain manage- Reconciliation Alternative ment and print & Performance Measures 110 packaging. Financial Definitions 112 Specific ermsT 113 Board of Directors 114 Group Management, Auditors and Nomination Committee 116 Contact Elanders 118 8 CEO COMMENT: STRONG RECOVERY IN 2018 Annual General Meeting Intense organic growth continued in 2018 and Calendar 120 generated by both new business and greater demand from existing customers. Elanders 2018 2 Elanders 2018 This is Elanders We let our customers focus on their core business Elanders is a global supplier within supply chain management with a broad range of services of integrated solutions. The business is mainly run through two business areas, Supply Chain Solutions and Print & Packaging Solutions. The Group has almost 7,000 employees and operates in some 20 countries on four continents. Our most important markets are China, Germany, Singapore, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the USA. 10,742 17 84 Net sales, MSEK Number of countries Total number of locations 10 >1,000,000 6,652 Total m2 of production and warehouse space Total number of employees OUR BUSINESS AREAS 21 % Despite initial problems during the year from some customer projects with unexpectedly high start-up costs Elanders 79 % produced its best year ever. ● Supply Chain Solutions Magnus Nilsson, CEO ● Print & Packaging Solutions The World of Elanders Sweden 4 locations 153 employees UK Poland 4 3 locations locations 209 318 employees employees Czech USA Netherlands Republic Russia 5 2 1 locations locations 3 location locations 292 46 2 employees employees 350 employees employees Mexico Germany Austria China 1 42 1 12 location locations location locations 18 3,407 44 728 employees employees employees employees Hungary India Taiwan 3 2 1 locations locations location 316 222 5 employees employees employees Italy Singapore 1 2 location locations 19 473 employees employees Brazil 1 location 50 employees 4 Elanders Annual Report 2018 Elanders 2018 Sweden 4 locations 153 employees UK Poland 4 3 locations locations 209 318 employees employees Czech USA Netherlands Republic Russia 5 2 1 locations locations 3 location locations 292 46 2 employees employees 350 employees employees Mexico Germany Austria China 1 42 1 12 location locations location locations 18 3,407 44 728 employees employees employees employees Hungary India Taiwan 3 2 1 locations locations location 316 222 5 employees employees employees Italy Singapore 1 2 location locations 19 473 employees employees Brazil 1 location 50 employees Elanders Annual Report 2018 5 The Year in Summary 2018 in summary With the acquisition of LGI in 2016 Elanders created a stable platform for continued growth in supply chain management while broadening our customer base considerably. The strong organic growth during the last two years is a result of this. Net sales increased by MSEK 1,400 THREE YEAR OVERVIEW to MSEK 10,742 (9,342) compared to last year, i.e. 15 percent. The increase 2018 2017 2016 is due almost entirely to Supply Chain Net sales, MSEK 10,742 9,342 6,285 Solutions which grew in nearly every EBITDA, MSEK 725 563 516 market. Cleared of exchange rate fluc- EBITA, MSEK 523 371 384 tuations and effects of acquisitions and Result after financial items, MSEK 366 230 300 divestures of operations, net sales grew Result after tax, MSEK 259 165 217 by nine percent. Earnings per share, SEK 1) 7.18 4.65 7.35 Supply Chain Solutions has been Cash flow from operating activities per share, SEK 12.88 –1.81 11.19 Elanders’ largest business area for Equity per share, SEK 76.28 69.21 81.58 a number of years and makes up Dividend per share, SEK 2.90 2) 2.60 2.60 three-fourths of the Group. Net sales EBITA-margin, % 4.9 4.0 6.1 continued to grow intensely during the year at the same time the result was Return on total assets, % 6.6 4.3 6.7 weighed down in the beginning of 2018 Return on equity, % 9.8 6.8 12.4 and the end of 2017 by start-up costs Return on capital employed, % 8.5 6.2 10.0 that were higher than expected for some Net debt/EBITDA ratio 3.5 4.7 4.3 of the new customer projects. Measures Debt/equity ratio, times 0.9 1.1 0.9 were taken to make these projects more Equity ratio, % 35.0 33.1 35.6 efficient at the same time negotiations Average number of outstanding shares, thousands 35,358 35,358 29,555 were held with customers to raise prices. This produced positive results and as of 1) There is no dilution. 2) Proposed by the board. the second quarter these projects were in balance again. Several new deals were For Reconciliation Alternative Performance Measures and Financial definitions, see pages 110–112. struck during the year, which bodes well for the future, and implementation of them has gone according to plan. Excluding the new subscription box business in the USA net sales in Print & Packaging Solutions contracted by NET SALES PER QUARTER OPERATING RESULT around three percent. The new subscrip- AND OPERATING MARGIN tion box business is a combination of PER QUARTER supply chain management services and % traditional print, and sales have gone from zero to nearly 45 million US dol- lars over the last two years. % Business area e-Commerce Solutions ended the year with a strong fourth % quarter and showed a tangible improve- ment in the result compared to last year. % % % Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q ● 2017 Net sales, MSEK ● 2017 Operating result, MSEK RörelseresultatMkr % ● ● 15 2018 Net sales, MSEK 2018 Operating result, MSEK Net sales increased by 2017 Operating margin, % RörelseresultatMkr 15% in 2018. 2018Rörelsemarginal Operating margin, % 6 Elanders Annual Report 2018 Rörelsemarginal Elanders 2018 The business areas’ development in 2018 The business has primarily been run in three business areas: Supply Chain Solutions, Print & Packaging and e-Commerce Solutions. Each one is more or less an independent business. As of 1 January 2019 Elanders has only two business areas – Supply Chain Solutions and Print & Packaging Solutions since e-Commerce Solutions was incorporated into Print & Packaging Solutions. SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS PRINT & PACKAGING SOLUTIONS E-COMMERCE SOLUTIONS The positive trend in business area The market for business area Print & The business area has substantial Supply Chain Solutions, which consists Packaging Solutions continues, as in seasonal sales variations and the fourth of LGI and Mentor Media, has contin- previous years, to be characterized by quarter is by far the strongest. Normally ued. The business area is concentrated tough price pressure, shrinking total all earnings for the year occur in this on developing existing customers and volumes and overcapacity. Total print quarter, which was the case this year as creating new business, with both new volumes are down on every Elanders well. Several measures have been taken and existing customers – business that market and there is a clear shift towards to cut costs, which is apparent in the contains the highest degree possible of digital print and more personalized tangible improvement in the result during value-adding services. This has created products instead of traditional offset the year. substantial organic growth for the last print in large volumes. The business As of 1 January 2019 the business area two years and led to new business. The area is always working with production was incorporated into Print & Packaging problems with the start-up of some of capacity consolidation to adjust to the Solutions. the customer projects, which began in market situation. Despite the negative 2017, had a negative effect during the conditions there was a tangible improve- Brands: d|o|m, fotokasten first quarter and even in the begin- ment in the result compared to last year. and myphotobook ning of the second, but after several As part of this consolidation process the measures were taken during the year operations in China were divested and the projects are now in balance.