Greencore Group Plc Annual Report and Financial Statements 2020 Together, We’Re Making Every Day Taste
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#foodheroes Greencore Group plc Annual Report and Financial Statements 2020 Greencore Group plc Annual Report and Financial Statements 2020 Together, we’re making every day taste We are proud to introduce and celebrate our new corporate purpose. We are working for a future where our people and our business thrive sustainably, where what we do makes things better every day by nurturing and nourishing, and where better food and better relationships make a better business and a better world for us all. See Our business model on page 12 Our strategy defines the direction of the Group: See Our KPIs on page 22 Growth Our leadership positions in attractive and structurally growing food categories underpin a strategy that combines strong organic growth potential with disciplined strategic investment. Read more on page 28 Relevance Our model of embedded, long term customer partnerships is the cornerstone of our commercial offer, ensuring we are strategically relevant for our customers. Read more on page 30 Differentiation Our comprehensive capability set provides us with a distinctive and repeatable Greencore way of working, to ensure we exploit potential growth opportunities available to us. Read more on page 32 Certain statements made in this Annual Report are forward-looking. These represent expectations for the Group’s business, and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Group’s control. The Group has based these forward-looking statements on current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements may generally, but not always, be identified by the use of words such as ‘will’, ‘aims’, ‘anticipates’, ‘continue’, ‘could’, ‘should’, ‘expects’, ‘is expected to’, ‘may’, ‘estimates’, ‘believes’, ‘intends’, ‘projects’, ‘targets’, or the negative thereof, or similar expressions. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future and reflect the Group's current expectations and assumptions as to such future events and circumstances that may not prove accurate. A number of material factors could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this Annual Report. The Group expressly disclaims any obligation to publicly update or review these forward-looking statements other than as required by law. Our differentiators drive our strategy: People at the Core By embedding a safety culture, providing inspiring leadership and having engaging and effective teams, we ensure that people are at the core of our business. Sustainability Sustainability underpins all areas of our business from Sourcing with Integrity, to Making with Care and Feeding with Pride. Great Food Protecting food safety, leading on taste and winning on quality are all essential to our continued success. Excellence We strive for excellence in everything we do by building capability, driving efficiency and delivering value for all our stakeholders. FY20 has been a year like never before, when Greencore has shown true purpose. Together, we have focused on keeping our people safe, feeding the UK and protecting our business. In doing so, we have drawn on the strong culture and exceptional capabilities within our organisation and further deepened our relationships with our stakeholders. Read about our purpose and strategy overleaf In this report Strategic Report Financial Statements Financial highlights 1 Independent Auditor’s Report 126 Greencore at a glance 2 Group Income Statement 136 Our business model 12 Group Statement of Market trends 14 Comprehensive Income 137 Chairman’s statement 16 Group Statement of Financial Position 138 Chief Executive’s review 18 Group Statement of Cash Flows 139 Our Key Performance Indicators 22 Group Statement of Changes in Equity 140 Strategy in action 26 Notes to the Group Financial Statements 142 Operating and financial review 50 Company Statement of Financial Position 192 Risks and risk management 54 Company Statement of Changes in Equity 193 Group Executive Team 64 Notes to the Company Financial Statements 194 Directors’ Report Other Information Chair’s letter 66 Alternative Performance Measures 201 Board of Directors 68 Shareholder and other information IBC Board leadership and company purpose 70 Board activities and engagement with stakeholders 72 Division of responsibilities 82 Composition, succession and evaluation 84 Report of the Nomination and Governance Committee 86 Report of the Audit and Risk Committee 90 Report on Directors’ Remuneration 96 Other statutory disclosures 116 Statement of Directors’ Responsibilities 124 Please note the majority of imagery used in this report was taken before March 2020 and before COVID-19 restrictions came into effect. Strategic Report | Directors’ Report | Financial Statements 1 Financial highlights1 Revenue Group Operating Profit (Loss)/profit before taxation £1,264.7m £12.9m £(10.8)m (Reported: -12.5%) (FY19: £99.8m) (FY19: £56.4m) (Pro Forma: -14.3%) Basic Earnings per Share (Basic ‘EPS’) Adjusted Operating Profit Adjusted Profit Before Tax (2.6)p £32.5m £17.3m (FY19: 19.9p) (FY19: £105.5m) (FY19: £92.3m) Adjusted Earnings per Share (Adjusted ‘EPS’) Free Cash Flow Return on Invested Capital (‘ROIC’) 2.9p £(29.7)m 4.1% (FY19: 16.0p) (FY19: £54.9m) (FY19: 14.4%) 1 The Group uses Alternative Performance Measures (‘APMs’) which are non-IFRS measures to monitor the performance of its operations and of the Group as a whole. These APMs along with their definitions and reconciliations to IFRS measures are provided in the APMs section on pages 201 to 206. #foodheroes… 4 6 Taking care of our people. Looking after our supply chain by Sourcing with Integrity. 8 10 Maintaining Driving excellence customer trust and efficiency through creativity at every stage of and the highest the process. standards of food safety. 2 Greencore Group plc Annual Report and Financial Statements 2020 Greencore at a glance Where we operate Locations Dublin head office Food to go manufacturing Production sites We operate 13 manufacturing units across nine locations, including Distribution centres eight sandwich units, three salad units and two sushi units. Transport hubs Irish ingredients Other convenience manufacturing units Barlborough corporate services We operate eight manufacturing units across seven locations, comprising three chilled ready meal units, two chilled soup and sauce units, one chilled quiche unit, one ambient cooking sauces and pickles unit and one frozen Yorkshire Pudding unit. Distribution We have built a strong Direct to Store distribution operation comprising over 500 vehicles, four regional distribution centres Dublin head office and 14 transport hubs. Our distribution fleet delivers Greencore and third-party products to more than 10,000 small format stores throughout the UK every day. Irish ingredients The core activities of these businesses are importing and distributing animal feed and edible oils.1 Our customers We supply all of the major supermarkets in the UK. We also supply convenience and travel retail outlets, discounters, coffee shops, foodservice and other retailers. Some of our principal customers include: 1 In July 2020, the Group announced that it had entered into a conditional agreement to sell its interests in its molasses trading businesses to United Molasses Marketing (Ireland) Limited and United Molasses Marketing Limited. The transaction is subject to the approval of relevant anti-trust authorities which is ongoing. Strategic Report | Directors’ Report | Financial Statements 3 Sandwiches Sushi Salads Sandwiches and other food to go items Revenue per product (FY20) produced in FY20 619m 39% Chilled snacking Chilled ready meals produced 61% in FY20 116m Food to go categories Other convenience categories Jars of cooking sauces, dips, pickles and condiments produced in FY20 264m Chilled quiche Chilled ready meals Chilled soups and sauces Frozen Yorkshire Puddings Ambient cooking sauces and pickles 4 Greencore Group plc Annual Report and Financial Statements 2020 Shanique looks after our people Strategic Report | Directors’ Report | Financial Statements 5 #foodheroes Shanique King is a people person. Working in human resources, it is her passion to help her colleagues to thrive by supporting and caring for their needs and making sure they are safe at work. People at the Core We are a people focused business and people will always be at our core. Embedding a safety culture Health and safety is our priority, first and foremost, in every decision we make. Part of this means creating a culture that encourages our colleagues to make informed choices about their physical and emotional wellbeing. Providing inspiring leadership We believe that every colleague can inspire us in their actions and how they get things done. Giving time and energy, being inclusive Keeping our people safe continues to be and open and showing empathy and passion to our colleagues our number one priority as we navigate provides a path for development. COVID-19. From the outset, we implemented a number of important Building engaging and effective teams measures. These measures included: We take the time to get to know people in our teams, recognising strengths and helping each other to grow. Our teams thrive by • Wide-ranging social