YIT in Brief 2018 President and CEO’S Review
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YIT in brief 2018 President and CEO’s review YIT and Lemminkäinen merged at the beginning of February to which is the development and implementation of self-de- create the new YIT. In addition to focusing on our actual business veloped projects. The strategic priorities, sources of growth and structural profitability are urban development operations, we allocated significant resources to the brisk integra- and non-cyclical businesses. To execute our strategy and tion of the companies and building the foundation for the new YIT. enhance our progress in our chosen priorities, we also Establishing a common corporate culture was a priority launched three development programmes: Performance, that took up much of my time personally and the same Customer Focus and Green Growth. can be said for the Group Management Team as a whole. One concrete outcome of the many discussions we In the Housing Finland and CEE segment, Business premises had throughout our operating area was the creation of segment and Partnership properties segment, self-developed the company’s shared values and leadership principles, projects and their successful sale brought in the lion’s share of which were published in October. They will guide our ef- the segments’ revenue and profit, and also the entire Group’s forts to strengthen our common culture in areas such as profit in 2018. The Infrastructure projects and Housing occupational safety, quality, performance and participato- Russia segments posted a weak result, and the Paving ry leadership this year. segment’s result was modest. There were, however, several successes within these segments. We enter Our initial approximation of the total quantifiable cost sav- the new year with confidence with regard to these ings derived from the merger, or synergies, turned out segments as well, having implemented a large to be an underestimation. The synergies began to be number of measures, starting in early 2018, to reflected in the Group’s financial performance in 2018 improve our profit performance in these areas. in line with the previously set goals. We adjusted our In addition to the measures we have taken, our previous estimate of synergies in excess of EUR 40 robust and healthier order backlog and strong million to EUR 45–50 million by the end of 2020. financial position give us a solid foundation for Furthermore, the sharing of best practices and the new year. expertise creates benefits that will be gradually reflected in improved competitiveness and proj- I would like to take this opportunity to ect-specific profitability. thank our customers for their trust and cooperation, as well as our personnel and In September, we announced our new partners for their commitment to achieving strategy for 2019–2021, the target of which our goals. is to improve profitability and to strengthen financial stability. The core of the strategy is urban development and it is built on the foundation of YIT’s key strength, Kari Kauniskangas 2 | YIT in brief 2018 President and CEO GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF REVENUE EUR million, 2018 YIT in brief SCANDINAVIA Revenue: 333 YIT IS THE LARGEST FINNISH AND SIGNIFICANT Personnel: 757 NORTH EUROPEAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY. CEE COUNTRIES Revenue: 164 We develop and build apartments and living Personnel: 290 services, business premises and entire areas. We FINLAND are also specialised in demanding infrastructure FINLAND construction and paving. Together with our cus- Revenue: 2,578 NORWAY tomers, we create more functional, more attractive Personnel: 5,034 SWEDEN RUSSIA and more sustainable cities and environments. ESTONIA RUSSIA YIT employs nearly 10,000 professionals in Revenue: 314 LATVIA DENMARK 11 countries: Finland, Russia, Scandinavia, the Personnel: 1,740 LITHUANIA Baltic States, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. The new YIT was born when over BALTIC 100-year-old YIT Corporation and Lemminkäinen COUNTRIES POLAND Corporation merged on February 1, 2018. Our Revenue: 300 pro forma revenue for 2018 was approximately Personnel: 1,249 CZECH EUR 3.8 billion. YIT Corporation's share is listed REPUBLIC SLOVAKIA on Nasdaq Helsinki Oy. Paving Infrastructure Business projects premises Partnership Housing properties 3 | YIT in brief 2018 REVENUE* NET PROMOTER SCORE (NPS) ADJUSTED OPERATING PROFIT* 3.8 52% 134.5 EUR billion in 2018 scale: -100%–100% EUR million in 2018 EMPLOYEES ACCIDENT FREQUENCY ORDER BACKLOG DIVIDEND PROPOSAL 10,000 9.7 4.4 EUR 0.27 Key figures in 11 countries accidents per one million EUR billion at the per share hours worked end of the period * Pro forma REVENUE BY BUSINESS IDEA, EUR MILLION REVENUE BY SEGMENT, EUR MILLION REVENUE BY GEOGRAPHICAL AREA Urban develop- Housing Finland Finland ment 1,855 and CEE 1,158 70% Non-cyclical Housing Russia businesses 921 Russia 274 9% Tender-based Infrastructure Baltic countries: contracting 1,037 projects 612 8% Paving 723 Scandinavia 9% Business premises CEE and Partnership 4% properties 1,045 Integration progressed in line with targets The parent companies YIT Corporation and functions requiring mergers in Scandinavia and created the conditions for the merger of subsidiaries, Lemminkäinen Corporation merged on February the CEE countriers. which also enables the harmonisation of the terms of 1, 2018. The new YIT is the largest Finnish employment and employee benefits. Going forward, A large group of our personnel representing various the integration work will be incorporated into the and significant North European construction businesses, functions and operating countries have Performance development programme and our day- company, with nearly 10,000 employees and participated in the development of the operating to-day operations. operations in 11 countries. methods of the new YIT. The integration has also been guided by our new strategy and the Group’s We have measured our integration performance in Following the merger, we began the process of shared values and leadership principles. They create four areas: satisfied customers; employee satis- organising into the new YIT. Our business in the a strong foundation for developing the operating faction; smooth operations during the integration various countries of operation continued in 2018 methods of the new YIT. process for our personnel, customers, partners and under the YIT brand, but in the name of the subsid- stakeholders; and the achievement of the targeted iaries carried over from YIT and Lemminkäinen in a The focus of the integration effort has been on estab- synergies. The success of the integration measures legal sense. For Finland, Estonia and Lithuania, the lishing a smooth operating environment and operat- during the past year was in line with our targets. We mergers of subsidiaries took place at the turn of the ing conditions. We have harmonised operations and have adjusted the estimate of overall synergies to year 2018–2019, with Latvia and Russia to follow developed common operating methods, combined EUR 45–50 million annually by the end of 2020. in the first half of 2019. There were no overlapping online and system environments and reporting, and MAIN SOURCES OF SYNERGIES Changes in operating model, eliminating overlap Facilities IT systems Other 5 | YIT in brief 2018 STRATEGY Performance through cycles More life in sustainable cities Together with our highly skilled personnel, our WE HAVE TWO STRATEGIC PRIORITIES THE FOUR CORNERSTONES vision is to bring more life in sustainable cities. We seek growth and the structural improvement OF YIT’S SUCCESS of profitability through our strategic priorities. The target of YIT’s strategy is to improve profit- 1. Top performance is pursued through the metic- ulous implementation of our integration plan and ability and to strengthen financial stability. • Urban development is focused on demanding the improvement of productivity at sites. urban development projects and complex External factors, or megatrends, have a signif- turnkey contracts or cooperative projects that 2. Capital efficiency is sought by reducing net icant impact on our operations and strategic require versatile competencies and strong working capital in specific businesses, selling choices. Urbanisation is continuing and people expertise in project management. Effective slow moving assets, reducing the risk level and are moving to growth centres. Urban struc- cooperation and the customer experience are capital employed of the Group’s business in tures are becoming concentrated around public particularly significant in these types of proj- Russia and by further developing the business transport. Digitalisation enables us to improve ects. In addition, the added value we create model. the customer experience and enhance produc- for customers and profitability benefits are at tivity. Sustainable development is influenced by their highest in these projects. 3. We achieve success with customers and part- people’s changing attitudes as well as legislation. ners. Better customer insight, the use of data, conceptualisation and active daily customer The circular economy is growing and the demand • Non-cyclical businesses are based on long- work enable us to improve the customer expe- for services is increasing. term service contracts and lease agreements rience. By collaborating with our partners, we as well as on stable or increasing demand. increase innovation, speed and financing. Paving, the excavation of construction WE ENGAGE IN COMPETITIVE BIDDING FOR CONSTRUC- aggregates, road maintenance, renovation 4. Happy people gravitate towards working com- TION CONTRACTS