Aker ASA Annual Report 2010
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Aker ASA Annual report 2010 Aker ASA annual report 2010 3 Contents 4 This is Aker 4 Aker in brief 5 Highlights 6 Long traditions of industrial development 8 Key performance indicators 9 Aker ASA and holding companies 10 Promoting a performance culture 11 Demonstrating corporate responsibility 12 Letter from the chairman 18 Letter from the president and CEO 20 Operations 20 Business activities 21 Industrial Holdings 29 Financial Investments 30 Funds 32 Board of directors’ report 40 Annual accounts 41 Aker group 98 Aker ASA 111 Aker ASA and holding companies 119 Share and shareholder information 119 Good dialogue 122 Analytical information 123 Corporate governance 123 Report on corporate governance Photo by the well known artist Tom Sandberg. 128 Board of directors Financial calendar 2011 130 Management 130 Other key personnel Annual General Meeting: 14 April 131 Contacts Interim report Q1 2011: 11 May Interim report Q2 2011: 17 August Interim report Q3 2011: 7 November 4 Aker ASA annual report 2010 This is Aker Aker in brief Aker ASA is an investment company that exercises active ownership. Aker is synonymous with industrial expertise ■ Financial Investments comprises cash, Net asset value (NAV) is a key perfor- Going forward, Aker’s value creation will and financial strength. As an active owner, receivables, and other assets of Aker mance indicator for Aker ASA. As of 31 De- be associated with portfolio modifications, our goal is to be a powerhouse in the devel- ASA (parent and holding companies) cember 2010, NAV amounted to NOK 18.4 adaptations and improvements at individual opment of strong companies. Aker drives – with the exception of industrial billion, compared with NOK 19.5 billion at companies, share price developments, and operational improvements, strategy and fi- investments in shares investments and the close of 2009. The company’s dividend overall market trends. nancing and executes industrial transactions. investments in funds. policy is to pay annual dividends of be- These capabilities create value for share- ■ Funds comprises shares in funds under tween two and four percent of NAV to com- Ownership structure holders, customers, employees, and society management by the three Aker-controlled pany shareholders. Aker was listed on the Oslo Stock Ex- in general. Aker organizes its business ac- companies: Converto Capital Management, change on 8 September 2004. Since listing, tivities in three sectors: Industrial Holdings, Oslo Asset Management, and Stockholm- Investment strategy the company’s shares have returned an Financial Investments, and Funds. based Norron Asset Management. Aker’s ownership interests are concen- average annual yield of 27 percent, includ- trated on the business sectors: Energy, En- ing dividends. In 2010, Aker ASA’s share ■ Industrial Holdings comprises Aker’s Size vironment, Fisheries & Marine Biotech, and price declined 13.3 percent. The company ownership interests in Aker Solutions, As of late February 2011, Aker is the largest Finance. These are key Norwegian indus- had 14 300 shareholders as of early 2011. Aker Drilling, Det norske oljeselskap, shareholder in eight stock-exchange-listed tries that are international in scope. Each Aker’s main shareholders are Anne Grete Aker Clean Carbon, and Aker BioMarine. companies. More than 22 000 people in Aker investment portfolio company is well Eidsvig and Kjell Inge Røkke, who through In each of these operating companies, over 30 countries are employed by these positioned to benefit from the growing de- their company TRG own 67.8 percent of Aker has an ownership agenda that companies. mand for sustainable production of energy the Aker stock. strengthens the businesses. and food. 1850 1900 1950 2000 Masa Yards Kværner 1853 1996 Peter Steenstrup Olaf A. Onsum Davy/John Brown/Trafalgar Kjell Inge Røkke Founded Aker in Founded Aker’s main 1841. Kværner in 1853. RGI owner since 1996. JM Johansen 1876 – Fisheries Norcem 1892 – Offshore and cement Aker 1841 1987 1996 2001 Aker ASA annual report 2010 5 This is Aker Highlights Aker Solutions more streamlined Aker BioMarine on fast track Aker has been a driving force in identifying and acting In 2010, Aker injected NOK 740 million in equity into Aker on structural opportunities for Aker Solutions’ business BioMarine. The biotechnology company’s sales are growing segments and units. Simplifying the enterprise’s organi- sharply. MSC environmental certification of Aker BioMa- zation provides greater transparency and hones opera- rine’s harvesting operations in Antarctic waters confirms tions to service future requirements of oil and gas com- that the company practices sustainable krill harvesting. panies. In 2010, Aker BioMarine realized key underlying value in its In 2010, Aker Solutions sold non-core businesses and Trygg Pharma unit via a 50/50 partnership with the private other assets for NOK 7 billion. Aker Solutions is being equity firm Lindsay Goldberg. Trygg Pharma subsequently A more closely focused engineering, streamlined as an engineering, technology and services Growing demand for omega-3 ingre- acquired Epax, one of the world’s leading producers of technology, and services company. company; its busy construction yards will be spun off as dients derived from Antarctic krill. high-concentrate fish oils. Macro drivers support a contin- a separate exchange-listed EPC company. ued strong growth trajectory for health products in general and omega-3 based ingredients in particular. Aker Drilling targets growth markets Solid foundation for value growth Aker Drilling’s rigs delivered excellent, high up-time op- Aker has built a sound foundation for continued value eration in 2010. In February 2011, Aker reduced its growth. Aker’s net asset value was NOK 18.4 billion before ownership in Aker Drilling from 100 percent to 43.49 dividend allocations as of 31 December 2010. percent, following a share issue and listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The drilling company is pursuing new Aker has further developed its role as an equity investor. Ac- global opportunities at deepwater fields and in harsh- cording to Kjell Inge Røkke, Aker ASA’s majority shareholder weather regions. These offshore markets are experi- and board chairman, the company has to look back to 2004 encing strong growth. to find a single year in which, in real terms, greater value was created than in 2010. In his letter to shareholders on page 12 Targeting growth markets: Drilling in Aker Drilling is being further developed as an independ- Aker has taken great strides in further of this report, Mr. Røkke writes: “In the past year, fundamen- harsh-weather and deepwater off- ent company, with Aker as a significant minority share- developing its role as a proactive tal value creation has occurred at Aker that has yet to be ex- shore fields. holder. After completing the corporate refinancing and owner and equity investor. pressed in its share price.” share issue, Aker Drilling repaid its USD 488 million loan from Aker in the first quarter of 2011. 6 Aker ASA annual report 2010 This is Aker Long traditions of industrial development Aker will be 170 years old in 2011. Aker’s history dates back to 1841, when its first mechanical workshop was established on the banks of the river Akerselva in Norway’s capital. Nature has shaped Norway, its industry, tinues to characterize Aker and the indus- and people. Proximity to the ocean and trial companies in which Aker is the leading exploitation of natural resources have been owner. key to Aker’s industrial development over three centuries. Aker is “Made by Norway.” From first oil on the Norwegian In the company’s early years, Aker’s continental shelf workshop staff made components for ma- In the late 1960s, Aker’s businesses refo- chinery and equipment. Aker’s initial clients cused on the emerging North Sea oil and were the iron and non-ferrous metals indus- gas industry. Aker was part of Norway’s tries and shipping. In the heydays of the great oil adventure when the very first oil steam engine, Aker supplied companies was struck and produced on the Norwe- engaged in timber, wood and pulp, coal, gian continental shelf. hydropower, fisheries, and shipping. In 1987, Aker merged with Norcem, a In rebuilding the country after the Sec- Norway-based international cement and ond World War (1939-1945), constructive construction materials group that also had cooperation between Aker employees’ significant offshore-industry activities. The elected representatives, skilled workers, cement and construction materials busi- and management developed. The legend- ness was later spun off into a separate ary union leader Ragnar Kalheim, who company, and sold in 1999. worked at Aker mek. Verksted (Nyland Vest) from 1949 until his death in 1974, pio- Røkke at the helm neered these efforts. A socialist, Mr. Kal- Since the mid-1990s, entrepreneur and in- heim was a driver for an innovative wage dustrialist Kjell Inge Røkke has been Aker’s agreement that committed workshop union main shareholder and a driving force in the members to increase productivity in return company’s development. Mr. Røkke for the right to negotiate labor’s share of launched his business career in 1982 when profits. This was a groundbreaking initiative he purchased a 69-foot trawler in the in Norwegian industry. United States. From this modest beginning, Close interaction between employees, Røkke built a leading global fisheries busi- corporate owners, and society at large con- ness based on harvesting and ocean-going ”In the company’s early years, Aker’s workshop staff made components for machinery and equipment.” Aker ASA annual report 2010 7 This is Aker ”In 2010, Aker implemented measures that are strengthening the companies in its portfolio.” processing of white fish. Success in this all played important roles – enabled field enabled him to invest in other busi- Kværner to survive, with Aker as its largest nesses, mainly in the United States and shareholder.