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ANSELL LIMITED — AGM Information 2015
Oct 7, 2015
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Ansell Limited A.B.N. 89 004 085 330 Level 3, 678 Victoria Street Richmond, Victoria 3121, Australia GPO Box 772H Melbourne Victoria 3001, Australia Telephone (+613) 9270 7270 Facsimile (+613) 9270 7300 www.ansell.com
8 October 2015
Company Announcements Office Australian Securities Exchange Limited Level 4, Exchange Centre 20 Bridge Street SYDNEY NSW 2000
Dear Sir/Madam
Chairman’s Address & CEO Presentation - 2015 AGM
The address to be given by the Chairman and the presentation to be made by the Chief Executive Officer at Ansell Limited’s Annual General Meeting, to be held today, are attached.
Yours sincerely
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Alistair Grant Company Secretary Ansell Limited Tel: +61 3 9270 7125 Email: [email protected]
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CHAIRMAN’S ADDRESS
A history of innovation
Ansell is a company born out of innovation that remains committed to research, invention and continuous improvement.
Our Gammex sterile surgical gloves typify this. This year was the 50[th] anniversary of Gammex. Gammex was one of the world’s first disposable gamma-sterilised surgical gloves and was invented by this company, operating out of Melbourne. It is now sold throughout the world, continues to grow and has set industry standards for decades, as it still does today.
Ansell’s current product portfolio includes many other industry leading products such as:
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silver-lined burn treatment gloves and sleeves;
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solutions for safety in the operating room;
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low-allergenic latex surgical gloves;
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gloves to assist with sweat management;
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gloves that have an optimal sense of touch and grip for specific tasks;
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chemical resistant clothing;
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cut resistant yarns and chemical resistant glove coatings;
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variable weave tension across the gloves designed to reduce worker hand fatigue; as well as
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anti-viral coated condoms and condoms made with polyisoprene synthetic latex that give superior comfort and feel.
These are just a few of the innovative features built into products made by Ansell for the comfort, safety and protection of workers and consumers throughout the world.
2015 Results
I would now like to turn to the present state of the business. When you consider the degree of economic and political turbulence that the world has experienced in the last year, our Ansell management team has delivered very strong financial results through continued focus on excellence in implementation of our strategic and operational plans.
In the 2015 financial year, our sales increased by 3.5 per cent to US$1.645 billion, generating a profit before interest and tax (EBIT) of US$245 million, a near on 19% increase over the underlying result in 2014. Profit attributable to shareholders also significantly increased to US$188 million, 19.5% higher than the underlying profit for the prior year.
Together with solid cash flow and a strong balance sheet, these are excellent financial results by any measure, allowing your board to declare a dividend increase for the twelfth year in succession. The final dividend was US 23 cents per share bringing total dividends for the year to US 43 cents, a 10% increase compared to 2014.
Nonetheless, since the release of our full-year financial results, we have seen around a 35% drop in our share price. At the basic level the market has reacted to the impact of currency exchange variations which we have forecast to have a significant impact on our 2016 financial results. Although these foreign exchange impacts were building and had been highlighted at the half year, they obviously were underestimated by some in the market. The outcome has seen some selling pressure on the Company’s share price and whilst the Board and management team take no pleasure in this, broader market sentiment has also had an impact. In this regard, Ansell is not alone with the Company’s share price since
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announcement of the full year results in August performing broadly in line relative to falls in the ASX 200 and ASX 200 Healthcare indices of which Ansell is a part.
The Board views its role as the custodian of shareholder value very seriously and believe the best path forward is to continue to focus on excellence in the implementation of our strategies with the resultant further creation of underlying earnings growth.
This partly explains the decision of the Board to reinstate a buyback programme. Buybacks have long been a component of Ansell’s capital management strategy and while we continue to be active in pursuit of several acquisition targets, ongoing good cashflow generation and the recent fall in the share price makes this a good time to restart a buyback. We also believe that it demonstrates our sincerity and our confidence in the long-term value of Ansell shares.
Outlook
As stated, your Board believe in the long-term value of Ansell shares. So I would like to address the Board’s view with respect to the present economic conditions in which our company operates and, in doing so, provide you with some of our thoughts regarding the years ahead.
Ansell has a strong underlying business with the benefit of diversified operations generating significant profits and cash flows. The core business is expected to maintain growth momentum from the performance of core brand investments, productivity and restructuring initiatives, as well as increased contributions from recent acquisitions. We have full confidence in the strategies which are presented by management and approved by the Board for the coming period.
Notwithstanding this, Ansell reports its financial results in US dollars, being the main currency in which we do business throughout the world. A significant proportion of our revenue and costs are not US dollar denominated and are in the prevailing local currencies where we operate. This year, the US dollar strengthened significantly against the other currencies in which we make sales and was only slightly stronger or neutral against those currencies in which we incur costs of manufacture. So that is a downward pressure on sales revenue, without a countervailing pressure on costs. As a result, there is a negative drag on our non-US dollar earnings.
In the short term we have been able to partially offset this with our “currency hedging program” but in the current economic climate, we foresee this negative drag remaining throughout the current year and a reducing offset as our currency hedges run off. This means that our financial results will continue to be adversely affected in 2016 by foreign exchange translations outside our control, despite the success of our strategic and operational plans generating underlying growth in the business.
Executive remuneration
You would also have read a letter published by the Board in September, which outlined proposed changes to our remuneration for executive management. As a Board, one of our key objectives is to ensure that we attract and retain the management talent required to run the company and to have the interests of both shareholders and management aligned. This has historically been achieved in two ways: Firstly, by having a significant proportion of management remuneration at-risk. Second, through weighting senior management longerterm incentive payments to shares (which must be held long-term) rather than cash. As you know, our executive management and board have mandatory share-holding targets - which,
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once achieved, must be held until retirement. The progress made by individuals toward their share holding targets are disclosed in our Annual Report.
On reviewing our remuneration programs during the current year it became clear to the Human Resources (HR) Committee that our long-term incentive plans would not vest unless a very significant and multi-year adjustment was made for the currency impacts that were beyond management control.
It was judged that such large adjustments would compromise the scheme’s integrity. However, the inability of the scheme to deliver any reward would leave management unrewarded for the significant underlying growth being achieved and that is expected to be achieved in our forward plans. In addition the failure to award any incentive based stock awards would limit senior management’s ability to accumulate stock holdings to meet their mandatory share-holding targets.
I want to clarify that, in the past, the management has borne the outcomes of both FX benefits and FX losses in relation to their incentives. Typically, however, such movements were modest and revenue currency movements tended to be offset by cost currency movements. As already mentioned the FY15 year and the FY16 guidance have seen a very large devaluation of the revenue currencies without the corresponding offset of the cost currencies, resulting in a very material hit on operational earnings. Although hedging assisted in the translation to profit in FY15 this will not be the case in FY16.
Faced with these exceptional circumstances, the HR Committee recommended to the Board that it was best to cancel the F’14 Long Term Incentive (LTI) scheme and enhance the F’16 Short Term Incentive (STI) with a share based reward of up to half the value of the F’14 LTI program. Any shares awarded under this enhanced STI would be tested against targets including sales and profitability and with a Return On Equity (ROE) gateway condition. Any shares awarded under this scheme would be bought on-market and have to be held under the requirements of the mandatory share-holding targets by senior executives or, for all other management, at least two-years.
Furthermore, given the structural problems encountered with our current remuneration programs – and some shareholder feedback regarding concern over the LTI being only a three year scheme with an ROE gateway and the award quantum being driven by growth in EPS – the Board has accepted a recommendation from the HR Committee to totally review and revise our remuneration policy and announce this during the first half of calendar 2016.
We also recommended to our shareholders for approval at the AGM, an addition to the remuneration package for our Managing Director and CEO, Magnus Nicolin in the form of options over Ansell shares. This was based on the advice of our independent consultants, AON Hewitt, that Magnus was significantly below market in the long-term incentive component of his remuneration package.
As a Board, we believe it is important to ensure that there is fair and reasonable compensation for our management team which aligns management and shareholder interest. We felt that our proposed changes were appropriate to allow for the necessary adjustments to ensure that our CEO's compensation aligned with our published policy and to take account of the unusual currency movements that have arisen for the FY16 operating year and that are clearly outside the control of our management team.
However, we acknowledge, as reflected in the voting results, that there was not a clear consensus among shareholders to support the direction we chose to recommend. As a consequence, we, as the Board, accept the feedback that we have been provided and we will reflect upon it.
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Looking forward from here it is pleasing to note the positive and active participation of a significant number of our major shareholding groups in preliminary discussions over the most appropriate shape of our future remuneration policy and practices. We will be engaging in further discussions on the details of our future policy over the coming months and aim to have a final draft of the new policy and a transition plan ready for broad consultation in early 2016. Our objective is to have the policy and its application understood and generally accepted by stakeholders and management well ahead of commencing the transition period on 1 July 2016. We look forward to reporting a favourable outcome on these remuneration matters when we meet at the AGM in October 2016.
Conclusion
We would like to thank our shareholders again for their ongoing support of the company and we look forward to another good year of sustainable and profitable underlying growth momentum. The Board of Ansell Limited believes that the strategies which management are implementing will allow the company to continue to enjoy sound growth well into the future.
I now invite your Chief Executive Officer, Magnus Nicolin, to provide more detailed comment on the results for the 2015 financial year and the priorities and outlook for the current year.
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ANSELL LIMITED Annual General Meeting – CEO Report Magnus Nicolin – Chief Executive Officer 8 October 2015
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Disclaimer
The following presentation has been prepared by Ansell Limited for information purposes only. The presentation may contain forward looking statements or statements of opinion
No representation or warranty is made regarding the accuracy, completeness or reliability of the forward looking statements or opinion or the assumptions on which either are based. All such information is, by its nature, subject to significant uncertainties outside of the control of the company
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the company and its officers do not accept any liability for any loss arising from the use of the information contained in this presentation
The information included in this presentation is not investment or financial product advice. Before making any investment decision, you should seek appropriate financial advice, which may take into account your particular investment needs, objectives and financial circumstances. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance
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Contents
- Business Overview
- GBU & Region Performance
- Trading Update & Guidance
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SECTION 1 Business Overview
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1. BUSINESS OVERVIEW
F’15
A Year of Integration and Continued Performance
US Dollars used in all slides unless otherwise specified
| F’14 | F’15 | Sales Growth at constant |
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| Reported | Underlying1 | Reported | % Change3 | currency4 | ||
| Sales ($M) | 1,590 | 1,590 | 1,645 | +3.5% | +9.3% | |
| EBIT ($M) | 84 | 207 | 2452 | +18.8% | ||
| PA ($M) | 42 | 157 | 188 | +19.5% | ||
| EPS (¢) | 29.3 | 110.0 | 122.5 | +11.4% | ||
| Free Cash ($M) | 178 | 178 | 137 | -22.8% | ||
| Dividend | US39¢ | US43¢ | +10.3% |
Notes:
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F’14 Underlying numbers exclude the $123m pre tax one-off restructuring charge announced on 30 June, 2014 and in management’s view provides a better comparison to future results.
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F’15 includes previously announced $17.8m pre-tax gain on sale of Shah Alam offset by pre-tax $17.4m restructuring charge.
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% movement measured against F’14 Underlying numbers
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Constant currency compares F’15 results to F’14 results restated at F’15 average exchange rates
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1. BUSINESS OVERVIEW
F’15
Ongoing Strong Financial Performance Continues
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$1,645 CAGR’S % 2008-
$1,590 2015 HIGHLIGHTS
$245
$1,373 • Acquisitions and Growth
$1,255 $207 Sales 5.6% brands [1 ] driving Sales
$1,207
Growth
$1,116
$1,086
$1,003 $171
$153
$137 • EBIT up by 2x since 2010, 4
$127 EBIT 12.0%
122.5¢ yrs of EBIT Margin Growth
$111 $107 106.5₵ 110.0₵
101.4₵
91.6₵
14.8%
79.7₵ 13.0%
66.1₵ 66.3₵ 12.2% 12.4% • 7 Consecutive Years of EPS
EPS 9.2%
11.4% Growth [2]
9.9% 10.7% 11.7%
F08 F09 F10 F11 F12 F13 F14 F15
Sales ($m) EPS (₵) EBIT ($m) EBIT Margin (%)
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Notes:
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Growth brands defined on GBU Performance pages 15,17,19 and 21
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F’14 EBIT and EPS on underlying basis excluding $123m pre-tax one-off restructuring costs
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1. BUSINESS OVERVIEW
F’15
FX – Sharp Decline In Revenue Currencies Reducing Sales in US$ Reporting Currency
| Financial Impact of Currency Moves Comparing F’14 to F’15 and 4Q’15 |
Financial Impact of Currency Moves Comparing F’14 to F’15 and 4Q’15 |
Financial Impact of Currency Moves Comparing F’14 to F’15 and 4Q’15 |
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| Variance in Weighted Average Revenue Currency |
Annualized Impact to Revenue |
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| F’15 vs F’14 | 5%� | ~$75m |
| 4Q’15 vs F’14 | 8%� | ~$130m |
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REVENUE CURRENCIES
Movement relative to USD
F'11 F'12 F'13 F'14 F'15 4Q'15
10.0%
5.0%
0.0%
-5.0%
-10.0%
-15.0%
-20.0%
-25.0%
-30.0%
EUR CAD AUD GBP
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Revenue Mix by Major Revenue Currency
| US | 51% |
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| Euro | 25% |
| AUD | 5% |
| GBP | 4% |
• Decline in EUR, AUD, CAD results in lower reported US$ revenue
• If 4Q’15 Average FX Rates sustained, this would result in a $130m revenue reduction in F’16 vs F’14
• This partially offset by some decline in some cost currencies,
• Overall FX Impacts on EBIT $50m unfavorable at 4Q’15 rates vs F’14
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1. BUSINESS OVERVIEW
F’15
Strategies to Drive Ansell forward
Driving Growth, Profitability & Cash Flow and Enabling Value Creation Through Capital Deployment.
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ORGANIC GROWTH PROFITABILITY & CASHFLOW CAPITAL DEPLOYMENT
Innovate & grow new Leverage core processes for High return capex enabling
product sales improved customer service growth and productivity
Grow share in emerging In sourcing key materials and
Strategic, disciplined M&A
markets technology
Continued dividend growth
Build strong global brands Lean manufacturing
Develop stronger channel Rationalising Brands, SKUs,
partnerships in focus verticals Legal entities, Sites
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1. BUSINESS OVERVIEW
F’15 Ansell’s Business Portfolio Significantly Strengthened: Driving Value Creation
| People & Process | Brands | Innovation | M&A | Manufacturing |
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| • > 9,000 employees trained on lean • Global salesforce coverage improved • 5 major systems implementations in F’15 |
• Best Brands in Industry • All growing >5% per annum and gaining market share • New Emerging Market Brands growing fast |
• 3 new R&D centers • Material Science Innovation (Intercept, Sensoprene) • Over 100 new products & innovations launched in 3 years. |
• 10 acquisitions in 4 years, of which 7 performing ahead of expectation • Microgard ($96m) & Hands International ($20.2m) completed in F’15 |
• Increased capex spend primarily on productivity investments with strong returns • Creating new manufacturing capability |
| • Strengthened, smaller leadership team |
• Rationalised non core brands and products |
• R&D co-located with manufacturing |
• Exited Military |
• Closing under-utilised sites. |
| ~~•Reduced refocused~~ | ||||
| • Shared services • Eliminating legacy systems |
• Moving to fewer, bigger product launches |
Retail position |
• Automation & energy efficiency gains |
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1. BUSINESS OVERVIEW
Portfolio Significantly Strengthened And Positioned For Growth
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GROWTH BRAND SALES EMERGING MARKET SALES NEW PRODUCT SALES
$M $M $M
$1,200 $500 $200
$1,000
$400 $160
$800
$300 $120
$600
$904 $200 $394 $80 $172
$400
$112
$100 $207 $40
$200 $416
$0 $0 $0
F'10 F'15 F'10 F'15 F'10 F'15
• Ansell’s powerful portfolio of Growth • Acquisitions and organic growth have • New Product Sales up over 50% over 5
brands now accounts for more than half strengthened EM position, growing years
of sales globally (up from 34% in F’10). ahead of company average to 24% of
• Industrial New Products delivered 35%
sales
• Since F10, this portfolio has grown on growth in F’15
average 10% per annum (excluding
• Intercept Launch on pace to be most
acquisition effects)
successful yet
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1. BUSINESS OVERVIEW
F’15 Aquisition Strategy On Target
Acquisitions Driven by Clear Strategic Priorities
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Economies
of Scale
Core
New
Adjacencies
PSP
New Capability Geographic
or Technology Expansion
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Financial Hurdles Include:
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ROCE Targeted to Exceed WACC by Yr 3
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Improve to ~1.5x WACC in a further 2-3 years
OVERALL RETURNS TRACKING WELL Investment[1] ($m) F15 (% ROCE) Total[2] $891 8%
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Core acquisitions ahead of expectations to date and quickly generating ROCE>WACC
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BSSI Achieving ROCE>WACC after 18 months
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Returns on adjacencies improving rapidly
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New acquisitions (Hands, Microgard) off to good start vs business case
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Investment net of Marigold brand divestment.
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Total excludes partial year acquisitions of Hands and Microgard
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SECTION 2 GBU Performance
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2. GBU PERFORMANCE
F’15 Leading Global Market Shares and Balanced Portfolio Providing Growth Potential
| Sales $m (% of Ansell) |
INDUSTRIAL | SINGLE USE | MEDICAL | SEXUAL WELLNESS |
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| 669 41% |
312 19% |
447 27% |
217 13% |
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| EBIT Margin1 (EBIT % of Ansell) |
13.9% 37% |
19.1% 24% |
15.8% 28% |
12.0% 11% |
| Global market position vs competitor |
#1 in hand protection >2X no.2 player |
#1 in differentiated verticals 3X no.2 player |
#1 in surgical 1.1X no. 2 player |
#2 in branded condoms |
| Top Brand Sales |
HyFlex® >$200m +6% |
Microflex® >$170M +4% |
Gammex® >$125m + 7% |
SKYN® +16% |
| Why Ansell is winning |
• High performance • Uniquely comfortable • Broadest range • User productivity • Leveraging Guardian • Global coverage |
• Efficient supply chain • Product performance • Products tailored to end user needs • Strong in niche markets |
• Clinically relevant technologies • Comfort & protection • Broadest synthetic surgical range • Global coverage |
• 1st to market with superior PI platform • Emerging market coverage |
Notes: 1. Before restructuring charges
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2. GBU PERFORMANCE
F’15 Industrial GBU Changing the Game
5 STRATEGIC & TRANSFORMATIVE ACQUISITIONS CONSOLIDATED GLOVE CATEGORY SHARE, ENABLED NEXT GENERATION INNOVATION AND EXPANDED TO NEW SEGMENTS
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POWERFUL FAMILY OF GROWTH BRANDS
End user awareness (unaided & #1 aided) for both Ansell & HyFlex[®] against competitive brands
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F’15 BODY PROTECTION SALES EXCEED $100m
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PRODUCTS LAUNCHED with GROUND BREAKING technology
Early traction with one of the world’s largest mining companies, and two of the top 10 automotive companies now converting to HyFlex[®] styles with INTERCEPT[®] cut protection technology,
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35% [+] 4.03.0
GROWTH IN NEW
2.0
PRODUCTS SALES
1.0
Intercept [®] adds to an
already strong new 0.0
product portfolio Jul-13 Sep-13 Nov-13 Jan-14 Mar-14 May-14 Jul-14 Sep-14 Nov-14 Jan-15 Mar-15 May-15 Jul-15 Sep-15 Nov-15 Jan-16 Mar-16 May-16
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2. GBU PERFORMANCE
F’15
SU GBU Poised For Global Expansion
GLOBAL CATEGORY LEADER 3X
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larger than next
closest competitor
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+7% Life Sciences
global growth
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+8% AutomotiveAftermarket
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6%
Average Growth ROW
F’15
Global Growth
F’14
Brand Sales
(79% of business)
North
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Microflex[®] Products launched outside North America
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2. GBU PERFORMANCE
F’15 Medical GBU Historic Innovation & New Segment Growth
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INNOVATIVE SAFETY
83% Growth In Next Generation GAMMEX [®] SENSOPRENE SOLUTIONS FOR MAXIMUM
PERFORMANCE AND
PEACE OF MIND.
ANSELL INTRODUCES NEW
SMART PACK PACKAGING
15%
STRONG HSS
SEGMENT CAGR
OVER THE PAST
TWO YEARS
F'13 F'14 F'15
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2. GBU PERFORMANCE
F’15
Sexual Wellness is back to healthy growth: Organic Sales Up 6%
GROWING BRAND AWARENESS & USAGE
NON-LATEX CONDOM #1 ACROSS THE WORLD
SKYN[®] LUBRICANT LAUNCH IN KEY MARKETS
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10 MARKETS WHERE WE LAUNCHED SKYN[®] ELITE
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REVITALISING LATEX BRANDS GLOBALLY JISSBON[®] SALES 21% GROWTH IN CHINA
LAUNCH OF NEW VARIANTS & PACK DESIGNS
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SECTION 3 F’16 Outlook
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3. F’16 OUTLOOK
F’16 OUTLOOK EPS Guidance Maintained
DEVELOPMENTS
1. Global economic conditions remain challenging
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Currency volatility challenging to growth in some Emerging Markets
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Developed market conditions remain uncertain
2. Q1 sales approx 1% lower vs last year at constant currency
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Industrial – Hyflex sales robust, Intercept on track to be most successful recent product launch. Microgard & Hands contributing approx 2% to growth.
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Medical – Synthetic product line currently capacity constrained. Plant performance is limiting product availability ahead of new capacity coming on stream end of fiscal year
3. Recent FX trends more favorable
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Moderately Stronger Euro – offset by weakness in other revenue currencies
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Weakening of cost currencies – favorable if sustained
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Limited F’16 Impact – as offset by hedge position within the year
4. US$ 100m share buyback
- Commenced 15 September – to date 425k shares purchased at A$19.40 avg price
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