Earnings Release • Apr 29, 2015
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www.clasquinfinance.com Financial press release
Lyon 29 April 2015 (after market closure)
| Q1 2015 | Q1 2014 | Change at current exchange rate |
Change at constant exchange rate |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CONSOLIDATED (unaudited) | ||||
| Number of shipments * | 43,057 | 38,343 | 12.3% | 12.3% |
| Sales (€m) ** | 56.0 | 46.5 | 20.4% | 13.7% |
| Gross profit (€m) | 13.3 | 11.1 | 19.8% | 14.2% |
*Excluding Gueppe-Clasquin, a subsidiary (70% ownership) specialised in road haulage, freighting and logistics.
**Note: Sales is not a relevant indicator for assessingactivity in our business, because it is greatly impacted by changing sea and air freight rates, fuel surcharges, exchange rates (especially versus the \$), etc. Variations in the number of shipments, the volumes shipped and—in terms of the Group's finances—gross profit are relevant indicators.
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| NUMBER OF SHIPMENTS | VOLUMES | GROSS PROFIT (in €m) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At current exchange rate |
Q1 2015 | Q1 2014 | Chg Q1 2015/ Q1 2014 |
Q1 2015 | Q1 2014 | Chg Q1 2015/ Q1 2014 |
Q1 2015 | Q1 2014 | Chg Q1 2015/ Q1 2014 |
| Sea freight | 23,854 | 20,824 | + 14.6% | 27,515 TEUs* | 24,101 TEUs* | + 14.2% | 6.4 | 4.9 | + 30.7% |
| Air freight | 15,831 | 14,242 | + 11.2% | 10,272 T** | 9,946 T** | + 3.3% | 4.3 | 3.4 | + 26.8% |
| Others | 3,372 | 3,277 | + 2.9% | 0.7 | 0.7 | - 5.1% | |||
| TOTAL OVERSEAS ACTIVITY |
43,057 | 38,343 | + 12.3% | 11.4 | 9.0 | + 26.3% | |||
| Log System | 0.6 | 0.6 | - 2.0% | ||||||
| Gueppe-Clasquin | 1.6 | 1.8 | - 7.3% | ||||||
| Consolidation entries | - 0.4 | - 0.3 | NS | ||||||
| TOTAL CONSOLIDATED |
13.3 | 11.1 | + 19.8% |
* Twenty foot Equivalent Units ** Tons
Since 31 March 2015 CLASQUIN has held 80% of the capital in FINANCIERE LCI, a company which acquired 100% of the capital in LCI INTERNATIONAL (Lafont-Chavent International).
LCI INTERNATIONAL is a company specialising in freight forwarding between France, Northern Africa, Turkey and Bulgaria.
LCI INTERNATIONAL has 3 sites in France (Villefranche sur Saône (69), La Crèche (79) and Vitrolles (13)) and 3 subsidiaries and interests in Tunisia.
This transaction shall increase earnings per share and have a positive effect on profitability from the first year.
Market
Growth of 3% to 4% in volume.
Clasquin
Very, very significant growth in business and profit.
Yves REVOL – Chairman and CEO Philippe LONS – Deputy Managing Director and CFO Stéphanie CHALANDON – Financial Reporting and Logistics Manager Phone : 04 72 83 17 00 – Fax : 04 72 83 17 33 – Mail : [email protected] CLASQUIN Group - 235 cours Lafayette - 69006 Lyon
Clasquin is an air and sea freight forwarding and overseas logistics specialist.
The Group designs and manages the entire overseas transport and logistics chain, organising and coordinating the flow of client shipments between France and the rest of the world, and more specifically to and from Asia-Pacific and the United States.
Its shares are listed on Alternext Paris, ISIN FR0004152882, Reuters ALCLA.PA, Bloomberg ALCLA FP.
For more information, see www.clasquinfinance.com.
CLASQUIN confirms its eligibility for the new share savings plan for MSCs (medium-sized companies) in accordance with Article D221-113-5 of the French Monetary and Financial Code established by decree number 2014-283 of 4 March 2014 and with Article L221-32-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code which set the conditions for eligibility (less than 5,000 employees and annual sales of less than 1,500 million euros or total balance sheet of less than 2,000 million euros).
Clasquin is part of Enternext©PEA-PME 150 index
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