Fielmann AG — Interim / Quarterly Report 2019

Sep 17, 2024

Felmann

Fielmann Group Interim Report

as at 30 September

Dear Shareholders, Dear Friends of the Company,

The results for the first three quarters of 2019 are in line with our expectations. With its customer-friendly philosophy, Fielmann has once again increased the number of units sold, sales revenue and profits.

Units sold and sales revenue

Fielmann increased its number of units sold in the first three quarters to 6.13 million glasses (previous year: 6.06 million) and raised external sales by $7.5 \%$ to $€ 1,347.6$ million (previous year: $€ 1,253.6$ million). Consolidated sales went up by $7.5 \%$ to $€ 1,158.3$ million (previous year: $€ 1,077.8$ million). On a currency-adjusted basis, sales grew by $7.0 \%$.
Fielmann increased its units sold in the third quarter by $2.5 \%$ to 2.06 million (previous year: 2.01 million). External sales grew by $7.6 \%$ to $€ 463.2$ million (previous year: $€ 430.6$ million) and consolidated sales rose by $9.2 \%$ to $€ 400.1$ million (previous year: $€ 366.4$ million).

Earnings and investments

The pre-tax profit amounted to $€ 206.1$ million after nine months of the year (previous year: $€ 196.1$ million) and the net income was $€ 143.0$ million (previous year: $€ 135.7$ million). The quarterly pre-tax profit reached $€ 78.5$ million (previous year: $€ 80.0$ million) and the net income stood at $€ 54.7$ million (previous year: $€ 55.4$ million). The profit development has been particularly influenced by the employee increases and the non-recurring effects in the previous year. After three quarters, investments totalled $€ 74.4$ million (previous year: $€ 47.1$ million). All investments were financed from our cash flow and were significantly increased in line with the Vision 2025 strategy.
With effect of 1 September of this year, Fielmann AG acquired 70\% of shares in the Slovenian optical chain Optika Clarus and its 27 stores, thereby entering the 14th European market. As at 30 September 2019, Fielmann operated 770 stores (previous year: 729), 206 of which also contained hearing aid studios (previous year: 191).

Earnings per share

The earnings per share were $€ 1.65$ (previous year: $€ 1.58$ ). There were no circumstances which could have diluted earnings per share during the period under review or comparable periods.

On 11 July 2019, the Annual General Meeting of Fielmann AG agreed a dividend payout of $€ 1.90$ per share for the financial year 2018 (previous year: $€ 1.85$ ), which represents a $2.7 \%$ increase over the previous year.

Fielmann has created 894 additional jobs to drive its expansion and its digitization, of which 428 are for apprentices. The acquisition of Optika Clarus has boosted the number of employees by 137. As at 30 September, Fielmann employed a total of 20,519 members of staff (previous year: 19,488), of whom 4,356 are apprentices (previous year: 3,928).

IFRS 16 "Leasing" is mandatory for the reporting periods beginning as of 1 January 2019. This standard sets out the principles for the recognition, measurement and disclosure of leases in the Notes, and has an impact on the presentation of assets, financial position and earnings as well as on the scope of the disclosures required in the Notes. Fielmann is a lessee as it uses leases to rent business premises. Leasing also plays a minor role in the field of car financing. In the reporting period, the first application of IFRS 16 at Fielmann only led to additional costs of $€ 1.3$ million. A significant increase to the balance sheet total of more than $40 \%$ has resulted from taking the rights of usufruct from leases (rental agreements) into account. This has an impact on the Fielmann Group's key figures. The equity ratio fell due to the increase to the balance sheet total from $75.1 \%$ as at 31 December 2018 to $50.7 \%$ as at 30 September 2019.

To the Company's knowledge, there is no information necessitating changes to the main forecasts or other expectations formulated in the last Group Management Report. The statements provided in the Annual Report 2018 on the opportunities and risks of the business model remain unchanged, too.

Fielmann has used its available liquidity to strengthen its position in the market, invest in digitization and accelerate its expansion. For the year as a whole, we expect a result at the same level as the previous year.

Hamburg, November 2019 Fielmann Aktiengesellschaft
The Management Board

Dividend

Employees

Change to the accounting principles

Forecast, opportunities and risk report

Outlook

Cash flow statement

Cash flow statement according to IAS 7 for the period from 1 January to 30 September in €000s

Earnings before taxes (EBT)	2019	2018	Change
$-/+$ Profit shares of associates	206,118	196,121	9,997
$+$ Statement-related interest expenditure from leases	445	0	445
$+$ Statement-related other expenditure in the final result	849	0	1,801
- Statement-related income in the final result	$-1,299$	$-759$	$-540$
$+$ Write-downs on tangible assets and intangible assets	37,287	33,304	3,983
$+$ Write-downs on rights of usufruct from leases	57,821	0	57,821
- Taxes on income paid	$-58,308$	$-53,475$	$-4,833$
$+/-$ Other non-cash income/expenditure	$-911$	9,161	$-10,072$
$+/-$ Increase/decrease in accruals	6,826	$-2,743$	9,569
$-/+$ Profit/loss on disposal of tangible assets as properties kept as financial investments and intangible assets	$-110$	$-3,167$	3,057
$-/+$ Increase/decrease in inventories, trade debtors and other assets not attributable to investment or financial operations	$-406,216$	$-45,988$	$-360,228$
$+/-$ Increase/decrease in trade creditors and other liabilities not attributable to investment or financial operations	427,323	39,077	388,246
- Interest paid	$-461$	$-513$	52
$+$ Interest received	399	188	211
= Cash flow from operating activities	271,564	171,855	99,709
Receipts from the disposal of tangible assets	277	137	140
- Payments for tangible assets	$-38,404$	$-36,914$	$-1,490$
- Payments for intangible assets	$-22,661$	$-9,933$	$-12,728$
$+$ Receipts from the disposal of financial assets	110	105	5
- Payments for financial assets	0	$-226$	226
- Payments for the acquisition of subsidiaries	$-13,388$	0	$-13,388$
$+$ Receipts from the disposal of securities and other investments	88,772	96,738	$-7,966$
- Payments for the acquisition of securities and other investments	$-25,508$	$-72,875$	47,367
= Cash flow from investment activities	$-10,802$	$-22,968$	12,166
Payments to company owners and non-controlling shareholders	$-163,952$	$-158,736$	$-5,216$
$+/-$ Sale/Acquisition of own shares	$-3,687$	$-3,539$	$-148$
$+$ Receipts from loans raised	323	0	323
- Repayment of loans	$-231$	$-1,293$	1,062
- Payments for liabilities from leases	$-58,345$	0	$-58,345$
- Payments for the acquisition of additional shares in subsidiaries	$-650$	$-276$	$-374$
= Cash flow from financing activities	$-226,542$	$-163,844$	$-62,698$
Changes in cash and equivalents	34,220	$-14,957$	49,177
$+/-$ Changes in cash and equivalents due to exchange rates	$-67$	$-88$	21
$+$ Cash and equivalents at the beginning of the period	138,557	172,131	$-33,574$
= Cash and equivalents at the end of the period	172,710	157,086	15,624

Summary of financial assets

in €000s	2019-09-30	2018-09-30	Change
Liquid funds	118,334	103,284	15,050
Capital investments with a specific maturity of up to 3 months	54,376	53,802	574
Cash and cash equivalents	172,710	157,086	15,624
Non-current financial assets	2,205	2,821	$-616$
Other non-current financial assets	34,847	47,482	$-12,635$
Capital investments with a specific maturity of more than 3 months	73,021	103,962	$-30,941$
Financial assets	282,783	311,351	$-28,568$

Financial calendar 2020

Preliminary figures 2019	February 2020
Interim report	29 April 2020
Financial statement press conference	29 April 2020
Annual General Meeting	9 July 2020
Bloomberg code	FIE
Reuters code	FIEG.DE
Securities ID number/ISIN	DE0005772206

Further information:

Fielmann AG - Investor Relations
Ulrich Brockmann
Weidestraße 118 a - 22083 Hamburg
Telephone: +49 (0) 40 / 27076-442 - Fax: +49 (0) 40 / 27076-150
E-mail: investorrelations@fielmann.com - Internet: www.fielmann.com

Segment reporting 1 January to 30 September 2019 The previous year's figures are stated in parentheses.

in € million	Germany	Switzerland	Austria	Other	Consoli- dation	Consolidated value
Sales revenues from the segment	975.9 (913.8)	135.4 (125.8)	67.3 (62.5)	40.0 (33.7)	$-60.3(-58.0)$	1,158.3 (1,077.8)
Sales revenues from other segments	60.0 (57.7)		0.3 (0.3)
Outside sales revenues	915.9 (856.1)	135.4 (125.8)	67.0 (62.2)	40.0 (33.7)		1,158.3 (1077.8)
Cost of materials	236.6 (221.2)	28.6 (27.7)	15.4 (15.6)	11.7 (10.4)	$-52.3(-50.8)$	240.0 (224.1)
Personnel costs	379.4 (349.0)	53.7 (50.1)	23.8 (22.4)	14.9 (11.9)		471.8 (433.4)
Scheduled depreciation	71.1 (27.2)	11.2 (3.3)	4.8 (1.2)	8.0 (1.6)		95.1 (33.3)
Expenses in the finan- cial result	2.4 (0.5)	0.4 (0.1)	0.3 (0.0)	0.6 (0.4)	$-0.6(-0.4)$	3.1 (0.6)
Income in the financial result	1.5 (0.9)	0.3 (0.3)		0.1 (0.0)	$-0.6(-0.4)$	1.3 (0.8)
Earnings before tax - in segments excl. investment income	175.6 (169.8)	20.9 (18.0)	13.4 (10.7)	$-3.8(-2.4)$	0.0 (0.0)	206.1 (196.1)
Taxes on income and earnings	55.9 (54.7)	4.0 (3.5)	2.4 (1.8)	0.8 (0.4)		63.1 (60.4)
Consolidated net income for the period	119.7 (115.1)	16.9 (14.5)	11.0 (8.9)	$-4.6(-2.8)$	0.0 (0.0)	143.0 (135.7)
Non-current segment assets excluding finan- cial instruments and deferred tax assets	564.3 (283.8)	82.9 (30.5)	39.2 (5.6)	87.3 (19.4)		773.6 (339.3)
Additions to non-current segment assets excluding financial instruments and deferred tax assets	341.0 (38.1)	61.5 (4.3)	39.0 (0.4)	71.5 (4.3)		513.0 (47.1)
Shares in associates	4.8 (0.0)					4.8 (0.0)
Deferred tax assets	10.6 (10.4)		0.3 (0.3)	0.8 (2.2)		11.7 (12.9)

Consolidated profit and loss account

For the period from 1 July to 30 September
1. Consolidated sales	400,057	366,353
2. Changes in inventories	$-366$	5,685
Total consolidated sales	399,691	372,038
3. Other operating income	3,872	2,412
4. Cost of materials	$-83,344$	$-77,261$
5. Personnel costs	$-156,546$	$-137,917$
6. Writedowns on rights of usufruct from leases	$-19,532$	0
7. Other write-downs	$-12,833$	$-11,264$
8. Other operating expenses	$-52,382$	$-68,055$
9. Interest expenditure from leases	$-604$	0
10. Other expenses in the financial result	$-461$	$-212$
11. Income in the financial result	621	243
12. Result before taxes	78,482	79,984
13. Taxes on income and earnings	$-23,780$	$-24,634$
14. Net income for the quarter	54,702	55,350
15. Income attributable to minority interests	$-2,036$	$-1,800$
16. Profits to be allocated to parent company shareholders	52,666	53,550
Earnings per share in € (diluted/basic)	0.63	0.64

Consolidated profit and loss account

For the period from 1 January to 30 September	2019 in €000s	2018 in €000s	Change from previous year in \%
1. Consolidated sales	1,158,253	1,077,829	7.5
2. Changes in inventories	6,072	5,700	6.5
Total consolidated sales	1,164,325	1,083,529	7.5
3. Other operating income	13,574	13,911	$-2.4$
4. Cost of materials	$-240,037$	$-224,092$	7.1
5. Personnel costs	$-471,779$	$-433,373$	8.9
6. Writedowns on rights of usufruct from leases	$-57,821$	0
7. Other write-downs	$-37,287$	$-33,304$	12.0
8. Other operating expenses	$-163,061$	$-210,660$	$-22.6$
9. Interest expenditure from leases	$-1,801$	0
10. Other expenses in the financial result	$-1,294$	$-649$	99.4
11. Income in the financial result	1,299	759	71.1
12. Result before taxes	206,118	196,121	5.1
13. Taxes on income and earnings	$-63,072$	$-60,401$	4.4
14. Consolidated net income for the period	143,046	135,720	5.4
15. Income attributable to minority interests	$-4,535$	$-3,355$	35.2
16. Profits to be allocated to parent company shareholders	138,511	132,365	4.6
Earnings per share in € (diluted/basic)	1.65	1.58

Consolidated balance sheet

Assets

A. Non-current fixed assets

I. Intangible assets
II. Goodwill
III. Tangible assets
IV. Investment property
V. Rights of usufruct from leases
VI. Shares in associates
VII. Other financial assets
VIII. Deferred tax assets
IX. Other financial assets
X. Receivables from leases

B. Current assets

I. Inventories
II. Trade debtors
III. Other financial assets
IV. Non-financial assets
V. Tax assets
VI. Financial assets
VII. Cash and cash equivalents

Liabilities

A. Equity

I. Subscribed capital
II. Capital reserves
III. Profit reserves
IV. Other reserves

Consolidated equity of the parent company's shareholders
V. Non-controlling interests

B. Non-current liabilities

I. Accruals
II. Financial liabilities
III. Deferred tax liabilities
IV. Liabilities from leases

C. Current liabilities

I. Accruals
II. Financial liabilities
III. Liabilities from leases
IV. Trade creditors
V. Other financial liabilities
VI. Non-financial liabilities
VII. Income tax liabilities

Position as at 30 September 2019 in €000s	Position as at 31 December 2018 in €000s
49,346	33,987
60,988	47,509
269,975	262,253
13,315	13,639
379,946	0
4,774	5,218
2,205	2,315
11,687	12,276
34,847	61,574
1,015	0
828,098	438,771
Position as at 30 September 2019 in €000s	Position as at 31 December 2018 in €000s
84,000	84,000
92,652	92,652
494,273	514,391
14,791	17,966
685,716	709,009
1,306	207
687,022	709,216
31,658	25,482
1,387	1,363
12,550	12,135
303,910	0
349,505	38,980
49,435	48,784
184	115
78,270	0
80,311	56,337
23,750	21,843
74,358	58,544
13,435	10,974
319,743	196,597
1,356,270	944,793