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StrongPoint — Investor Presentation 2022
Feb 15, 2022
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Retail technology in every shopping experience for a smarter and better life
Strategy Update Session 15 February 2022
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Today's presenters
Jacob Tveraabak Chris Mackie Hilde Horn Gilen
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Executive Officer SVP E-commerce & UK Managing Director
About StrongPoint
StrongPoint is a grocery retail technology company
Focus on grocery retail technology
E-commerce logistics and in-store solutions
Efficiency is our obsession as every second counts in high volume, low margin industry
Grocery retailers are pouring billions into technology
The StrongPoint double opportunity: providing grocery retailers in-store and e-commerce technology
E-COMMERCE
Retailers' needs
1. In-store: Pressure on brick & mortar retailers' margin
Opportunity for StrongPoint
Technology solutions in-store to improve retailers' productivity, provide safe shopping and hence uphold margins
2. E-commerce: Pressure to develop online presence
World-class e-commerce solutions for picking and delivery
About StrongPoint
35+
years experience
Oldest and largest retail technology company in the Nordics – founded in 1985
Over 400 full-time employees globally including support staff in multiple countries
countries 20+
Provide retail technology solutions to grocery companies for over 20 years
A strong portfolio of in-store and e-grocery solutions*
In-store solutions E-commerce solutions
In-store and e-grocery solutions
Task & Workforce Management
Vensafe
Cash Management
In-store and e-grocery solutions
Trusted by leading grocery retailers
National media covering how our solutions help leading grocery retailer profit from e-commerce
Translation: "How online groceries became profitable"
"The automated lockers has been a prerequisite for Willys to achieve profitability within click and collect. Home deliveries are still not profitable for Willys and [we] see automation as an important tool to reach profitability there as well."
Thomas Evertsson, CEO Willys AB
Dagens Industri, January 10, 2022
Solid growth for both in-store and e-commerce solutions
Developing a strong base of recurring revenue
Recurring SaaS revenue from e-commerce: a key indicator
Revenue MNOK
Recurring SaaS revenue
- Only from e-commerce
- 100% customer retention on Order Picking
Strategy
StrongPoint's financial ambitions for growth
NOK 2.5 bn in 2025
EBITDA 13-15%
T-Shaped Strategy
- E-Commerce Order Fulfillment platform
- Order Picking
- Micro fulfillment centers
- Last Mile Solutions
- Self Checkout
- Cash Management
- Halodi Humanoid Robot
Go deep in core markets with solutions that cover in-store and e-commerce solutions
- Norway
- Sweden
- Baltics
- Spain
Now includes AutoStore grocery micro-fulfilment
Investing for the future
2025 revenue ambition: a pure retail technology company
Revenue MNOK
Delivering on our strategy, building the retail technology growth platform
About Air Link Systems Ltd (ALS) – our first acquisition*
Worked with leading grocery retailers in UK and abroad
• Sainsbury's
Priorities to achieve 2025 revenue ambition
Market Trends
The three dominating grocery retail e-commerce trends
Focus on operational efficiency & profitability
Quick commerce continues to grow
Sustainability in the last mile
Trend #1 – A focus on operational efficiency and profitability
| Challenge / Opportunity | Recommended Strategies | StrongPoint's Value |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Retailer | • Grocery e-commerce challenges the profitability of traditional retailers' • Industry faces many labour, cost and price pressures |
• Optimise and simplify • Review processes • Automate • Mitigate costs • Incentivise consumer behaviour |
Order Picking - SaaS MFC (AutoStore Micro-Fulfillment) |
| Quick Commerce |
• High customer acquisition costs and high capex • Inefficient and costly processes |
• Mitigate costs • Simplify onboarding • MFC process and layout • Automate • Innovate and incentivise consumer behaviour |
Grocery Lockers - LaaS Workforce management Q Com Order Picking - SaaS |
Consumers demand faster delivery when they "need it now"
Trend #2 – Quick Commerce continues to grow
| Challenge / Opportunity | Recommended Strategies | StrongPoint's Value |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Retailer | • Access new customers and the convenience market • As it becomes more widespread shopper missions are diversifying • Protect your high margin sales |
• Playbook • Market Analysis • Partner • Launch • Invest / Acquire • Constant re-evaluation |
Order Picking - SaaS MFC (AutoStore Micro-Fulfillment) |
| Quick Commerce |
• Highly competitive • A need to rapidly and cost effectively expand and gain market share • Onboarding challenges • A need to differentiate |
• Establish partnerships for the building blocks required to: • accelerate your offer • reduce onboarding time and cost • Enable your riders |
Grocery Lockers - LaaS Q Com Order Picking - SaaS |
Trend #3 – Sustainability in the last mile
| Challenge / Opportunity | Recommended Strategies | StrongPoint's Value |
|---|---|---|
| • Grocery retailers are under pressure to reduce their environmental impact • A need to align with more environmentally conscious consumers |
• Localise • Incentivise • Delivery Methods • Share • Test |
MFC (AutoStore Micro-Fulfillment) Grocery StrongPoint Lockers - Route LaaS manager Mobile lockers |
Online grocery retail is growing fast
Online grocery sales estimates in target markets1 NOK trillion
Future of grocery e-commerce – the only way is up
Online penetration in selected US retail segments Percent
Key fulfilment/delivery methods in e-grocery
Addressable market for key solutions
Number of million online orders per year*
Source: IGD, StrongPoint analysis
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*Norway, Sweden, Baltics, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Italy, UK, Benelux, France, Germany, US **Instore and darkstore picking
StrongPoint Solutions
Built and deployed the world's most efficient picking solution for in-store and dark store manual picking
Customers average 240 items p/hr in-store picking with many achieving far higher rates
99.99% accuracy – on par with automated fulfilment solutions
Can be used in stores, in dark stores, in combination with micro-fulfilment or for quick-commerce orders
Extensive installed base of temperature-controlled grocery lockers
| - - | ||
|---|---|---|
App-based pickup and loading for customers and staff
Mobile temperature-controlled grocery lockers can be placed almost anywhere
Age control can be done manually or with AI-powered age-verification technology*
Rapidly growing footprint of our Picking Solution and Click & Collect lockers
A trusted partner to leading robotics technology providers
AutoStore's first and only grocery retail-specialised partner
StrongPoint has developed a unique grocery micro-fulflillment solution with AutoStore's solution
Partner with Germany-based Hörmann Logistik to provide grocery microfulfillment in Nordics, Baltics and DACH region
"AutoStore is delighted to partner with StrongPoint, who so clearly sees the potential in micro fulfillment. Together, we are well positioned to deliver on the ongoing transformative phase"
Karl Johan Lier, CEO of AutoStore*
Customers segments for e-commerce technology
Potentially applicable
StrongPoint Self-Checkout delivering outstanding customer experiences with minimal staff interventions
AI-powered item recognition creates unbeatable speed of purchasing*
Automated age-control with AI-powered age-verification technology**
Fewer staff interventions without sacrificing security and accuracy powered by proprietary self-learning system
*Image-recognition technology provided by Edgify 40 **Age-verification technology provided by Yoti
Investing in in-store grocery robot of the future
Entered into a strategic partnership with Halodi Robotics to design & distribute grocery robot
Can take over repetitive processes and free human labour to focus on more challenging tasks
Can be used for stock replenishment in-store, especially useful at night time
StrongPoint's CashGuard still in high demand even in countries with little cash in use
Although Norway is almost cash-free, still high demand for StrongPoint's CashGuard
Demand even greater in southern European countries and growing post-pandemic
Mergers & Acquisitions
StrongPoint is continuously evaluating emerging M&A opportunities
Building momentum in M&A activities
Made first acquisition* of Air Link after valuated ~60 companies
Divested Labels and Cash Security business to focus only on retail technology
Monitoring and explore grocery retail technology market trends
Financial impact of ALS acquisition* on StrongPoint
Will add NOK 240 million revenue with 10% EBITDA based on 2021 performance
Fair enterprise value for a service and installation company
Purchase price to be paid in a combination of cash and shares in StrongPoint
Exclusivity period until 30.04.2022. StrongPoint expects to complete Due Diligence and final purchase agreement within this date
Dividend
Ambition to gradually increase dividends
Outlook & Priorities
Creating a NOK 2.5 billion retail technology company
50 *Revenue and EBITDA margin from continued operations excluding positive effects from compensation from relocation of Labels production in Norway