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StrongPoint Investor Presentation 2023

Feb 13, 2023

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2025 Strategy Update Session

13 February 2023

Agenda & Speakers

  • About StrongPoint
  • 2025 strategy update
  • Trends driving StrongPoint's 'Double Opportunity'
  • Updates from selected core markets, partners and white space opportunities
  • Financial overview

StrongPoint at a glance

Years in
business
37 Revenue from
grocery retailers
>80% Offices
Countries with offices
Partner countries*
Countries with
full sales, service
and support
8 NOK Annual
revenue
Kr
1.4Bn
No. of
Employees
500+ Listed on Oslo
Stock Exchange
since
2003
Our Engagement
eNPS
score
36 Retail technology
unit growth in last
3 years
67%
Countries
covered with
partners
20 GRI
reporting &
member of UN
Global Compact
2021

Future proofed 2025 strategy

StrongPoint before new strategy released StrongPoint in 2023

3 business areas, 16 offices incl. Russia & Malaysia

Mainly selling hardware with some service agreements

Organization with limited renewal or focus on competence enhancement

Serving leading Scandinavian & Baltic retailers only

Dependent on a few large customers in 2-3 countries

Grocery retail tech focused with 8 priority countries, all in Europe, reduced risk

Solution sales with high potential for additional recurring software income and professional services

Strong leadership team and industry & solutions experts recruited, structured training and competence-enhancing programs established

Gained tier-1 European and global grocery retailer clients

Reduced risk profile: wider customer base across 8 priority countries and significant & meaningful partner network

Creating a NOK 2.5 billion retail technology company

2022 2025
Revenue 1.5
Bn*
NOK
2.5
Bn
NOK
EBITDA 5.8
%*
13-15
%

Mega Trends Driving Opportunities

StrongPoint's double opportunity: technology to solve grocery retailer megatrends

Our grocery retail solution suite

End-to-end provider from sales to support

Scandinavia embraces the race for efficiency-saving technologies

Exporting efficiency saving solutions…

…opportunities across Europe

With UK and Ireland as growth sweet spots

UK & Ireland facing challenges, some already overcome by Scandinavian retailers:

  • Labour costs soaring
  • Labour getting scarcer
  • Inflation means frequent price changes

Driving opportunities:

  • Electronic Shelf Labels
  • Vensafe
  • Order Picking
  • Click & Collect Grocery Lockers
  • Automated Fulfilment (AutoStore)

Scandinavians excel at developing and adopting efficiency-saving technologies

Established 1972 Established 1996

Cash: "the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated"

Source: ECB, Sveriges Riksbank, Norges Bank, Bank of England

Next generation CashGuard solution

End-to-end cash automation

from customer to cash-in-transit pickup with zero staff intervention at checkout or back office

CashGuard integrated into cashier counter

Notes are automatically counted, checked, flattened and ready for cash-in-transit pickup

White space opportunities

Country Market size
(BnNOK)*
StrongPoint
grocery
chain coverage
StrongPoint
solution
penetration
Examples of
opportunities
Norway 270 100% Vensafe, Self-checkout, E
Commerce
Sweden 300 100% E-Commerce, Electronic
Shelf Labels, Self-Checkout
Baltics 130 100% Vensafe, Self-Checkout, Electronic
Shelf Labels
Spain 1,230 Cash Management,
E-Commerce, Self-Checkout
UK&
Ireland
2,650 Electronic Shelf Labels,
E-Commerce, Self-Checkout

*Source: IGD

Pricer and AutoStore partnership update

Deeper and wider partnership with Pricer

  • Partner since 1999, over 20 years partnership
  • Installed over 15 million Pricer Electronic Shelf Labels in over 2,500 stores
  • Deepened & widened relationship with new strategic partnership in 2022 in UK, Ireland & Spain

Expanded AutoStore partnership to UK & Ireland

Made AutoStore distributor for UK & Ireland in 2022, following on from Nordics & Baltics in 2021

Leveraging new and existing team in UK for sales opportunities to grocery retailers

Example of 2025 strategy in action: product market fit

World's first AutoStore for frozen products

  • StrongPoint was chosen to design and install the world's first
  • Purpose-built for groceries
  • 30-40% energy consumption reduction

Food management is so different to any other retail segment which is why we decided to work with StrongPoint.

Jan Frode Johansen DLVRY Co-Founder and CEO

Financial Overview

Creating a NOK 2.5 billion retail technology company

Continued strong growth

*Proforma

EBITDA margin – current and path ahead

2022 EBITDA Margin

2025 EBITDA Margin

Four areas for gross margin improvement

All ranges are on Gross Profit but all contributing positive to increased EBITDA margins *Roll-out projects of proprietary solutions

Developing a strong base of recurring revenue

Recurring revenue

  • Service
  • Support
  • Rental
  • Software Licences

Wide portfolio of solutions to capture variety of future market conditions

*Proforma

Summary of financial highlights

Ambition to gradually increase dividends

* The Board will propose a dividend of NOK 0.90 per share at the Annual General Meeting in April 2023.

M&A will contribute to long-term growth

Geography expansion (to markets with good product/market fit)

  • UK
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • US

Strengthening of core markets

  • UK
  • Spain
  • Norway
  • Sweden
  • Baltics

Technology additions

  • AutoStore support infrastructure
  • In-store & e-commerce
  • Future-proofing technologies

The StrongPoint sandwich

Sauce
Tomorrow's
solutions
Robotics, &
Staffless
shops
Toppings
E-commerce
solutions
Order Picking, Last
Mile, Automated
MFC
Bread &
Butter
In-store
solutions
Self-checkout,
Pay & Collect, Cash
Management

Summary: creating a NOK 2.5 billion retail technology company

Operational leverage

• Leverage full sales, service and support structure in markets where demand continues to be strong, especially UK & Spain

Exporting efficiency saving technologies

• Grocery retailers need efficiency saving instore and online technologies to drive long-term profitability the StrongPoint 'Double Opportunity'

Product innovation and M&A

• Delivered on M&A commitments and investing in solutions for future customer value

Thank you