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StrongPoint — Investor Presentation 2023
Feb 13, 2023
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Investor Presentation
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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