{"id":13265,"date":"2019-05-08T11:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T09:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/php8.plastv.de\/?p=13265"},"modified":"2019-05-07T11:08:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T09:08:59","slug":"novares-2018a-financial-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/?p=13265","title":{"rendered":"Novares 2018A financial results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"keb-headings keb-titre-h3\"><strong>Novares 2018A revenue of \u20ac1 123,3M, an increase of 2,7% versus 2017A (at constant exchange rate). EBITDA % improved to 9.1% <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><main class=\"article-content\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Excluding divested Truck activity, <b>the Group posted revenue of \u20ac1\u00a0123,3M in 2018<\/b> i.e. (0,8%) decrease compared to 2017 but +2,7% increase at constant rates, outperforming global automotive production trend (-1% in 2018 vs 2017). The growth came from volume above market trend in Europe and the Americas regions (led by US) with respectively +2,7% and +7,2% organic growth at constant rates which balanced the Asia slowdown representing (-9,3 %) at constant rate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">EBIT has been unfavorably impacted by foreign exchange rate, volume effect and the implementation of the new IFRS 15 rules. However, the Group has spent 5,4% to sustain development &amp; innovation. In addition, the Group has invested \u20ac10,4M through his new Novares Venture Capital structure set in order to acquire minority stake in start-up or innovative companies to add value to Novares products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>The Group achieved \u20ac102,1M of adjusted EBITDA in 2018 (9.1% of the revenue), compared to \u20ac 105.0M in 2017 (i.e. 8.9% of the revenue). <\/b>This improvement in EBITDA % was driven by Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Net result amounts to \u20ac6,5M in 2018 (i.e. 0.6% of the revenue)<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In April 2018 Novares Group set up a new Group facility of \u20ac300,0M and has dedicated \u20ac43,3M for strategical projects and \u20ac44,6M invested in new plant capacities (in particular in Morocco, Mexico, Romania, India, France, and Serbia). Group net debt as of December 2018 amounted to \u20ac261,2M, with <b>a gearing ratio (net debt to equity) of 1,7x. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Outlook <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Novares Group has acquired MPC Group in February 2019 (sales of USD 264,2M). This will lead our Group to reach \u20ac 1.4B sales in 2019. Adjusted EBITDA is expected to increase from \u20ac102M in 2018 to a \u20ac120M to \u20ac130M range. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Group will adapt its capital expenditures levels to the needs of organic growth and plant equipment renewal for an expected amount of \u20ac60M-65M per year. Moreover, we will continue to integrate innovative solutions for customers into our open innovation lab and demo car, Nova Car #2 which will be unveiled in June 2019. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Group will also pursue investments through Novares Venture Capital to acquire minority stakes in start-up or innovative companies to leverage their\u00a0technologies, capabilities, innovations to add value to Novares\u2019 product portfolio. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Net debt to equity ratio is expected to stay below 2,5x (2,0 x excluding strategical projects). <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_empty_space\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Consolidated Profit &amp; Loss 2018 :<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_left\">\n<figure class=\"wpb_wrapper vc_figure\">\n<div class=\"vc_single_image-wrapper   vc_box_border_grey\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"vc_single_image-img attachment-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.novaresteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tableau_EN.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.novaresteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tableau_EN.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.novaresteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Tableau_EN-300x160.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"212\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"keb-headings keb-titre-h3\">About Novares<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Novares group is a portfolio company of Equistone Partners Europe, with BPI France as second largest shareholder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Headquartered in France, Novares is a global plastic solutions provider that designs and manufactures complex components &amp; systems serving the future of the automotive industry. The company creates and produces cutting edge automotive solutions with technical plastic injection for cleaner, lighter, connected, cars with intelligent and intuitive interfaces for all passengers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Novares co-develops and provides engineering and manufacturing expertise to virtually every OEM and many Tier-1 companies in the automotive market. Following MPC integration, Novares\u2019 2019 revenues should amount to \u20ac1.5 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The group, including Novares Venture Capital participations, is present in 22 countries, runs 47 Manufacturing Plants, 8 Skill Centers, 7 Technical Centers and 17 Customer Service Centers, around the globe to partner with customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.novaresteam.com\">www.novaresteam.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excluding divested Truck activity, the Group posted revenue of \u20ac1\u00a0123,3M in 2018 i.e. decrease compared to 2017 but +2,7% increase at constant rates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-13265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plas-tv-meldungen-auf-der-startseite-unterhalb-slider","category-plast-tv-textmeldungen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13266,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13265\/revisions\/13266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13265"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=13265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}