Sligro Food Group 2015 net profit €81 million

The net profit for the year amounted to €81 million, which is an increase of 17.4% compared with 2014. As stated in the press release of 6 January 2016, sales in 2015 amounted to €2,670 million, an increase of 3.8%. Discounting the effect of acquisitions, week 53 in 2015 and tobacco products, organic growth was 1.1%.

CEO Koen Slippens:
‘Sligro Food Group achieved a record profit of €81 million in 2015. Both sides of the business posted a strong increase in results. To have broken through the €80 million barrier for the first time in the year of our 80th anniversary is something we are particularly proud of! Earnings per share were up by 16.5%, at €1.84. Given that improvement, combined with a financial position that is as strong as ever, we propose to increase the dividend by €0.10 to €1.20 per share. In Foodservice we have expanded our market share to 23.1% (source: FSIN) and our share of the food retail market has remained steady, at 2.7%.'

Read more in the press release or watch the video below.

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Annual report and Annual figures

The 2015 Annual report will be published on 5 February 2016. A presentation of the Annual figures will be given today in a press conference and a meeting for analysts. Developments in the first quarter will be discussed in detail in the Trading Update on 21 April. The Half-year figures will be published on 21 July.

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Publication and Conference call Annual figures 2015 

On 21 January, before start of trading, Sligro Food Group will publish the Annual figures of 2015. This figures will be discussed at our press conference and in a meeting with analysts. 

Below are the details and how you can sign up to attend the meeting.

Press conference
Thursday, January 21, 2016, 11.00 AM
Location: Sligro Amsterdam, Van der Madeweg 39, Amsterdam-Duivendrecht
Sign up: sent an e-mail to Mieke van der Valk: mvdvalk@sligro.nl

Analyst Meeting
Thursday, January 21, 2016, 13.30 PM
Location: Sligro Amsterdam, Van der Madeweg 39, Amsterdam-Duivendrecht
Sign up: sent an e-mail to Mieke van der Valk: mvdvalk@sligro.nl

Conference call

Also a conference call will be hosted at 15.30 hours CET. The dial-in number is: +31 20 531 5841. Entrance code participants: 654456#. The press release and the presentation will be published on 21 January on this website. The presentation will be used during the call. Please, sent an e-mail to mvdvalk@sligro.nl if you want to participate.

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Sligro Food Group posts € 2,670 million sales in 2015 

Sligro Food Group N.V.’s sales in 2015 amounted to € 2,670 million, an increase of 3.8% compared with sales in 2014 of € 2,572 million. Read more in the press release below. 

As the financial year comprised 53 weeks in 2015 and 52 in 2014, week 53 in 2015 has been disregarded in the calculation of organic and like-for-like growth.

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The complete full-year figures for 2015 will be published on 21 January 2016 before start of trading.

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Sligro Food Group highly rated as employer

The staff opinion of Sligro Food Group as an employer is good. Incompany 200, an independent job satisfaction survey carried out among the employees of the hundred largest companies in the Netherlands, ranks Sligro Food Group in 45th position. That puts Sligro in second place in the retail sector behind number one retailer IKEA. Staff give Sligro an average score of almost 7 (6.95) in the report. The national average is 6.85.

Sligro has scored highly in the Incompany survey for some years but has now beaten its previous best of 6.88, achieved in 2012. With a score of 6.95, Sligro is comfortably number two in the retail and wholesale sector, in which IKEA has topped the list for many years. ‘The fact that Sligro is not a direct competitor of IKEA and is instead up against supermarkets and other large food chains makes Sligro the winner in its particular field’, comments Incompany. This success is mainly down to the ‘old strength’ of the company, ‘its culture’, which scored 7.41. Top marks were also given for ‘atmosphere at work’ (7.73), ‘team spirit’ (7.67) and ‘contact with managers’ (7.63).

Three out of four employees proud
There is room for improvement and growth according to Incompany in ‘career mentoring’ (6.37) and ‘scope for career progression’ (6.43). But that is all there is with regard to improvement potential, because Sligro scores very highly indeed on its internal reputation. The survey reveals that three out of four employees are proud to work for Sligro.

The final report figure on which the top 103 in the Incompany 200 survey is based is the arithmetic mean of the scores for the 18 aspects on which employers are judged. For more details, see the Incompany website.

Silver award for Sligro Foodbrigade 

Internet platform Foodbrigade has won a silver award at the International Content Marketing Awards in London. 

Foodbrigade is an online platform that focuses on the hospitality sector. You can find stories and tips from entrepreneurs, interviews with newcomers in the industry, blogs from experts and the latest news and trends. Sligro developed the concept wit the bureau LVB Networks. It was the only Dutch nomination who won a prize.

Gemma Schneemann, Marketing Director of Sligro: “Foodbrigade sets an example, in the Netherlands and abroad. Such an award is a great motivation to keep improving the platform."

New openings: Sligro and EMTÉ

In November Sligro Utrecht and the new EMTÉ Dieren opened its doors.

There are now seven Sligro outlets (in total 49) in 3.0 style, a new generation outlets which are more focused on fresh products and inspiration. In 2016 there will be more sites opened, including Veghel, where the head office of Sligro Food Group is located.

EMTÉ

Besides Sligro also EMTÉ renewed their formula and you can see the result in Dieren, where the first supermarket in the new EMTÉ 3.0 style is located. The house style is modernized and experience and inspiration around good and tasty food is more central. The supermarket has - like before - around 13,000 articles but much more fresh products. The goal of EMTÉ 3.0 is to be the most delicious supermarket in the Netherlands.

Trading Update third quarter 2015

Sligro Food Group N.V.’s sales for the first three quarters of 2015 (39 weeks) were €1,933 million, an increase of 1.9% (Q3: 3.5%) compared with sales of €1,897 million over the corresponding period in 2014. 

Excluding the effect of acquisitions and tobacco products, sales were up by 1.2% (Q3: 2.6%). Read more in the press release.

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The sales figures for 2015 will be announced on 6 January 2016 and the complete full-year figures for 2015 will be published on 21 January 2016.

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Presentation Half-year figures 2015 

On Thursday, July 16, Sligro Food Group presented the Half-year figures 2015 in Sligro Amsterdam. Watch the presentation below in PDF. 

Meetings, 16 July
11.00 hours: Press conference
13.30 hours: Analyst Meeting

Location:
Sligro Amsterdam
Van der Madeweg 39
Amsterdam-Duivendrecht

A conference call will be hosted at 15.30 hours CET. The dial-in number is: +31 205315841, code participants: 231883#

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Half-year figures 2015: net profit €29 million

Net profit for the first six months was €29 million, up 7.4% compared with the corresponding period in 2014. Sales in the first half of 2015 amounted to €1,274 million, an increase of 1.1% on H1 2014. On a like-for-like basis, sales growth was 0.5%.

Koen Slippens, CEO: ‘The macroeconomic indicators point to further recovery in the Dutch market. In the supermarket channel we are already seeing signs of this and sales continue to pick up. There is also a certain amount of recovery in the foodservice market but it is still rather sluggish. Our ‘Kick the Costs’ programme is now well underway and is showing visible results, which forms an important basis for profitability improvement. All in all we can look back on an encouraging first half of 2015, especially when one considers the incidental gains in 2014.’

Read more in the press release or watch the video below, with an explanation by
CFO Rob van der Sluijs.

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Press conference Half-year figures 2015

On 16 July 2015 Sligro Food Group will publish its Half-year figures. This figures will be discussed at our press conference and in a meeting with analysts. Below are the details and how you can sign up to attend the meeting. 

Meetings July 16, 2015
11.00 am: Press conference
13.30 pm: Analysts meeting

Location
Sligro Amsterdam
Van der Madeweg 39
1115 RD Amsterdam-Duivendrecht

A conference call will be hosted at 15.30 hours CET. The dial-in number is: +31 205315841, code participants: 231883#

Please sent an e-mail to Mieke van der Valk, mvdvalk@sligro.nl if you want to participate or be present at one of the meetings above.