{"id":9137,"date":"2020-01-23T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/investor-day-2019\/"},"modified":"2021-06-23T15:57:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T13:57:46","slug":"2019-investor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/2019-investor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Investor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div\n    data-observer=\"item\"\n    data-animation-type=\"fade\"\n    class=\"module module-text with-margin-top- no-padding- add-bottom-padding- is-center-\"\n>\n    <div class=\"module-content\">\n        <div class=\"grid\">\n            <div class=\"row r-1\">\n                <div class=\"column-8\">\n                    <div class=\"text-content\">\n                        <p>On November 7, 2019, 海角大神 held its 18th annual Investor Day, dedicated to the unlisted companies in its portfolio. The event is open to the financial community and is an opportunity to evaluate and discuss the business, growth and development of these companies.<\/p>\n<p>The executives of Stahl, Constantia Flexibles, Cromology and IHS were on hand to talk about what their companies are doing and their outlook for growth over the coming months. In addition, all of the companies reviewed their environmental and social responsibility strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the 2019 Investor Day.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Stahl, world leader in leather chemicals and high-performance coatings<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>With sales down 7.6%, the first nine months of 2019 were mixed for Stahl (\u20ac611.5 million vs. \u20ac662.0 million in the year-earlier period), as noted by CEO Huub van Beijeren. In 2019, Stahl suffered from macroeconomic weakness in China, a result of the trade war, and from the slowdown in worldwide industrial production. Meanwhile, the Leather Chemicals and, to a lesser extent, the Performance Coatings divisions suffered from difficult market conditions in the footwear and automotive industries. Despite this difficult context, Stahl leveraged its dynamic cost management and the resilience of its business model to quickly adapt its cost base to market conditions.<\/p>\n<p>With regard to corporate social responsibility (CSR), Stahl is maintaining its commitments, so as to stay<br \/>\ncompetitive and remain a leader in its business sector. Michael Costello, the company\u2019s Director<br \/>\nof sustainable development, pointed out Stahl\u2019s noteworthy achievements in this area:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>c. 90% of Stahl\u2019s worldwide production derives from ISO 14001\/9001 certified sites,<\/li>\n<li>&gt; 85% of its coating solutions are water-based,<\/li>\n<li>no coal is burned in the group\u2019s factories&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Constantia Flexibles, a world leader in flexible packaging<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Over the first nine months of 2019, Constantia Flexibles\u2019 sales totaled \u20ac1,146 million, up 0.1% from the year-earlier period (\u20ac1,146 million). CEO Alexander Baumgartner reported that the recently acquired companies\u2014Creative Polypack in India and TTPrint in Russia\u2014contributed positively to the company\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2019, the Austrian company brought on line Constantia Ecoflex Ahmedabad, an innovative facility 100% dedicated to the production of recyclable flexible packaging. This industrial innovation represents another step toward achieving the company\u2019s stated goal of making all of its packaging fully recyclable between now and 2025.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>IHS, the African leader in telecom infrastructure<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Adam Walker, IHS\u2019s Group CFO and Executive Vice President, was pleased to present the 7.2% increase in his company\u2019s sales to $914 million over the first nine months of 2019. These results attest to IHS\u2019s positioning as one of the leading telecom tower companies in the EMEA region. All of the company\u2019s geographies are growing organically. In particular, Adam Walker pointed out that the company\u2019s operations in Nigeria and Rwanda were posting double-digit organic growth. In 2019, the number of towers held and managed by the company increased by 1.6% year-onyear, with 24,019 towers in the portfolio as of September 30, 2019*.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of December 2019, IHS signed an agreement to acquire Cell Site Solutions \u2013 Cess\u00e3o De Infraestruturas S.A. (CSS), a Brazilian company based in S\u00e3o Paolo. CSS has nearly 2,300 towers as well as telecom infrastructrure sites in Brazil, Peru and Colombia. With this acquisition, IHS expands its geographical footprint in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, IHS has also made CSR central to its strategic plan. Its CSR initiatives have been recognized by SERAS Africa, an African organization that gives awards to companies to encourage them to be responsible.<\/p>\n<p><em>* Tower count excluding managed services and WIP as of September 30, 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Cromology, a European leader in decorative paints<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Cromology posted sales of \u20ac520.3 million in the first nine months of the year, up 2.1% compared with the year-earlier period. Chairman Pierre Pouletty and CEO Lo\u00efc Derrien explained that Cromology\u2019s growth was underpinned by its various brands (Tollens, Zolpan, Robbialac and others), which all have a premium positioning in their markets.<\/p>\n<p>The two managers attended Investor Day for the first time and took advantage of the opportunity to present in detail the transformation currently taking place within the company and supported by a \u20ac125 million capital injection from 海角大神 in May 2019. Cromology\u2019s financial structure has now been strengthened, thereby enabling it to make new investments and address new market needs.<\/p>\n<p>Like Stahl and Constantia Flexibles, Cromology would like to establish its leadership by making ESG criteria (Environment, Social, Governance) central to its strategy. Ninety percent of its products are already water-based. And the European leader in decorative paints promises further advances in 2020.<\/p>\n\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div\n    data-observer=\"item\"\n    data-animation-type=\"fade\"\n    class=\"module module-buttons with-margin-top- no-padding-1 add-bottom-padding-1\"\n>\n    <div class=\"module-content\">\n        <div class=\"grid\">\n            <div class=\"row r-1\">\n                <div class=\"column-8\">\n                                            <div class=\"button arrow-button brown\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/wendelgroup.com\/espace-investisseurs\/investor-days\/\" target=\"_self\">\n            <svg\n    class=\"arrow-right-icon\"\n    xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"\n    viewBox=\"0 0 15 16\"\n>\n    <path\n        d=\"M7.375 0l7.601 7.601-7.601 7.602-1.06-1.06 5.89-5.893H0v-1.5h12.003L6.314 1.06 7.375 0z\"\n    \/>\n<\/svg>\n        <span class=\"text\">For more information, please visit the Investor Days page<\/span>\n            <\/a>\n    <\/div>                                    <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-9137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letter-to-shareholders","tag-investor-days-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendelgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}