Rotterdam, The Netherlands (11 november 2015) - IMCD N.V. (“IMCD” or “Company”), a leading distributor of specialty chemicals and food ingredients, today announces the first nine months 2015
results.
Highlights
• Gross profit growth of 14% to EUR 249.4 million (+11% on a constant currency basis)
• Operating EBITA increase of 17% to 96.3 EUR million (+14% on a constant currency basis)
• Net result before amortisation and non-recurring items EUR 63.6 million (first nine months of 2014: EUR 35.1 million)
• Cash EPS EUR 1.20
Piet van der Slikke, CEO, commented: 'We can look back on a good first nine months of 2015. Cash generation is in line with our objectives and the contribution to growth came from existing businesses and from newly acquired companies, mainly US based MF Cachat. The integration with Cachat is on track. We remain
focussed on margin improvement and optimising the execution of our business model.'
Key figures
EUR million Jan. 1 - Sept. 30 2015 Jan. 1 - Sept. 30 2014 change change fx adj.
change
Revenue 1,139.4 1,041.4 98.0 9% 7%
Gross profit 249.4 219.7 29.7 14% 11%
Gross profit in % of revenue 21.9% 21.1% 0.8%
Operating EBITA1 96.3 82.5 13.8 17% 14%
Operating EBITA in % of revenue 8.5% 7.9% 0.5%
Conversion margin2 38.6% 37.6% 1.0%
Net Result before amortisation / non recurring
items 63.6 35.1 28.5 81% 75%
Free cash flow3 80.8 55.4 25.4 46%
Cash conversion margin4 81.8% 65.5% 16.3%
Earnings per share (weighted) 0.90
Cash earnings per share (weighted)5 1.20
Number of full time employees end of period 1,685 1,521 164 11%
1 Result from operating activities before amortization of intangibles and non-recurring items
2 Operating EBITA in percentage of Gross profit
3 Operating EBITDA plus/less changes in working capital less capital expenditures
4 Free cash flow in percentage of Operating EBITDA
5 Earnings before amortisation net of taks

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