Bucher Industries : Annual press and analysts’ conference financial year 2022
February 24, 2023 at 12:17 am EST
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analysts' conference
24 February 2023
Our contribution, for the long-term and sustainable
Beverages
Our passion is to engineer trusted machinery solutions …
… to sustainably
− feed the world,
− produce and preserve beverages,
− and to create, maintain and clean infrastructure.
For a safe and healthy life for all.
Food
Infrastructure
Order book increased
Performance: order book
CHFm
4'500
4'000
3'948
3'858
3'500
3'206
3'106
3'597
3'000
3'065
3'008
2'837
3'176
2'500
2'741
1'873
2'081
2'000
11%
1'500
1'137
1'019
1'081
1'000
500
0
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Order book
Net sales
Order intake
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Increase in sales and operating profit margin
Group: 2022 at a glance
Sales up by 13% and increase in operating profit margin to a very good 11.8%
Kuhn Group: continued strong demand for agricultural machines;
increase in sales, and operating profit margin only slightly below the previous year's high level
Bucher Municipal: normalisation of demand for municipal vehicles;
sales at the previous year's level and operating profit margin slightly lower
Bucher Hydraulics: weakening of the strong momentum in the hydraulics markets; increase in sales and operating profit margin
Bucher Emhart Glass: continued high demand for glass containers; significant increase in sales and operating profit margin
Bucher Specials: diverging market developments;
increase in sales, overall, and stable operating profit margin
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Strong increase in sales and profitability
Performance: overview
CHFm
Change
2022
2021
%
%1)
%2)
Order intake
3'858
3'948
-2.3
1.5
0.7
Net sales
3'597
3'176
13.2
17.2
16.5
Order book
2'081
1'873
11.1
15.9
14.2
Operating profit (EBITDA)
511
437
17.0
% of net sales
14.2%
13.7%
Operating profit (EBIT)
425
352
20.8
% of net sales
11.8%
11.1%
Average number of FTEs
14'053
13'375
5.1
4.6
Employees at 31 December
14'876
13'835
7.5
4.2
Adjusted for currency effects
Adjusted for currency and acquisition effects
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Bucher Industries AG is a Switzerland-based company engaged in the development and manufacture of machinery and equipment used for a range of purposes, such as harvesting, producing and packaging healthy foods, keeping cities clean and roads safe or hydraulic systems. The Companyâs operations are structured into five segments: specialized agricultural machinery (Kuhn Group); municipal vehicles (Bucher Municipal, including the subsidiary J. Hvidtved Larsen A/S); hydraulic components (Bucher Hydraulics); manufacturing equipment for the glass container industry (Emhart Glass); systems and technologies for the production of wine, fruit juice and instant products, and for dewatering sewage sludge, as well as a distributorship for tractors and agricultural machinery in Switzerland (Bucher Specials). On March 28, 2014, it acquired Montana, a Brazilian manufacturer of crop sprayers and fertilizer spreaders, specializing in self-propelled crop sprayers.
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