Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders 2012
2011: Renta Corporacion returns to profits• 2011 is a turning point in the company history
• The syndicated loan renegotiation provides stability to the company
• The company forecasts 6 M € net profit for the first half year
Barcelona, June 20, 2012
Renta Corporación's Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders
has been held today in Barcelona and has approved the annual
accounts and management reports for the year 2011, as well as
the performance of the Board of Directors.
The Ordinary General Meeting has started with the Chairman's
speech. Luis Hernández de Cabanyes, additionally to the
balance of the year, has emphasized the company's project and
its potential growth. In his speech to the shareholders, the
chairman has highlighted the return to profits after three
years of large losses and has forecasted the results for the
first half of 2012, with an around EUR 6 million net profit,
clarifying that "the financial agreement has had a positive
effect in achieving these results". Throughout his speech he
has emphasized the company's strict discipline in his policy
of reducing recurrent costs, which reached 38% in 2011 and
more than 75% accumulated since 2007, and liquidity as
priority items in the daily management. Under these
conditions and despite the "complex and volatile environment
we are living" Hernández de Cabanyes is convinced that "Renta
Corporacion is a consolidated project and is in a momentum of
extraordinary potential, with a management model based on
rigor, realism, transparency and tenacity, all these
qualities will contribute to the success of Renta
Corporacion."
After the speech of the chairman, Renta Corporacion's CEO,
David Vila, who has been appointed in December 2011, reviewed
the main figures of last year where the company obtained a
net profit of EUR 3.3 million, the debt decreased to EUR
195.6 million and the incomes raised up to EUR 156.7 million.
David Vila has highlighted to shareholders that 2011 was a
"key year to turn over the company", as in May, a new
financial debt agreement has been reached with very
favourable conditions that allowed the company to reduce the
debt to EUR 122 million and also because the exercise was a
turning point in the results. The CEO has also emphasized the
opportunity for Renta Corporacion to manage assets owned by
financial institutions, as "we have a business model
contrasted and efficient to become the perfect partner to
manage real estate portfolios from financial entities", he
added. Throughout his presentation, David Vila wanted to
highlight that Renta Corporacion has reached to a comfortable
stability level from a financial point of view and that the
company focuses its efforts on developing its business model
and the margin generation from the ordinary activity of the
Group.
The following table shows comparatively the most important
figures of 2011 towards 2010.
Net result 3.3 M€ (84.9) M€
Income 156.7 M€ 61.2 M€
Ordinary overheads and personnel 7.7 M€ 11.6 M€
Net debt 195.6 M€ 297.5 M€
2011 has been important for the company due to two
milestones:
1. Return to the company profits after three years of large
losses. In 2011 Renta Corporacion achieved EUR 3.3 million
positive net profits versus a loss of EUR -84.9 million in
2010. It must be highlighted that the profit achieved in 2011
as well as the one on the first quarter of 2012 of EUR
0.5 million included extraordinary results, the company is
fully confident that will gradually obtain it through
ordinary business.
2. The financial debt agreement reached on May with financial
entities on the long-term debt. The scope of this agreement
is specially significant and strategic because it allowed a
substantial reduction of debt and financial costs; and the
amortization of the remaining debt is closely related to the
sale of the assets in guarantee. The agreement entailed, on
the one hand, the sale of assets worth in EUR 117.9 million
and, on the other hand, a profit-sharing loan with a maturity
of
10 years (54.5 M €) and another credit of 127 M € with a
maturity of 8 years, that will be repaid with the sale of
assets acquired before 2009 or when a financial entity
exercise its right to repay, total or partially its debt,
through the acquisition of one or more assets. This has been
the case occurred last May 2012 when two financial entities
repaid its debt position with the acquisition of
"La Escocesa" by EUR 36 million.
For more information:
www.rentacorporacion.comTeresa Lloret.
93 418 53 87 / 656 800 551 tlloret@kreabgavinanderson.com
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