Takeover De Kweker Purmerend and Texel concluded

The transaction concerning the takeover of the wholesale activities of De Kweker Purmerend and Texel by Sligro Food Group announced on 28 January 2016 was concluded today. Read the press release below. 

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Sligro Food Group acquires JAVA Foodservice of Belgium 

Sligro Food Group N.V., Veghel (NL), and Bejaco N.V., Rotselaar (B), announce that Sligro Food Group has acquired the entire share capital of Bejaco N.V. and its subsidiaries JAVA BVBA and Freshtrans BVBA, jointly known as JAVA Foodservice. 

JAVA Foodservice is a top-three player in the Belgian foodservice market, focusing specifically on the institutional and company catering market segments and several hotel chains. Sligro Food Group’s ambition is that JAVA Foodservice will grow further in its existing markets in Belgium over the next few years under the JAVA Foodservice name.

Koen Slippens, CEO of Sligro Food Group: “The acquisition of JAVA Foodservice is an important step forward in Sligro Food Group’s ambition to become a leading player on the Belgian foodservice market. Not only is JAVA a great company with considerable potential of its own, it will also support the start-up of the Sligro format in the Belgian market.

Wim Claes, CEO of JAVA Foodservice and The JAVA Coffee Company: “The Claes family is extremely proud of the way the company has evolved under its leadership. The family has thought carefully about the future of JAVA Foodservice. There was a growing realisation that the best scenario for maintaining and further reinforcing the market position, consisted of transferring the JAVA Foodservice activities to Sligro Food Group while retaining and further expanding The JAVA Coffee Company under the family’s management, in professional partnership with JAVA Foodservice and Sligro Food Group in the Netherlands.

Read more in the press release below (in English, Dutch or French).

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Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, March 23, 2016 

The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) of Sligro Food Group will be held on Wednesday, March 23th, 2016 at the offices of the Company, Corridor 11, Veghel. 

Shareholders of Sligro Food Group are invited to attend the Annual Meeting, that will take place on Wednesday, 23 March 2016, at the Company’s offices, Corridor 11, 5466 RB Veghel. The meeting will start at 10:30 hours. See the agenda below.

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Important dates, convocation, agenda and other documents can be found on the AGM Information page, under Investor Relations on this website. 

Publication Annual report 2015 

Sligro Food Group announces that the Annual report for 2015 is available with effect from today. 

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For a copy of the report please click below for the full version in PDF. For more information or a hard copy of the Annual report, please contact us by sending an e-mail to Mieke van der Valk: mvdvalk@sligro.nl

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Sligro Food Group acquires De Kweker's wholesale activities in Purmerend and Texel from Vroegop Ruhe & Co b.v. 

Sligro Food Group N.V. and Vroegop Ruhe & Co b.v. announce that they expect to reach agreement on the acquisition of De Kweker’s wholesaling activities in Purmerend and on Texel by Sligro Food Group. This covers the cash-and-carry wholesale outlet in Purmerend and a delivery wholesaler on Texel.

De Kweker’s activities generated total revenue of €17 million in 2015. They employ some 35 staff on a full-time basis, who will join Sligro Food Group. De Kweker focuses on restaurants, cafés and small-scale catering outlets and this is a seamless fit with Sligro Food Group’s foodservice activities. Sligro Food Group expects that the acquisition will contribute immediately to earnings per share. This is expected to increase Sligro Food Group’s share of the foodservice market by 0.2% per year.

Read more in the press release below.

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Presentation Annual Figures 2015 

On Thursday, January 21, Sligro Food Group presented the Annual Figures 2015 in Sligro Amsterdam. Watch the presentation below in PDF. 

Press conference
Thursday, January 21, 2016, 11.00 AM
Location: Sligro Amsterdam, Van der Madeweg 39, Amsterdam-Duivendrecht

Analyst Meeting
Thursday, January 21, 2016, 13.30 PM
Location: Sligro Amsterdam, Van der Madeweg 39, Amsterdam-Duivendrecht

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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.