SCA's presentation by Kersti Strandqvist, SVP Sustainability, at the Cheuvreux Climate Change 6 conference in Paris, May 6, 2011.
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SCA Group is a global hygiene and forest products company with net sales of SEK 106 billion in 2011, they have acquired Georgia-Pacific's European tissue operations and Everbeauty to become a leading hygiene company, and they have divested their packaging business while focusing on growing their hygiene products organically and through acquisitions in personal care and tissue.
Jan Johansson, CEO of SCA, discussed the company's major changes in 2012 including divesting packaging businesses, acquiring Georgia-Pacific's European tissue operations, and establishing a joint venture in Australia/New Zealand. SCA also acquired several hygiene product companies. Johansson outlined SCA's strategic priorities of efficiency, innovation, and growth. SCA has leading market positions globally and regionally in tissue, solid wood products, and hygiene products. Despite economic challenges, hygiene products show growth in emerging markets.
SCA hosted the Capital Markets Day in Stockholm. The Group-wide financial targets and strategy remains with a focus on efficiency, innovation, growth and sustainability. The target for return on capital employed for Tissue and Forest Products has been adjusted. In recent years, SCA has completed hygiene acquisitions and divested for example the packaging operations. In order to further strengthen profitability in the hygiene operations, measures are initiated for decreased costs and improved efficiency.
SCA's presentation by Kersti Strandqvist, SVP Sustainability, at the Cheuvreux Climate Change 6 conference in Paris, May 6, 2011.
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SCA Group is a global hygiene and forest products company with net sales of SEK 106 billion in 2011, they have acquired Georgia-Pacific's European tissue operations and Everbeauty to become a leading hygiene company, and they have divested their packaging business while focusing on growing their hygiene products organically and through acquisitions in personal care and tissue.
Jan Johansson, CEO of SCA, discussed the company's major changes in 2012 including divesting packaging businesses, acquiring Georgia-Pacific's European tissue operations, and establishing a joint venture in Australia/New Zealand. SCA also acquired several hygiene product companies. Johansson outlined SCA's strategic priorities of efficiency, innovation, and growth. SCA has leading market positions globally and regionally in tissue, solid wood products, and hygiene products. Despite economic challenges, hygiene products show growth in emerging markets.
SCA hosted the Capital Markets Day in Stockholm. The Group-wide financial targets and strategy remains with a focus on efficiency, innovation, growth and sustainability. The target for return on capital employed for Tissue and Forest Products has been adjusted. In recent years, SCA has completed hygiene acquisitions and divested for example the packaging operations. In order to further strengthen profitability in the hygiene operations, measures are initiated for decreased costs and improved efficiency.
- Organic sales growth and operating profit increased in Q3 2015 for the Group overall. Emerging markets saw strong growth while mature markets saw modest increases.
- Key events included acquiring Wausau Paper Corp, divesting businesses in Asia to integrate with Vinda, and intended closure of a paper machine to improve efficiency.
- Strategic priorities are increasing efficiency across the value chain and driving innovation and profitable growth.
We have presented a report for the second quarter of 2014 with continued sales growth, higher earnings and a higher margin compared with the same period a year ago. During the quarter, several innovations and product launches were carried out under the Libero, Libresse, TENA and Tork brands. The efficiency programs in the hygiene and forest products operations continue to deliver cost savings according to plan. Our Tissue and Forest Products business areas showed significant earnings growth. Personal Care was negatively impacted by higher raw material costs and negative exchange rate effects in emerging markets.
The SCA interim report was published on April 29 at approximately 8.00 CET. At the subsequent press conference CEO Jan Johansson held this presentation.
Through continued focus on our strategic priorities profitable growth, innovation and efficiency, we delivered favorable organic sales and earnings growth for the first quarter of 2016.
You are welcome to read or download SCA's presentation at the ABG SC Consumer Goods Seminar in Stockholm, Sweden.
SCA was represented by Johan Karlsson, Vice President, Investor Relations.
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http://www.sca.com/ir September 19, 2011 SCA hosted the Capital Markets Day in Stockholm. The strategy of recent years of focusing on costs, cash flow, capital efficiency and innovation remains firmly in place. Increased growth was added to the Group’s strategic agenda in 2010.
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SCA is a global hygiene products and paper company with net sales of SEK 109 billion in 2010. It has 45,000 employees in over 100 countries. In 2010, personal care accounted for 29% of sales and 30% of EBIT, tissue 27% of sales and 25% of EBIT, packaging 22% of sales and 16% of EBIT, and forest products 15% of sales and 16% of EBIT. SCA aims to grow through cost reductions, efficiency programs, innovations, and expanding in emerging markets where hygiene product penetration is currently low. Raw material costs increased significantly in 2010 but SCA increased prices for packaging and publication paper. SCA reported stable EBIT and higher earnings per
The interim report summarizes SCA's financial results for the first quarter of 2011. Key points include:
- Sales increased 6% compared to Q1 2010, with growth in hygiene and packaging businesses, particularly in emerging markets.
- Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) increased 10%, though costs were significantly higher, including a SEK 1.3 billion increase in raw material costs.
- Profit before tax also increased 10% compared to Q1 2010.
SCA has offered EUR 1.32 billion to acquire Georgia-Pacific's European tissue business. The acquisition is expected to increase SCA's earnings per share in the first year and by approximately SEK 1.70 with fully realized synergies. The acquisition would create a leading European tissue company and strengthen SCA's product offering, geographic reach, and presence in key markets and the AFH tissue industry. Substantial synergies of EUR 125 million are expected from improved supply chain efficiency and SG&A, enhancing tissue EBIT margins by 2-2.5 percentage points within 3 years.
The document summarizes an interim report for SCA for Q3 2012. It found that sales increased 16% due to acquisitions in tissue and strong growth in emerging markets, particularly for personal care and tissue products. EBIT increased 20% due to acquisitions, higher volumes, lower raw material costs, and cost savings. However, forest products faced lower demand and prices in European markets. Overall the hygiene business saw good sales growth and profitability while forest products faced challenging market conditions.
Net sales rose 15% (6% excluding exchange rate effects) to SEK 27,958m (24,234). Organic sales growth, which excludes exchange rate effects, acquisitions and divestments, was 6%. Operating profit, excluding items affecting comparability, rose 9% to SEK 2,872m (2,630).
The operating margin, excluding items affecting comparability, was 10.3% (10.9). Profit before tax, excluding items affecting comparability, rose 11% to SEK 2,602m (2,342). Items affecting comparability totaled SEK -122m (-247). Earnings per share were SEK 2.43 (2.12). Return on capital employed, excluding items affecting comparability, was 11.2% (11.0). Cash flow from current operations was SEK 1,246m (667).
The document provides an interim report for the first quarter of 2012 summarizing major business changes and financial results compared to the same period in 2011 and the previous quarter. Key points include the acquisition of several hygiene product companies and divestment of packaging businesses. Sales increased 4% year-over-year due to higher volumes and prices in hygiene products and higher forest product volumes. EBIT increased 7% excluding items from higher volumes and lower raw material costs.
The SCA reported on its performance in 2012. Key points include:
- Sales grew 11% due to acquisitions and strong growth in emerging markets, though the forest products business declined.
- EBIT increased 17% due to higher volumes, lower costs, and cost savings programs.
- In Q4, sales grew 21% and EBIT grew 16% compared to Q4 2011, led by growth in the hygiene business in emerging markets.
- For the full year, net income increased significantly and cash flow grew 30%, while debt was reduced.
- The company continued executing its strategy around efficiency, innovation, growth and sustainability.
The interim report summarizes the company's performance in the second quarter of 2012. It notes that the global economy slowed in 2012 due to issues in Western Europe. The hygiene products business saw good growth in emerging markets. Forest product sales and prices decreased in Europe. The company acquired several businesses and divested its packaging business. Sales increased 2% year-over-year due to growth in hygiene products, while EBIT grew 16% on higher volumes and lower costs. The personal care and tissue segments saw higher sales and profits from emerging markets. Forest products struggled with lower prices.
http://www.sca.com/ir SCA CFO Lennart persson held a presentation at the TMC seminar on September 22, 2011.
He talked about hygiene products sales increase, strategic focus areas, brands, market positions, innovation, growth potential for hygiene products, emerging markets, sustainability as a business driver.
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Morgan Stanley conference. Jan Johansson, President and CEO of SCA, provided an overview of the company. SCA is one of the world's largest hygiene products companies, with net sales of SEK 111 billion and 45,000 employees globally. Their hygiene business has grown significantly, now making up 60% of net sales compared to 42% in 1999. SCA has leading market positions globally and regionally within tissue, incontinence care, baby diapers, and feminine care. They outlined their strategic focus on growth in emerging markets and increased innovation to strengthen their market positions.
Operating profit, excl. restruct. costs, decreased by 5% (increased by 1% excl. exchange rate effects) to SEK 4,262m. Net sales decreased by 2% (increased by 5% excl. exchange rate effects and divestments) to SEK 52,064m. Earnings per share rose 8% (13% excl. exchange rate effects) to SEK 3.85.
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- Organic sales growth and operating profit increased in Q3 2015 for the Group overall. Emerging markets saw strong growth while mature markets saw modest increases.
- Key events included acquiring Wausau Paper Corp, divesting businesses in Asia to integrate with Vinda, and intended closure of a paper machine to improve efficiency.
- Strategic priorities are increasing efficiency across the value chain and driving innovation and profitable growth.
We have presented a report for the second quarter of 2014 with continued sales growth, higher earnings and a higher margin compared with the same period a year ago. During the quarter, several innovations and product launches were carried out under the Libero, Libresse, TENA and Tork brands. The efficiency programs in the hygiene and forest products operations continue to deliver cost savings according to plan. Our Tissue and Forest Products business areas showed significant earnings growth. Personal Care was negatively impacted by higher raw material costs and negative exchange rate effects in emerging markets.
The SCA interim report was published on April 29 at approximately 8.00 CET. At the subsequent press conference CEO Jan Johansson held this presentation.
Through continued focus on our strategic priorities profitable growth, innovation and efficiency, we delivered favorable organic sales and earnings growth for the first quarter of 2016.
You are welcome to read or download SCA's presentation at the ABG SC Consumer Goods Seminar in Stockholm, Sweden.
SCA was represented by Johan Karlsson, Vice President, Investor Relations.
http://www.sca.com/ir
http://www.sca.com/ir September 19, 2011 SCA hosted the Capital Markets Day in Stockholm. The strategy of recent years of focusing on costs, cash flow, capital efficiency and innovation remains firmly in place. Increased growth was added to the Group’s strategic agenda in 2010.
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SCA is a global hygiene products and paper company with net sales of SEK 109 billion in 2010. It has 45,000 employees in over 100 countries. In 2010, personal care accounted for 29% of sales and 30% of EBIT, tissue 27% of sales and 25% of EBIT, packaging 22% of sales and 16% of EBIT, and forest products 15% of sales and 16% of EBIT. SCA aims to grow through cost reductions, efficiency programs, innovations, and expanding in emerging markets where hygiene product penetration is currently low. Raw material costs increased significantly in 2010 but SCA increased prices for packaging and publication paper. SCA reported stable EBIT and higher earnings per
The interim report summarizes SCA's financial results for the first quarter of 2011. Key points include:
- Sales increased 6% compared to Q1 2010, with growth in hygiene and packaging businesses, particularly in emerging markets.
- Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) increased 10%, though costs were significantly higher, including a SEK 1.3 billion increase in raw material costs.
- Profit before tax also increased 10% compared to Q1 2010.
SCA has offered EUR 1.32 billion to acquire Georgia-Pacific's European tissue business. The acquisition is expected to increase SCA's earnings per share in the first year and by approximately SEK 1.70 with fully realized synergies. The acquisition would create a leading European tissue company and strengthen SCA's product offering, geographic reach, and presence in key markets and the AFH tissue industry. Substantial synergies of EUR 125 million are expected from improved supply chain efficiency and SG&A, enhancing tissue EBIT margins by 2-2.5 percentage points within 3 years.
The document summarizes an interim report for SCA for Q3 2012. It found that sales increased 16% due to acquisitions in tissue and strong growth in emerging markets, particularly for personal care and tissue products. EBIT increased 20% due to acquisitions, higher volumes, lower raw material costs, and cost savings. However, forest products faced lower demand and prices in European markets. Overall the hygiene business saw good sales growth and profitability while forest products faced challenging market conditions.
Net sales rose 15% (6% excluding exchange rate effects) to SEK 27,958m (24,234). Organic sales growth, which excludes exchange rate effects, acquisitions and divestments, was 6%. Operating profit, excluding items affecting comparability, rose 9% to SEK 2,872m (2,630).
The operating margin, excluding items affecting comparability, was 10.3% (10.9). Profit before tax, excluding items affecting comparability, rose 11% to SEK 2,602m (2,342). Items affecting comparability totaled SEK -122m (-247). Earnings per share were SEK 2.43 (2.12). Return on capital employed, excluding items affecting comparability, was 11.2% (11.0). Cash flow from current operations was SEK 1,246m (667).
The document provides an interim report for the first quarter of 2012 summarizing major business changes and financial results compared to the same period in 2011 and the previous quarter. Key points include the acquisition of several hygiene product companies and divestment of packaging businesses. Sales increased 4% year-over-year due to higher volumes and prices in hygiene products and higher forest product volumes. EBIT increased 7% excluding items from higher volumes and lower raw material costs.
The SCA reported on its performance in 2012. Key points include:
- Sales grew 11% due to acquisitions and strong growth in emerging markets, though the forest products business declined.
- EBIT increased 17% due to higher volumes, lower costs, and cost savings programs.
- In Q4, sales grew 21% and EBIT grew 16% compared to Q4 2011, led by growth in the hygiene business in emerging markets.
- For the full year, net income increased significantly and cash flow grew 30%, while debt was reduced.
- The company continued executing its strategy around efficiency, innovation, growth and sustainability.
The interim report summarizes the company's performance in the second quarter of 2012. It notes that the global economy slowed in 2012 due to issues in Western Europe. The hygiene products business saw good growth in emerging markets. Forest product sales and prices decreased in Europe. The company acquired several businesses and divested its packaging business. Sales increased 2% year-over-year due to growth in hygiene products, while EBIT grew 16% on higher volumes and lower costs. The personal care and tissue segments saw higher sales and profits from emerging markets. Forest products struggled with lower prices.
http://www.sca.com/ir SCA CFO Lennart persson held a presentation at the TMC seminar on September 22, 2011.
He talked about hygiene products sales increase, strategic focus areas, brands, market positions, innovation, growth potential for hygiene products, emerging markets, sustainability as a business driver.
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Morgan Stanley conference. Jan Johansson, President and CEO of SCA, provided an overview of the company. SCA is one of the world's largest hygiene products companies, with net sales of SEK 111 billion and 45,000 employees globally. Their hygiene business has grown significantly, now making up 60% of net sales compared to 42% in 1999. SCA has leading market positions globally and regionally within tissue, incontinence care, baby diapers, and feminine care. They outlined their strategic focus on growth in emerging markets and increased innovation to strengthen their market positions.
Operating profit, excl. restruct. costs, decreased by 5% (increased by 1% excl. exchange rate effects) to SEK 4,262m. Net sales decreased by 2% (increased by 5% excl. exchange rate effects and divestments) to SEK 52,064m. Earnings per share rose 8% (13% excl. exchange rate effects) to SEK 3.85.
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- Metsä Fibre is a world-leading producer of softwood pulp and its main brand is Botnia. It has four pulp mills in Finland and employs 850 people.
- The document discusses Metsä Fibre's key figures for 2014, the CEO's review of the pulp market and Metsä Fibre's performance in 2014, and the company's strategy.
- Metsä Fibre's strategy focuses on creating value for owners and customers, maintaining internal efficiency and responsible profitability, and continuously improving competence. The company plans to build a new bioproduct mill in Äänekoski, Finland to increase efficiency and environmental performance.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry organized a Finnish-Swedish Forest Friends Forever Conference in Hanaholmen, Espoo on 17-18 April. The purpose of the conference was to thank Sweden for the gift in honour of Finland’s 100 years of independence and to further enhance Finnish-Swedish cooperation in research and innovation and in forest policy.
Espoo, 17.–18.4.2018
This document provides an introduction to a session on sustainability presented at LDI Green Day 2011. It discusses introducing sustainability initiatives, assessing operations, ideas for various production areas like scenery, props, and lighting, and specific techniques or products. Speakers included Paul Brunner, Ellen E. Jones, and James McKernan discussing getting started with sustainability, greening theatre basics and stock scenery, assessing impacts, and ideas for scenery, paint, and lighting.
1) Cleantech refers to technologies, services, and solutions that help reduce environmental impacts, save energy and resources, and improve living environments.
2) Finland has developed strong cleantech expertise due to its harsh climate and lack of fossil fuels, and cleantech now represents over 1% of Finland's GDP.
3) Key Finnish cleantech strengths include a culture of innovation, high-level technology expertise, a focus on quality and reliability, and experience solving environmental challenges.
Birla Cellulose is a manufacturer of cellulosic fibers that takes a 360 degree approach to sustainability across its entire value chain. This includes responsible sourcing of wood, sustainable pulp and fiber manufacturing processes certified by various standards, product certifications, social and community programs, and full traceability through its supply chain. Birla Cellulose engages with stakeholders and communities through programs focused on safety, education, women's empowerment, and infrastructure development to build a more sustainable future.
Exciting times for business: the value of farm carbon footprinting up the sup...Farming Futures
This document discusses why an individual's carbon footprint matters. It notes that consumers are increasingly concerned about sustainability and the environment. Many companies are taking steps to reduce their carbon emissions in response to this consumer demand. Reducing carbon footprints also makes financial sense as farmers with lower emissions have lower costs of production. The entire supply chain from farm to consumer must work together to lower carbon footprints in order to remain competitive and defend against potential criticism of their environmental impacts.
Nature works overview Presented by Tony Seers -- SeePlasIndustry Network
NatureWorks is a leading biopolymer company that produces Ingeo, a proprietary biopolymer made from renewable resources like corn. It has a 150,000 ton plant in Nebraska and is working on a second plant in Southeast Asia. Ingeo biopolymers offer superior environmental benefits compared to traditional plastics like lower carbon footprint and additional end-of-life options. It is also price competitive and provides value to customers through performance, sustainability and emotional benefits. NatureWorks has an established global sales network and Ingeo is used across various applications like food packaging, fibers and durables.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Frank O'Connor at the Impact 2008 Conference in Glasgow about whether ecodesign is truly good design. It discusses how ecodesign aims to reduce environmental and social impacts through design. It notes that 80% of a product's impacts are determined at the design stage. However, ecodesign also faces conflicts with traditional design approaches. These include ecodesign being seen as optional, issues around globalization and consumption, true lifecycle costs not being considered, and resistance to change. The document provides examples to illustrate these challenges but also points to companies and designers that are embracing ecodesign as good business practice.
Tetra Pak is focused on environmental sustainability through its 2020 strategy. The strategy has three pillars: renew, reduce, recycle. It aims to renew materials with sustainable supplies, reduce environmental impacts across the value chain, and increase carton recycling rates. Tetra Pak uses renewable paperboard from well-managed forests and is innovating to use renewable polymers and less material in packaging. It has also increased the number of carton recyclers and the accessibility of carton recycling for consumers.
Resource efficiency in the pulp and paper industry - making more from our nat...EuropeanPaper
The Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) has published these illustrations showing resource efficiency examples in the pulp and paper industry.
We know that the world’s growing population is putting increasing pressure on global resources and that the world’s current consumption patterns are simply not sustainable in the longer term. As the world’s finite supply of fossil fuels diminishes, in direct contrast to the increasing demands of a larger population, we will need to move to a circular economy based on renewable resources and optimum efficiency. In contrast to the linear model of take, make, dispose, a circular economy is a framework that takes insights from living systems. It considers that our systems should work like organisms, processing nutrients that can be fed back into the cycle, whether biological or technical, which is where phrases such as “closed loop” or “regenerative” come in.
It’s also why we believe Europe’s paper industry has a very bright future – because it is already a benchmark model of resource efficiency and a perfect fit for the circular economy. It is inherently sustainable by nature: Based on renewable, recyclable raw materials, Europe’s paper industry can produce second-generation biofuels to replace crude oil as well as renewable bio-based products. It provides packaging solutions to avoid food waste and it uses residues from the woodworking industry as its raw materials.
Novozymes is a global leader in industrial biotechnology with over 6,000 employees. They produce enzymes and microorganisms that are used in a variety of industries such as food, detergents, biofuels, and more. Novozymes uses life cycle assessments to evaluate the environmental impact of their products and has found their solutions can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Their enzymes are also helping customers reduce water usage and waste in industries like textiles. Novozymes works closely with partners like Procter & Gamble and Nestle to integrate sustainable solutions into their product pipelines.
This document summarizes Ricoh's approach to sustainability and remanufacturing. It discusses Ricoh's goals of reducing environmental impact by 30% by 2030 and 87.5% by 2050 compared to 2000 levels through an eco-centric culture and technical innovation. Ricoh aims for zero waste to landfill and obtains 50% of materials from recycled or reused sources by 2050. The company focuses on resource conservation through remanufacturing used products and parts in its "Comet Circle" process to keep resources in use longer. Ricoh's Telford, UK site has achieved zero waste to landfill status since 2002 through rigorous segregation and finding markets for all waste materials.
Bio-plastics in Packaging; Innovations, Opportunities and Challenges discusses bio-plastics for packaging. It defines sustainability and differentiates between bio-based and biodegradable materials. Global demand for bio-plastics is predicted to triple by 2015. Challenges include lack of communication leading to "green-washing" and limited disposal infrastructure for biodegradable plastics which often end up in landfills. Overcoming these challenges requires collaboration between industry and government.
The document discusses the transition to a bio-based economy as the sixth industrial revolution. It presents UPM's EffNet program which focuses on resource efficiency, renewable and recyclable products, and innovation. The program supports UPM's continued improvement in reducing waste, water usage, and carbon emissions per tonne of paper produced. It also aims to integrate UPM's current operations and expertise into new knowledge areas and businesses like biocomposites, biochemicals, and renewable diesel to capitalize on wood's potential as a raw material. UPM is recognized as a sustainability leader and its total sustainability score has improved above industry averages.
This document discusses sustainability practices across the consumer durables industry. It covers the environmental impacts of producing, using, and disposing of consumer goods. It describes the risks at different stages of production like raw material extraction, material use, processing, and transportation. It also discusses regulations and sourcing standards, sustainability scorecards, the role of technology, and specific practices by companies. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of more sustainable production and consumption patterns to optimize resource use as called for in EU policy.
The document provides an introduction to the Bright Green Forssa Region, which aims to be an attractive eco-region by 2025. It highlights the region's strengths in environmental business and research, including its location in southern Finland and expertise in areas like recycling, biogas production, and renewable energy. The top business areas are described as environment and energy, green logistics, well-being, and technology. The region's universities and companies are leaders in pioneering recycling and renewable energy projects. The goal is to further develop the bioeconomy and make the Forssa region a global leader in environmental technologies and sustainable development.
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SCA reported strong results for Q2 2016. Organic operating profit growth was strong due to good organic sales growth in hygiene products and emerging markets. Cash flow was also strong. Efficiency gains contributed positively despite provisions for anti-trust and tax cases. The divestment of businesses in Asia closed on April 1 for integration with Vinda. Seven new product innovations were introduced, including for TENA, Okay, Lotus, Zewa, and Tork.
- SCA reported good organic growth in sales and operating profit in Q2 2015, with strong growth in emerging markets. Cash flow was also strong.
- Personal care sales grew 12% with 6% organic growth, driven by price increases, higher volumes, and cost savings. Tissue sales grew 15% with 4% organic growth.
- Operating profit increased for both personal care and tissue, despite higher raw material costs. Forest products profit grew 39% on higher prices and volumes.
- The report highlighted continued strategic priorities of efficiency, innovation, and profitable growth, with several new product launches and investments.
In 2014 SCA delivered its highest profit before tax ever and good organic sales growth. We increased our operating profit, excluding items affecting comparability, by SEK 1,468m. We achieved this thanks to the continued work with our strategic priorities – growth, innovation and efficiency.
The document summarizes information about SCA Group, a leading global hygiene and forest products company. Some key details include:
- SCA Group has annual sales of SEK 99 billion, 44,000 employees, and sells products in about 100 countries.
- Major brands and market positions include TENA and Tork as leading global brands, China's third largest tissue company, and Europe's largest private forest owner.
- The company has undergone transformation through acquisitions, divestments, efficiency programs, and investments in emerging markets to drive growth.
- Financial targets include annual organic sales growth of 5-7% for Personal Care and 3-4% for Tissue, and a return on capital employed
The document summarizes a presentation given by Jan Johansson, President and CEO of SCA Group, at a UBS conference in Boston. It provides details on SCA's financial results, including sales of SEK 99 billion and 44,000 employees. It also outlines SCA's transformation through acquisitions, divestments, efficiency programs, and focus on hygiene, tissue, and forest products. SCA's priorities are described as efficiency, innovation, and growth to drive sales increases, especially in emerging markets.
This is SCAs presentation of the Year-end Report 2013. The presentation was held by CEO Jan Johansson on January 29. SCA further strengthened its position in emerging markets in 2013. During the fourth quarter of 2013, the offer for the Chinese tissue company Vinda was completed, and SCA is today the majority owner of Vinda with 51.4% ownership in the company. SCA decided during the year to invest in local production of hygiene products in India and has launched Libero baby diapers and Tempo consumer tissue in the Indian market.
The efficiency programs in the hygiene and forest products operations are continuing according to plan.
Consolidated net sales for 2013, excluding exchange rate effects and divestments, rose 10% compared with a year ago. The increase is mainly attributable to acquisitions and higher volumes. Operating profit, excluding items affecting comparability, exchange rate effects and divestments, rose 19%. Cost savings, higher volumes, the acquisition in Europe and gains on forest swaps contributed to the earnings improvement. Operating profit for Personal Care and Tissue, excluding items affecting comparability, exchange rate effects and divestments, rose 4% and 27%, respectively. Operating profit for Forest Products, excluding items affecting comparability, rose 35%. Profit before tax, excluding items affecting comparability, exchange rate effects and divestments, rose 25%.
Consolidated net sales for the fourth quarter of 2013, excluding exchange rate effects and divestments, rose 1% compared with the same period a year ago. The increase is mainly attributable to higher volumes. Operating profit, excluding items affecting comparability, exchange rate effects and divestments, rose 31%. Cost savings and gains on forest swaps contributed to the earnings improvement. The corresponding profit for Tissue rose 18%, while profit for Personal Care decreased by 12% as a result of lower earnings for baby diapers associated with an increase in marketing activities. However, incontinence care products and feminine care products had a positive earnings impact. Operating profit for Forest Products, excluding items affecting comparability, rose 188%. Profit before tax, excluding items affecting comparability, exchange rate effects and divestments, rose 38%.
SCA´s net sales for the first nine months rose 14% excluding exchange rate effects and divestments and amounted to SEK 66,577m. Operating profit rose 15% excluding items affecting comparability and exchange rate effects to SEK 6,885m (6,224).
Consolidated net sales for the first quarter of 2013, excluding exchange rate effects and divestments, rose 20% compared with the same period a year ago. The increase is mainly attributable to acquisitions and higher volumes.
Operating profit excluding exchange rate effects and items affecting comparability rose 25%. The corresponding profit for Personal Care and Tissue rose 27% and 40%, respectively, while profit for Forest Products decreased by 22%. Forest Products includes positive earning effects of SEK 121m attributable to land swaps and negative exchange rate effects of approximately SEK 110m. Profit before tax, excluding exchange rate effects and items affecting comparability, rose 34%. The Group’s operating cash flow improved by 5%, to approximately SEK 1.9bn.
SCA is a leading global hygiene and forest products company. The Group develops and produces sustainable personal care, tissue and forest products. Sales are conducted in about 100 countries under many strong brands. The Group has about 36,000 employees and sales in 2012 amounted to SEK 85bn (EUR 9.8bn). Read more on www.sca.com.
SCA reported its year-end results for 2011. Sales increased 4% over the previous year driven by higher volumes and prices in the hygiene business. EBIT remained flat due to higher raw material costs and currency impacts offsetting the increased sales and cost savings. Profit before tax decreased 3% for the full year. For the fourth quarter, sales increased 1% while EBIT grew 1% as higher prices were offset by increased raw material costs and currency effects. The company proposed a 5% increase in dividend and discussed several strategic acquisitions and divestments.
This document provides an overview of SCA, a global hygiene and paper company. It discusses SCA's business areas, strategy, priorities, and approach to innovation. Specifically:
1) SCA develops, produces, and markets personal care products, tissue, packaging, and forest products. It has sales in over 100 countries and around 45,000 employees.
2) SCA's strategy focuses on sustainably developing value-added products and services within its business areas to improve quality of life. Its strategic priorities are costs/cash flow, capital efficiency, innovation, and growth.
3) SCA prioritizes innovation to drive profitable growth. Its innovation process is based on customer/consumer insights
http://www.sca.com/ir Mats Berencreutz, Executive Vice President at SCA, hold a presentation at the Handelsbanken consumer seminar in Stockholm, December 2, 2011. The presentation focused on increased sales of hygiene products, strategic focus areas, sustainability, innovation, growth potential for hygiene products and the binding offer for Georgia Pacific’s European tissue operations.
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The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
This presentation provides valuable insights into effective cost-saving techniques on AWS. Learn how to optimize your AWS resources by rightsizing, increasing elasticity, picking the right storage class, and choosing the best pricing model. Additionally, discover essential governance mechanisms to ensure continuous cost efficiency. Whether you are new to AWS or an experienced user, this presentation provides clear and practical tips to help you reduce your cloud costs and get the most out of your budget.
FREE A4 Cyber Security Awareness Posters-Social Engineering part 3Data Hops
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TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
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Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
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Predictive maintenance is a proactive approach that anticipates equipment failures before they happen. At the forefront of this innovative strategy is Artificial Intelligence (AI), which brings unprecedented precision and efficiency. AI in predictive maintenance is transforming industries by reducing downtime, minimizing costs, and enhancing productivity.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
2. SCA Group
Major changes
Acquisition of Georgia-Pacific’s European tissue operations
Divestment of the Packaging business, excluding
the two kraftliner mills
Established joint venture in Australia/New Zealand
Acquisition of Everbeauty an Asian hygiene products company
Increased shareholding in Vinda
Acquisition of PISA in Chile
New hygiene organization
Acquisition of PLF a French solid-wood products company
2 June 2012
3. SCA Group
After completion of ongoing transactions
Net sales of SEK 92bn
37,000 employees and sales in more than 100
countries
World’s second-largest hygiene company
TEN and Tork are leading global brands for
incontinence care and AFH tissue
Europe’s largest private forest owner
Europe’s second-largest sawmill company
3 June 2012
5. Sustainability – a business approach
Improved competitive edge
Reduced cost
Reduced risk level
Attract investors
Employer branding
Strengthen the brand
5 June 2012
6. Sustainability strategy
Value creation for people, nature and business
Economy
Nature People
Sustainability is an integral part of business operations
6 June 2012
7. What is measured gets done
People targets Nature targets
Health & Safety Climate & energy
Hygiene solutions Water
Sustainable innovations Fibre sourcing and
Code of Conduct biodiversity
7 June 2012
8. Existing sustainability targets
Carbon dioxide emissions Improved water usage
SCA will reduce its emissions SCA will reduce its water
from fossil fuels and from consumption in water stressed
purchased electricity and heating regions with 10% by 2015, with
by 20% by the year 2020, with 2010 as a reference year. All pulp
2005 as a reference year. and paper mills will employ
mechanical and biological water
treatment plants by 2015.
Responsible use of wood raw Code of Conduct compliance
material SCA’s Code of Conduct applies to
No fresh fibre-based material all employees at all locations
comes from controversial worldwide.
sources*. Target also includes
pulp and containerboard.
*Illegally logged timber, Timber from forests with high conservation value and/or timber from
areas where human rights or traditional rights of indigenous people are being violated.
8
8 June 2012
9. Sustainability for profitable business
Economic value creation
We help customers achieve their
sustainability targets
EU Green Public procurement
Graphic paper – OTTO, Metro, REWE,
Bertelsmann
Publishing companies - IPC Media,Bauer
Media, Hearst Magazines, Future Publishing
DIY markets - Buildbase, Homebase
Starbucks
Empire State building
Retailers
FSC
9 June 2012
10. Energy consumption affects costs
Value creation for nature
New lime kiln in Östrand first in the world
to substitute fuel oil for wood powder
– Reduces carbon dioxide emissions by
80% and cost by SEK 50m annually
ESAVE
– 1,700 small-scale projects has generated
annual savings of SEK 700m since 2003
– 360 projects in 2011 resulted in a reduction
of carbon dioxide emissions by 54,000
tonnes and a 1.7% reduction in energy
consumption per product tonne
10 June 2012
11. Solutions for a growing middle class
Economic value creation
Increased share of net sales from
emerging markets
New business models – customised
products and solutions
Increased interest in sustainability in
emerging markets
11 June 2012
12. Incontinence solutions for dignity
Value creation for people
An ageing population creates growth opportunities
Being able to stay at home instead of in residential
homes adds to dignity and quality of life
Lower cost for society with home care compared to
residential homes
12 June 2012
13. Growth opportunities in China
Value creation for people
New Innovation Centre in Shanghai delivers
innovative products building on customer and
consumer insight – TENA Belt
Dialogue with policy makers
Education of 6,000 nurses
Home care pilot
Everbeauty acquisition
13 June 2012
14. Resource efficiency favours environment
Value creation for nature
Life Cycle Assessments improve customer offering
– Thinner incontinence care products, diapers and feminine
care products reduce carbon footprint and improve function
and fit
– TorkXpressnap reduce consumption by at least 25%,
positive for the environment and for the customers
14 June 2012
15. Forests as carbon absorbers
SCA is Europe’s largest private forest owner –
FSC certified since 1999
Our forests have a net growth of about 1% annually
Our forests absorb as much carbon dioxide as is
discharged from our entire production – 2.6 Mtonnes
Well-managed forests contribute to solve the climate
change problem
15 June 2012
16. Innovative solutions
Great potential in renewable energy
Wind power, 5 TWh
– SCA/Statkraft initiative
– SCA/Fred.Olsen Renewables
– SCA proprietary project
– Many potential wind areas on SCA land
– Leasing of locations
Biofuels
– Biofuels account for 45% of SCA’s fuel consumption
– Deliveries of 3.2 TWh in 2011
– Logging residuals and by-products from forest
industry becomes biofuel
– Only 1/3 of potential of logging residuals is utilised
New business unit for renewable energy
solutions, SCA Energy
16 June 2012