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- 1. The Company and its Markets
- 2. Sales process and Value Proposition
- 3. Product development
- Financial highlights
- Outlook and Summary
- Appendices
- I Industry consolidation
- II Detailed financials
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- One of the world’s leading developers and manufacturers of mission
critical power control solutions
- Supplies industrial, healthcare and technology sectors
- Blue chip client list
- Zero exposure to consumer products
- Historic and ongoing investment in R&D has built a market leading
product portfolio
- Focus on higher margin own IP sales
- Significant manufacturing capacity established to further penetrate blue
chip clients
- Network of 27 offices (and 19 distributors) across North America, Europe
and Asia
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- Business transformed since Listing in 2000:
- Listed in 2000 by the existing management team as a specialist
distributor of power control components
- Since then the business has been moved up the value chain to become a
designer and manufacturer with its own IP, growing gross margins from
28% to over 44%;
- Established a number of design centres which have developed a portfolio
of industry leading products transforming XP into a technology-led
business;
- Established the largest most technical direct sales force in the
industry with 27 locations throughout North America, Europe and Asia;
- Rolled out a proprietary database across the sales force to capture all
key project information for sales management and product development
purposes; and
- Established a significant manufacturing facility in China to further
penetrate a blue chip customer base.
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- A power controller is a piece of electronic hardware that performs the
following functions:
- Converts electrical power from one voltage to another;
- Converts alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) or vice versa,
or converts one DC voltage to another DC voltage;
- Meets the critical safety requirement of shielding the user from the
dangerous mains supply;
- Filters electrical noise and the spikes and dips in power from the mains
supply so it does not produce undesirable effects in the customer’s
equipment;
- Prevents electrical noise from being transferred into the mains supply
by the customer’s equipment; and
- Meets the increasingly demanding regulatory, legislative and environmental
requirements.
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- We do business with the following proportions of the S&P 500
Equipment Manufacturers:
- Industrial 73%
- Healthcare 94%
- Technology 69%
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- Penetration - Our Blue Chip customer base provides good opportunities
to win new product programs from
their multiple engineering teams
- Healthcare - Global population growth and ageing is increasing the
demand for medical equipment together with accelerating innovation and
sophistication of medical diagnostic equipment
- Efficiency – growing volume of regulation on efficient power usage and
limiting harmful consequences to the environment
- Legislation – increasing legislation relating to the amount of energy
consumed by electronic equipment when it is not working but in standby
mode
- New Products – Customers’ new product designs which require less space
and heat generation
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- Driven by sales experts collecting intelligence from:
- Pending legislation
- Global sales offices
- Industry directors
- Huge customer database which records all projects
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- Own IP revenue £53.9M + 11%
- Gross margin 44.2% +5%
- Earnings per share* 34.8 pence +11%
- Operating cash flow +23%
- Dividend 21p per share +5%
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- Exploit market leading sales resource
- Increase pace of new product releases
- Improve penetration of top accounts utilising new production facility
and new products
- New factory to open in Q2
- Trading year to date is in line with expectations
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- XP Power operates in a $2 Billion sector of the power control market.
- The No. 1 competitor (Lambda) was acquired by TDK of Japan.
- The No. 3 competitor (Cherokee) was recently acquired by private equity
(Gores Corp).
- The No. 4 competitor (Astec) is owned by Emerson who have been a serial
acquirer in other sectors of the power control market.
- Three of the remaining top 30 competitors have been sold in the past 12
months.
- XP Power has been an active acquirer since 2000 – investing more than
£40 Million on 13 acquisitions. The current share price negates further
acquisitions.
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