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XP Power – Investor Presentation
May 2009
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Agenda
  • 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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1. The Company and its Markets
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Introduction to XP Power
  • 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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XP Power – Strategic Development
  • 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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What is a power controller?
  • 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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Product Examples
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Blue Chip Customer Base
  • We do business with the following proportions of the S&P 500 Equipment Manufacturers:
  • Industrial 73%
  • Healthcare 94%
  • Technology 69%
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Growth Drivers
  • 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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2. Sales Process and Value Proposition
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3. Product Development
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New Products Pipeline
  • 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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Our Product Development Resources
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Product Development
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Own IP Revenues Drive Gross Margin Increase
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Kunshan – New Factory
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4. Financials (See Appendix II for detailed financials)
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2008 Financial Highlights – record results
  • 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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Currency Movements
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Dividend History
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5. Outlook
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Revenue Outlook
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Gross Margin Outlook
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Expenses Outlook
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Summary
  • 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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Appendix I - Industry Consolidation
  • 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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Appendix II - Income and Expenditure Statement
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Cash Flow Statements
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