Q3 2024 Embellence Group AB (publ) Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- Embellence Group AB (OSTO:EMBELL) achieved a significant improvement in gross margin, reaching 60.7% compared to 57.7% in the previous year.
- The company's manufacturing unit experienced a remarkable sales growth of 97%, nearly doubling compared to last year.
- Year-to-date sales growth stands at 5%, with an improved EBITDA margin of 14.6% compared to 12.5% the previous year.
- The company is successfully taking market share in the Nordic market, indicating competitive strength.
- Direct-to-consumer sales and hospitality segments are performing well and in line with company plans.
- The company faced a weak sales quarter with a 7% decline in net sales, primarily due to cautious retail channels in Europe.
- Several brands, including Cole & Son, Wall & Deco, and Papain Palina, experienced soft sales, particularly in Europe.
- The retail environment remains challenging with low footfall in showrooms and retail stores across key markets like Sweden, Italy, and the UK.
- The company does not expect solid market growth until 2025, indicating ongoing market challenges.
- High interest costs have impacted financial performance, although efforts are being made to reduce these costs.
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Thank you. Yes, welcome to Embellence report for Q3 2024.
My name is Olle Svensk and I'm the CEO and today as usual is currently our CFO.
Well, needless to say sales wise was a weak quarter with reduced orders from a very cautious retail channel.
What was positive though was that our efforts to improve our margins are continuing to pay off the gross margins reaching 7% in the quarter compared to 50.7 last year and our margin also improved and reached 15.1% and our manufacturing unit or fabric continues to win market share it almost double. It's yes, moving on to brand new, the part in recent recent cautious approach and let me your capital markets day in May. We don't expect to see solid market grow until 2025.
On the positive side though, we saw a strong product mix and that was key in lifting the group's overall gross margin to 60.7%.
Manufacturing. Well, we are winning market share in the Nordic market. The team's work to make our manufacturing offer more
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