June 2011 - Preliminary Results for the year ended 31 March 2011
| H1 | H2 | Full Year | Full Year | |
| Continuing Operations | 30.09.10 | 31.03.11 | 31.03.11 | 31.03.10 |
| Revenue | £52.04m | £54.05m | £106.09m | £85.94m |
| Underlying EBITDA* | £2.48m | £2.78m | £5.26m | £2.13m |
| Underlying Pre-tax Profit* | £1.72m | £2.05m | £3.77m | £0.92m |
| Pre-tax Profit/ (loss) | £1.48m | £1.04m | £2.52m | (£2.81m) |
| Operating Cash Generation | (£0.14m) | (£0.91m) | (£1.05m) | £3.91m |
| Net Debt | £5.63m | £7.14m | £7.14m | £4.68m |
*Underlying profit and EBITDA is calculated before intangible amortisation, IFRS 2 charges, restructuring costs.
Key points
- Sales led focus yielding the desired outcome
- Geographically:
- Asia continued to grow and provides firm foundation
- UK this year’s star performer, £3m swing into profitability
- US/Mainland Europe improved to break-even
Key metrics:
- Gross Margin improved to 25.2% (2010: 24.4%)
- EBITDA margin up to 5.0% (2010: 2.5%)
- ROCE 8.7% (2010: 2.4%)
Firm foundations in place
- TR Direct (Day to day UK Transactional sales)
- Investment in ‘Automotive Centre of Excellence’ in Holland
- Global sales strategy – increasing representation in China, India, USA and UK
Encouraging start to the new fiscal year
“Trifast has clearly enjoyed the best of the global recovery in customer demand “catch up” for re-stocking, which now allows our strategy to develop market share to come into its own. These plans embrace most of our individual business teams across the Group but with special focus in Asia, the UK and America, and we look forward to reporting our progress as we go through the year.”
Malcolm Diamond, Chairman & Jim Barker, CEO
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