Milkiland, a dairy group with assets in Ukraine, Russia and Poland, saw net loss of EUR 7.28 million in January-June 2019, which is 2.9 times more than a year ago.
According to a report of the group on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), consolidated revenue in January-June 2019 slightly fell to EUR 65.88 million, and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) fell by 85.3%, to EUR 0.53 million.
“This stable result was triggered by significantly higher top-line in Ukraine (+c.36% year-over-year) compensated by lower sales in Russia and Poland (c. 8.5% and c. 45% on year-over-year basis, respectively). Positive dynamics of the group’s sales in Ukraine in H1 2019 relied on the higher sales of butter, stable sales of whole-milk products partly offset by the declined sales of cheese,” the company said in the document.
Lower top-line in Russia was fully triggered by the decline of whole-milk products sales, while in Poland the group faced the drop of cheese and dry milk products sales both in volume and value terms due to shorten operations in this country.
As the result of the lower cheese sales in Ukraine and Poland the group’s overall sales in Cheese&Butter segment in the reporting period declined by 19% to EUR 19.7 million on year-over-year basis, the share of this segment revenues in the total revenues of the group slid from 37% in H1 2018 to 30% in H1 2019.
Whole-milk product segment still being the largest contributor to the Group’s revenues in H1 2019 (with the share of 48% vs 50% of the total revenues in H1 2018) demonstrated a 4% correction in value terms, caused mostly by the decline of the sales volumes in Russia by c. 10% in comparison with the same period of 2018.
The group said that better pricing at the global market of dry milk products contributed to noticeable growth of the revenues of Ingredients segment, which increased by c. 62% in the first half of 2019 in comparison with the same period of the last year on the back of almost two-fold increase of the sales volumes of these products. The share of the respective revenues of the segment in the total revenues of the group, consequently advanced from 14% in H1 2018 to 22% in the reporting period.
Operating loss over the period fell by 80.8%, to EUR 9.11 million. Gross profit decreased 24.2%, to EUR 8.57 million.
“Total liabilities increased by c.15% as of 30 June 2019 in comparison with 30 June 2018 mainly resulting from a c.21% growth in current liabilities in turn triggered by the noticeable increase of trade and other payables from c. EUR 49 million as of June 30, 2018 to c. EUR 80.4 million on the same date of the current year,” the company said.
Avangard agricultural holding, the largest egg producer in Ukraine, in January-June 2019 saw $110.89 million in net loss, which is 3.1 times more than a year ago.
According to a company report posted on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) on Friday, consolidated revenue grew by 24.6%, to $84.78 million, and gross loss – 14 times, to $65.1 million.
Export revenue for the reporting period increased 1.6 time, to $44.8 million, and its share amounted to 53% of the company’s consolidated revenue.
In the first half of the year, egg production amounted to 1.78 billion pieces, which is 44% more than in the same period in 2018, their sales grew 1.9 times, to 1.59 billion pieces, exports – 2.6 times, to 785 million pieces.
The average selling price of eggs was UAH 1.23 per piece, excluding VAT, which is 24% lower than the level of the first half of last year, in U.S. dollars – $0.046 per piece, excluding VAT (25% less).
The production of dry egg products during the reporting period amounted to 2,380 tonnes (34% less), their sales also decreased 34%, to 2,280 tonnes. Export of dry egg products amounted to 1,590 tonnes and decreased by 46%.
The average selling price of dried egg products was $3.84 per kg, an increase of 4% from January-June 2018.
As of June 30, the total number of birds was 16 million, which is 15% more compared to the same date last year. The number of laying hens amounted to 11.2 million (35% more).
According to the report, negotiations with creditors on restructuring are ongoing.
Net cash used in investing activities increased to $14.2 million from $1.2 million in the first half of 2018 as a result of an increase in investment. In general, the net cash outflow in the reporting period amounted to $20.9 million compared to a net cash inflow of $4.1 million as of June 30, 2018.
As of June 30, 2019, the total debt of the company increased slightly compared to December 31, 2018 and amounted to $391.5 million. Net debt increased 6.5%, to $390.9 million. Issue of the company’s eurobonds maturing on October 29, 2018 amounted to 60% of total debt.
The mobile communications operator lifecell in April-June 2019 saw a rise of 41.8% in net loss year-over-year, to UAH 293.2 million.
According to financial report posted on its official website, lifecell’s revenue grew by 16.1%, to UAH 1.48 billion.
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) rose by 41.7%, to UAH 798.8 million. EBITDA margin grew by 9.7 percentage points, to 53.9%.
The increase is linked to growth in profit from consumption of mobile Internet that resulted of growing number of users of 4.5G network, the company said.
In the second quarter of 2018, the active subscriber base of the lifecell operator decreased by 12.8% on an annual basis, to 6.8 million subscribers.
Active three month ARPU (average revenue per user per month) increased by 27.3% by this period and amounted to UAH 53.1.
Capital investment in April-June totalled UAH 350 million that is 78.8% less year-over-year.
The penetration of smartphones in the operator’s network at the end of the second quarter was 73%.
Lifecell is the third largest mobile operator in Ukraine.
DFU Agro LLC (Hrozyne, Zhytomyr region, belongs to Danish Berry Farm) has claimed a possible loss of $100,000-300,000 if the company loses its harvest over the land conflict with Gorodok-Agro LLC (Malyn, Zhytomyr region), DFU Agro Director Vadym Shestakov said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday. According to him, the company since 2014 has been processing 1,200 hectares of land in Zhytomyr region on the basis of an agreement with the village councils on the management of the heritage. In November 2018, Gorodok-Agro rented several parcels of land, including 250 hectares, which remained in the use of DFU Agro (until 2018, this was impossible due to legislation). DFU Agro sowed this land with winter rape and rye before it was rented to Gorodok-Agro in August-September-2018. Now Gorodok-Agro claims to harvests from this area.
“We offered the company a similar area (250 hectares) of cultivated land, but they, using an ultimatum, suggested that we sell the rest of our land in these territories. In May 2019, we appealed to the anti-raider committee. In June, most of the committee members expressed the opinion that Gorodok-Agro has no right to harvest, but has the right to compensation,” the director of DFU Agro said.
He said that DFU Agro agrees with the compensation, but it has not yet been possible to agree on the terms of compensation.
“Our losses, if the opponent takes our harvest, will amount to $100,000-300,000. We are ready to harvest the crop and transfer it to a third party for safekeeping,” Shestakov said.
DFU Agro LLC is controlled by the Danish company Berry Farm, which is the owner of Dan-Farm Ukraine LLC (Khalcha, Kyiv region), one of the largest pig breeding enterprises in Ukraine. The charter capital of DFU Agro is UAH 63.7 million.
The French group AgroGeneration with assets in Ukraine in 2018 received EUR8.52 million of net loss, which is 35.3% less than in 2017.
According to the report on the company’s website, its revenue decreased by 24.3%, to EUR41 million, gross profit by 29.7%, to EUR11.27 million. Operating profit for the year increased by 1.8 times, to EUR1.48 million.
EBITDA in 2018 rose by 11.8%, to EUR10.17 million. Net debt rose by 36.8% by the end of the year, to EUR62.16 million.
The share of export sales last year fell to 52% from 57% in 2017.
In 2018, AgroGeneration produced about 328,100 tonnes of grains and oilseeds from 105,200 hectares, which is 8.7% less than in 2017.
“The decline is due to the difficult weather conditions that affected early crops (especially wheat and barley). Despite this, the yield of AgroGeneration remains higher than the average figure in the Ukrainian agricultural sector,” the report says.
PrJSC Kyivkhlib, the largest capital producer of bread and bakery products, received a net loss of UAH 2.76 million in 2018 against a net profit of UAH 15.27 million a year earlier.
According to the company’s announcement of a general meeting of shareholders scheduled for April 22, its assets decreased by 11% last year, to UAH 688.22 million.
The total debtor indebtedness over the year declined by 25.5%, to UAH 303.43 million.
By the end of the year, the retained earnings of Kyivkhlib amounted to UAH 87.31 million.
PrJSC Kyivkhlib was established in 1996 by transforming state-owned enterprise Kyivkhlibprom. It consists of nine production sites in the capital and Kyiv region.
