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Seeka Annual Shareholders Meeting Presentation

AGM12 April 2019SEKConsumer Staples

Annual Shareholder Meeting
12 April 2019

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Agenda

1. Directors and proxies2. Chairman’s introduction3. Chief executive's report4. Resolutions5. General business

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Directors

Amiel Diaz

Marty BrickJohn BurkeRatahi CrossCecilia Tarrant

Ashley Waugh

Chair Audit and Risk Committee

Fred Hutchings

Chairman

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ProxiesChair

5,415,517

New Zealand Shareholders Association

351,617

Jay Jay Van Eden

33,765

Total

5,800,899

Chairman’s Introduction
Fred Hutchings

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2018 a busy year for SeekaFinancial highlightsStrategic investmentsCapital rebalancing and management

Introduction

Strategy and Governance

are important pillars

of the Board’s role at Seeka

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31.4m kiwifruit trays handled and packed in New Zea

land

Kerikeri packhouse and orchardsSecurity of fruit supplyPackhouse refurbishment and extensionsCapital raiseDNFCRetail service businessChallenging conditions in AustraliaSecuring labour

Avocado pre<clearance changes

Busy year in 2018

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$204m revenue – up 9%$26.2m EBITDA – up 13%$7.4m net profit after tax – up 27%$270m total assets – up 22%$79.1m net bank debt – down 5%

Financial highlightsYear ended 31 December 2018

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Purchase of T&G Northland post harvest and kiwifruit rela

ted orchards

▪

Subsequent sell down, term supply commitment

▪

Gain on sale over holding costs

2<year investment in core kiwifruit business

▪

Oakside

$ 18.6m

▪

Kerikeri

$ 17.6m

▪

Aongatete

$ 25.0m

Balanced packing and coolstore operations

▪

Peninsula, Main Road, KKP have all had major upgrad

es in packing and coolstorage

Plastic bins

▪

Higher input costs, better fruit performance, benef

its over time

Strategic investments

Adding value for shareholders

Seeka expects to have balanced capacity in New Zeal

and for the next 3 seasons

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Investment in long term leases in New Zealand

▪

42 hectares kiwifruit

▪

7 hectares Hass avocados

▪

6 hectares Gem avocados

VLS LabInvestment in developing new orchards in Australia

▪

53 hectares kiwifruit

▪

29 hectares pears

Strategic investmentsFor longer term growth

The Board continues to invest in Seeka’s core business

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$79.1m

$53.2m

$25.9m

Seeka’s disciplined approach to debtSeeka’s target range is net debt between 1.5 to 2.5 x

EBITDA

December

2018

Adjusted

December 2018

Orchard sales

at fair value

2

x

Debt to

EBITDA

Seeka held for sale $25.9m in Northland orchards at

fair value ( at cost )

3

x

Debt to

EBITDA

Net debt

Chief executive’s report
Michael Franks

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Seeka safetyKeeping our people safe

2018 safety measure

Target

Actuals

Total recordable injury frequency rateNumber of injuries per 200,000 hours worked

Less than 4.6

4.5

Notifiable incidents

1

0

Notifiable injury

0

0

Severity rate

Average number of days an injured person is away fr

om work

Less than 3.6

4.5

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Four operating segmentsExpanding along the value chain and into Australia

Orcharding, NZGrowing kiwifruit, avocado and kiwiberry< Crop procurement< Largest kiwifruit grower

Post harvest, NZPicking, packing and coolstoring fruit< Core operation< 20% of NZ kiwifruit crop

Retail services, NZMarketing produce in NZ and Australia< Adding value < Manufacturing new products

Seeka AustraliaOwn orchards plus post harvest facilities< Geographical expansion< Developing capacity

$237m

Operating

assets

$204m

Operating

revenue

Post harvest

61%

Orcharding

26%

Post harvest

61%

Orcharding

15%

Retail

6%

Seeka

Australia

7%

Seeka

Australia

21%

Retail 3%

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NZDm

2017

2018

Turnover / revenue

$ 48.6

$ 52.8

EBITDA

$ 6.4

$ 3.4

Millions of trays¹Hayward (green)

5.9

7.6

SunGold

2.6

3.1

Total

8.5

10.7

$3.4m EBITDA

▪

Down 46% on FY17

▪

End of 11 hectares of long term leases

▪

Recovery in Hayward yields

▪

SunGold progressing to full production

▪

Investing in 55 hectares of new long term leases

10.7m trays kiwifruit grown(37.9m kilograms)¹0.039m trays avocado(0.21m kilograms)

Orchard operations36% of kiwifruit post harvest volume is grown by Seeka

1. Kiwifruit volumes exclude crop from T&G acquisition or

chards, acquired crop off.

5.9

7.6

2.6

3.1

8.5

10.7

2017

2018

NZ kiwifruit grownMillions of class 1 trays

HaywardSunGold

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$32.1m EBITDA

▪

Up 46% on FY17

31.4m kiwifruit trays processed

▪

Up 23%

T&G Kerikeri post harvest facility

▪

Acquired and integrated April 2018

Post harvest operationsGenerating 61% of Group revenue

NZDm

2017

2018

Turnover / revenue

$ 96.7

$ 123.8

EBITDA

$ 22.0

$ 32.1

Millions of traysHayward (green)

class1

15.6

19.2

SunGold

class 1

8.7

10.8

Class 2 and other

1.4

1.4

Total

25.7

31.4

15.6

19.2

8.7

10.8

25.7

31.4

2017

2018

NZ kiwifruit processedMillions of trays

HaywardSunGoldClass 2

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$1.6m EBITDA

▪

Down 44% on FY17

Imported banana business performed below FY17

Avocado

▪

A challenging year

▪

New phytosanitary protocols agreed with Australia

▪

China market opened FY18

Delicious Nutritious Food Company increased earnings to $0.47m

▪

Up 58% on FY17

Retail services operationsCapturing value from fruit retailing and processing

NZDm

2017

2018

Turnover

$ 54.2

$ 39.9

Revenue

$ 24.3

$ 11.5

EBITDA

$ 2.9

$ 1.6

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2,982

1,201

854

727

2,570

1,250

1,138

690

Kiwifruit

Nashi

Packham

Other

2017

2018

$(0.1)m EBITDA

▪

Down 103% on FY17

▪

Challenging growing season

▪

Australian management restructured

Psa<V detected October 2018

▪

4.5 hectares of developing orchards

▪

Containment strategy

▪

Negative $500k impact

▪

Revised variety development plan

▪

Delays full production by 12+ months

Investing in new orchards

▪

82 hectares in development

▪

40% increase in productive land

Australian operations

Integrated orchard to market

NZDm

2017

2018

Revenue

$ 16.5

$ 14.9

EBITDA

$ 2.3

$(0.1)

Australian<grown fruit

Tonnes

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1.

Rights issue November 2018

▪

$47.9m raised (after costs)

▪

11.7m new shares issued

▪

29.3m shares on issue

▪

Institutions and large individual investors now on share register

▪

Share liquidity up

▪

Foreign ownership reduced from 24.9% to 15% (approx)

2.

Grower loyalty share scheme March 2019

▪

2.1m shares issued (Seeka and Aongatete)

3.

Employee share scheme March 2019

▪

0.5m shares issued

Capital strategyProviding funds for growth, strengthening the balan

ce sheet and balancing debt

Grower scheme

Rights

issue

17.5

17.5

29.3

11.7

2.1

17.5

29.3

31.9

2017

2018

2019

Seeka sharesMillions

Employee scheme

+0.1m dividendreinvestment plan

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$7.0m sold FY18

▪

$0.6m gain

$25.9m settled or agreed FY19

▪

$4.2m gain

Remainder being marketed for sale

Northland orchard salesSales process continues

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EBITDA range 2019 $36.5m < $37.5m

▪

Previous guidance

$27.5m < $28.5m

Due to

1.

Northland orchard sales

2.

NZ IFRS 16 leasing changes

Guidance for financial year 2019

1. Assumes all orchard sales completed in 2019

EBITDA

▲

$ 5.6 m

Depreciation and interest

▲

$(7.1)m

Net impact

▼

$ 1.5 m

Gross sales

$ 25.9 m

Gain on sale

1

▲

$ 4.2 m

EBITDANZDm

37.5

26.2

36.5

2018

Actual

2019

Guidance

Early guidance: Subject to harvest volumes in New Zeala

nd and Australia, excludes Aongatete

Guidance range

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Integrated orcharding and post harvest business

▪

Adds coolstores north of the Port of

Tauranga

▪

Adds 4m to 4.5m trays to 2019 volumes

$3.5m to $4.5m to EBITDA from FY20$25m purchase

▪

Subject to adjustments

Settled Monday 18 MarchGrowers offered new Seeka share scheme

▪

Same terms as Seeka scheme

Current guidance excludes this purchase

Purchase of Aongatete Coolstores LimitedContinuing our heartland growth strategy

Main Road

Aongatete

Huka Pak

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Seeka app

▪

Realtime access to grower data

▪

Faster decision making

▪

Transparency and accountability

VLS lab

▪

System upgrade

▪

Competition in the maturity testing service

▪

Benefit to all stakeholders

Orchard syndication

▪

Preparing quality orchards for syndicate ownership

▪

Secures long<term supply to post harvest

Delivering on innovation Better services, smarter systems

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Kiwifruit volumes growing strongly

▪

Strong global demand

▪

Seeka had 20% market share of New Zealand industry FY18

▪

Benefit from higher volumes

▪

New plantings in Australia

Export value of NZ avocados growing strongly

▪

Northland provides base for growth

Invested in post harvest capacity

▪

$100m over the last 5 years

▪

Prepared for growth

Operating in a growth industryInvestments made in post harvest capacity and systems

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Green kiwifruit

Gold kiwifruit

New Zealand kiwifruit exportsMillions of class 1 trays

Zespri forecast

1

Actual

1. Zespri 5 year outlook, November 2017

Questions
Fred Hutchings

Resolutions
Ashley Waugh and Fred Hutchings

ALL VOTES TO BE BY POLL

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To receive, consider and adopt the Annual Report of See

ka and the

Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 20

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together with the Auditor’s Report thereon.

Resolution 1Ordinary resolution

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Director elections

▪

2 directors standing for re<election

▪

Board supports the candidates for re<election

Resolution 2Ordinary resolution

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2a. To re<elect Amiel Diaz as a Director.

Amiel Diaz to address the meeting

3 minutes to address the meeting

Resolution 2a

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2b. To re<elect Fred Hutchings as a Director.

Fred Hutchings to address the meeting

3 minutes to address the meeting

Resolution 2b

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That the existing constitution of the Company is revoked,

and the

constitution tabled at the meeting, and referred to i

n the explanatory

note on page 7, is adopted as the constitution of the C

ompany.

Resolution 3Special resolution – must be passed by a 75% majority

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NZX has introduced new listing rulesTo comply Seeka must amend its constitutionMain changes

▪

Directors must seek re<election at least by every t

hird ASM

▪

Voting at shareholding meetings to be by poll

▪

Proxies to be lodged not later than 48 hours before

a shareholder meeting

▪

Clause on shareholder approval for increase in cont

rol by parties no longer

applies



Seeka is governed by the Takeovers Code

Resolution 3Explanatory summary

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To record the re<appointment of PwC (PricewaterhouseCo

opers) as

auditor of the Company and to authorise the Directors

to fix the

remuneration of the auditor for the coming year.

Resolution 4Ordinary resolution

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Directors

▪

For diligent attention to the company

Management and staff

▪

For an excellent year

Growers and contractors

▪

For ongoing support

Customers and consumers

▪

For buying our produce

Shareholders

▪

For continuing interest in the company

My thanks

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General business

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