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Amended: Acquisition of Dairyworks Synlait presentation

M&A12 March 2020SMLConsumer Staples

ACQUISITION OF DAIRYWORKS
SUMMARY OF STRATEGIC RATIONALE

12 March 2020

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TRANSACTION OVERVIEW

•Conditional purchase of shares in Dairyworks announced for $112 million in October 2019

•Price reflective of an approximate 7.1x EBITDA multiple (previously 7.5x) based on last twelve months of forecast earnings

to 31 March 2020. Transaction funded by existing banking facilities

•Overseas Investment Office consent under the Overseas Investment Act 2005 has been granted.

Settlement to take place on 1 April 2020

TRANSACTION

OVERVIEW

ACQUISITION

RATIONALE

ABOUT

DAIRYWORKS

•Accelerates Synlait’s diversification strategy achieving instant scale in the Everyday Dairy category. Dairyworks has a strong

market presence in cheese, retail butter and grocery channels, reducing Synlait’s site, customer, product and market risk

•Talbot Forest and Dairyworks are a natural fit. Supply chain synergies over time through vertical integration with

Talbot Forest Cheese

•Provides an opportunity to extract more value from Synlait’s milk pool by moving closer to the consumer and owning more

of the value chain

•Dairyworks brings to Synlait an innovative, agile and nimble FMCG culture, which will help further expand our category

offerings and products

•Financially attractive and immediately earnings per share accretive

•A New Zealand market leader in the Everyday Dairy category with a growing Australian presence

•Dairyworks supplies New Zealand consumers with almost half of its cheese, a quarter of its butter, as well as milk powder and

the award-winning Deep South ice cream

•Highly experienced FMCG executive team in the business to drive long-term growth

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ACQUISITION RATIONALE

ATTRACTIVE SECTOR

GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES

COMPLEMENTARY CULTUREFINANCIALLY SUSTAINABLE

• Industry players remain limited and

unintegrated in cheese and butter

and have high barriers to entry

• Consumers preferences within

cheese category evolving to

convenience and specialty. These

are valued added products

• Export growth potential for New

Zealand dairy businesses is

significant. New Zealand’s strong

dairy reputation enables businesses

to leverage ‘brand New Zealand’ to

access large and growing global

dairy markets

• Utilise Dairyworks innovative, agile

and nimble FMCG culture to expand

category offerings and products

• Continue to maximise strong

on-shelf New Zealand brand, and

leverage emerging Australian grocery

beachhead to grow rapidly

• Ability to leverage fresh milk line at

Dunsandel to expand Dairyworks

offering over time

• Dairyworks is a nimble and innovative

company like Synlait

• Dairyworks purpose ‘Make Life Easy’

complements Synlait’s purpose ‘Doing

milk differently for a healthier world’

• Christchurch-based

• Equipment and management structure

recently invested in

• Provides a high-value channel to

market for cheese produced at

Talbot Forest

• Financially compelling transaction

reflected in attractive acquisition

multiple and earnings per share

accretion

• Earnings growth trajectory

demonstrates potential for further

shareholder value creation over the

long-term

SYNERGIES WITH SYNLAIT: WHAT DAIRYWORKS BRINGS TO OUR BUSINESS

• Diversification of customers, categories and markets

• Supply chain synergies over time through vertical integration with Talbot Forest Cheese and working capital benefits

• Ability to better optimise Synlait’s milk pool and get more value from what we process

• Cultural alignment

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OVERVIEW OF DAIRYWORKS

DAIRYWORKS IS A MARKET LEADER ...
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STRONG MARKET

POSITIONS

CHEESE

#

1

BUTTER

#

2

ICE CREAM

#

4

MILK POWDER

#

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STRONG WELL

RECOGNISED BRANDS

STRONG CUSTOMER

BASE

... WITH A STRONG PRODUCT PORTFOLIO
IN CONSUMER DAIRY

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ProductsInputsProcessingExample product typesSales and marketing/distribution

CheeseBulk cheese

supply (20kg

blocks)

Cut, process, package:

• Dairyworks brands

• Contract brands

• 1kg, 750g, 250g blocks

• Cheese slices

• Grated / powdered cheese

• Shaved cheese

• Cheese sticks

• Cheese and cracker snacks

• Soft cheeses

• Supermarkets

• Food Service (including convenience /

service stations)

• Export

ButterFinished and

bulk supply

• Currently all processing

and packaging carried

out by Fonterra

• New butter stick line put

in place this year

• 500g blocks

• 227g (half pound)

and 454g (pound)

• New 100g butter sticks

• Supermarkets

• Food Service (including convenience /

service stations)

• Export

Ice CreamBulk cream and

other ingredient

supply

Churn ice cream, package:

• Dairyworks

• Deep South brand

• Contract brands

• Dairyworks 5 litre and 16 litre

• Deep South 125ml/450ml/950ml

and 2 litre

• 5 Litre / 10 litre Food Service

• Supermarkets

• Food Service (including convenience /

service stations)

• Export

Milk PowderFinished

packaged milk

powder

• Nil (all processing

is outsourced)

• Full Cream Milk Powder

(400g & 1kg)

• Skim Milk Powder

(400g & 1kg)

• Supermarkets

• Food Service (including convenience /

service stations)

• Export

DAIRYWORKS PRODUCTS, PROCESSES AND SALES CHANNELS

The company produces over 500 products. A snapshot of the product types is set out below

... AND POTENTIAL TO EXPAND INTO NEW
MARKETS AND CHANNELS FOR FUTURE GROWTH

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GEOGRAPHY SPLIT*CHANNEL SPLIT*CATEGORY SPLIT*

90% New Zealand

8% Australia

2% Rest of world

*Splits represents total revenue for the 12 months to February 2020

75% New Zealand grocery

15% Food service

8% Australia grocery

2% Export

47% Cheese

25% Butter

9% Ice cream

19% Milk powder

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... WITH A TRACK RECORD OF DELIVERING

Alpine gained its first

contract packaging

opportunities for

retail

Dairyworks was

established in

Temuka with Alpine

cheese as its first

branded product

Alpine was launched

nationally into

Progressive stores

Introduced a new

grating plant and

block line, and the

first slicer. Won the

signature Range

contract for

Progressive

The company moved

from Temuka to

Christchurch

Automated grate

line and block lines

installed

Dairyworks acquired

the Grate Kiwi

Cheese Company

Dairyworks started

to produce

ice cream

Investment

New rotary filler and butter

processing line installed

Range Win

Range expansion in

Woolworths Australia

Secured new Private

Label contracts

for Foodstuffs and

Woolworths

First major contract

with food service

grated cheese for

foodstuffs

The Rolling Medow

brand was launched

into Foodstuffs

The company

was rebranded to

Dairyworks

Addition of two new

block lines to take

throughout capacity

from 56 blocks per

minute to 160 blocks

per minute

22 new products

were introduced

alongside a new

Dairyworks brand.

New facility built

Dairyworks acquired

Dairymaid Foods NZ

Limited

Acquired Deep

South Ice Cream.

Ice Cream

manufacturing

relocated from

invercargill to

Christchurch

Investment

New 500g slice machine.

Semi auto bulk filter

Customer Win

Launched Dairyworks brand into

Woolworths Australia

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MEET THE TEAM

• Dairyworks will be a subsidiary

of Synlait and operate as a

stand-alone business, with its

CEO Tim Carter, reporting to

Synlait CEO Leon Clement

• Dairyworks has an experienced

executive leadership team with

deep dairy and consumer

brands experience

• Christchurch manufacturing

facility is home to a team of

more than 230 employees in

processing, production and

administration roles

Simon Cross

General Manger

Operations

Tim Carter

Chief Executive Officer

Adam Maxwell

General Manager

Sales & Marketing

Kieran Hayes

Chief Financial Officer

• Tim joined Dairyworks

in 2018

• 20+ years experiance in

the New Zealand FMCG

and dairy industry

• Previously worked with

Fonterra for over 18 years

across multiple roles

• Keiran joined Dairyworks

as CFO in February 2017

• 9 years with KPMG in a

variety of New Zealand

and Asian offices, advising

a number of large scale

Australasian businesses

• Member of Institute of

New Zealand Chartered

Accountants and qualified

Barrister and Solicitor of

the High Court of New

Zealand

• Simon has worked at

Dairyworks for eight years,

holding various positions

within the business

ranging from operational

and supply chain

leadership roles to Head

of Sales & Marketing

• He has spent the last

18 months as General

Manager Operations &

Supply Chain

• Prior to Dairyworks Simon

held senior management

positions in the hotel

industry

• Joined Dairyworks in 2018

• 30 years experiance in

sales and marketing in

the UK and New Zealand

across a range of FMCG /

Technology companies

• Management and excutive

level marketing and

sales experiance with

Diageo, Fonterra, Canon,

Independent Liquor NZ,

DB Breweries and ENZA.

Highly experienced FMCG executive team in the business to drive long-term growth

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EXPECTED SYNERGIES WITH SYNLAIT

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EXPECTED

SYNERGIES

WHAT DAIRYWORKS BRINGS TO SYNLAIT:

1. Diversification of customers, categories and markets

2. Supply chain synergies over time through vertical

integration with Talbot Forest Cheese and working

capital benefits

3. Ability to better optimise Synlait’s milk pool and get

more value from what we process

4. Cultural alignment

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1. DIVERSIFICATION

Acquisition accelerates diversification strategy and further reduces site, customer, category and market concentration risk.

Revenue by categoryRevenue by channelRevenue by geography

After

(Synlait and Dairyworks)

After

(Synlait and Dairyworks)

After

(Synlait and Dairyworks)

Before

(Synlait)

Before

(Synlait)

Before

(Synlait)

Powders and cream

Consumer packaged products

Lactoferrin

Everyday Dairy

Other

Business to business

Business to consumer

China

Rest of Asia

Middle East and Africa

Rest of world

New Zealand

Australia

Category, channel and geography splits based on forecast FY20 revenue

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2. TALBOT FOREST AND DAIRYWORKS

ARE A NATURAL FIT

• Talbot Forest is primarily a

manufacturer of cheese,

with some processing capability.

It processes raw milk into

20kg blocks which are

matured before being used

in secondary processing

• Dairyworks is a secondary

processor of cheese. It procures

20kg cheese blocks from other

suppliers, and processes these

into consumer ready products

• Provides higher-value retail

channel to market/products for

cheese produced by Talbot Forest

• Dairyworks’ bulk cheese

requirements will only be

partially met by Talbot Forest, so

procurement flexibility is retained

Example of supply chain synergies over time through vertical integration with Talbot Forest

Synlait milk

delivered to Talbot

Forest

Secondary

processing and

packaging

Synlait milk

delivered to Talbot

Forest

Processed into

20kg block cheese

at Talbot Forest

Maturation and

storage onsite

20kg blocks

transported to

Dairyworks site

Secondary processing

and packaging at

Dairyworks

Transported to

and stored at

distribution centre

Delivered to

customer

Processed into 20kg

block cheese

Transported

back to Talbot Forest

Delivered to

customer

Transported to

offsite storage

Raw materials stored

at multiple 3rd party

facilities

Transported to

Dairyworks for

secondary processing

Secondary

processing and

packaging

Transported to

and stored at

distribution centre

Delivered to

customer

20kg block cheese

purchased from

international parties

Maturation and storage

at 3

rd

party facility

20kg block cheese

purchased from

domestic parties

SYNLAIT

INTEGRATED

PROCESS

TALBOT

FOREST

CHEESE

DAIRYWORKS

CURRENT STATE

FUTURE STATE

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3. STREAM OPTIMISATION OPPORTUNITIES

• Talbot Forest and Dairyworks provide flexibility to

optimise stream returns above base commodity prices

• By moving closer to the consumer and owning more

of the value chain, there is opportunity to extract more

value from Synlait’s milk pool

• Dairyworks product mix evolving to more convenience /

snacking offerings also creates additional value

$ / per tonne sell price

* Global Dairy Trade reference prices

** Dairyworks average sale price

9,000

8,000

7,000

6,000

5,000

4,000

3,000

2,000

1,000

Whole Milk Powder*Cheddar*Dairyworks

Cheese**

0

12 month average ($NZD)

Current retail sales prices

$10.90/kg$18/kg$26/kg

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4. CULTURAL ALIGNMENT

Founded approximately 10 years ago

Disruptive and innovative approach to creating new value

Track record for building long-term partnerships

Dairyworks ‘Make Life Easy’ complements

Synlait’s ‘Doing milk differently for a healthier world’

MATURITY

BUSINESS MODEL

CUSTOMERS

PURPOSE

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FINANCIAL OVERVIEW

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TRANSACTION SUMMARY AND GUIDANCE UPDATE

•S

ynlait announced the conditional purchase of Dairyworks

for $112 million in October 2019, with the transaction funded by

existing banking facilities. Settlement to take place on

1 April 2020

•Price reflective of an approximate

7 .1 x EBITDA (8.1x EBIT) multiple

based on last twelve months of forecast earnings to 31 March

2020. This is lower than the previously announced 7.5x EBITDA

multiple due to business growth over and above expectations

•Effective date of the transaction is 30 September 2019, with

a ‘locked box’ period to settlement on 1 April 2020. Under

this transaction mechanic, business earnings, forecast to be

approximately $7 million during this time, are for the benefit

of Synlait and remain in Dairyworks after settlement

•Synlait will consolidate earnings of Dairyworks upon settlement,

and can now confirm that Dairyworks is expected to make an

EBITDA contribution of approximately $4 million in the remainder

of FY20. This translates to a Net Profit After Tax contribution of

approximately $2 million, after borrowing costs and deprecation.

Synlait reiterates it therefore remains comfortable with its FY20

earnings guidance range, which is between $70 million and

$85 million net profit after tax

•Combined, Talbot Forest and Dairyworks, expected to achieve

Synlait’s requirement of a pre-tax return on invested capital of

20% after expected synergies

•Synlait looks forward to a fuller discussion around its financial

performance on Thursday 19 March when it releases its Half Year

2020 financial results

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DISCLAIMER

• This presentation is intended to constitute a summary of certain information about

Synlait Milk Limited (“Synlait”) or in connection with its purchase of the shares

in Dairyworks Limited. It should be read in conjunction with, and subject to, the

explanations and views in documents previously released to the market by Synlait.

• This presentation is not an offer or an invitation, recommendation or inducement to

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