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BREMWORTH 2021 ANNUAL MEETING SPEECHES

CHAIR’S PRESENTATION: GEORGE ADAMS


Board

Joining me online today are your Directors.

Dianne Williams, John Rae, Paul Izzard and Grant Biel.

Your directors bring a diversity of skills, experience and thinking to the table, and ensure core

competencies are met across critical areas for our company. As you may be aware, we

appointed a new director recently, however, she chose to step down after PwC, Bremworth’s

auditor, raised a concern about its independence in appearance, as she has an existing, personal

relationship with a non-audit partner of PwC. We look forward to appointing a new director in

the new year.

Also joining us today is our new CEO, Greg Smith, who joined the company in July this year, and

Victor Tan, Bremworth’s chief financial officer.

A number of our advisers including our auditors are also online. I’d like to thank all the

professional firms who have provided valuable advice to Bremworth over the last year.

Today I am standing for re-election as a Director, and we are also farewelling Grant Biel who will

be stepping down from the Board at the end of today’s meeting.

Alongside co-founder, Tony Timpson, Grant created Cavalier Carpets and has helped guide its

progression from a tin shed operation to the purpose-led Bremworth brand and business it is

today.


Tribute to Grant Biel (video)

In 1964, a young man by the name of Grant Biel was hired by a local carpet company,

Bremworth, to make sense of newly imported broadloom carpet tufting and finishing plant from

the US. Grant, who was finishing his final year at the School of Engineering, was a mechanical

whizz and soon things were humming.

After a few years, Grant left Bremworth to pursue his aeronautical passions overseas, but

returned not long after, convincing the company to sponsor him as a New Zealand entrant in the

1969 London to Sydney Commemorative Air Race.

Grant and Tony Timpson met when they were both working for Bremworth, and in 1972, they

decided to open their own carpet business. And so Cavalier Carpets was conceived. Grant was

the mechanical and engineering brains while Tony was marketing, sales and accounting.

Import licenses for equipment were extremely difficult to obtain in those days, so incredibly all

Cavalier’s carpet making machinery was designed and built in-house. The first Cavalier workshop


was established in the basement of Leon O’Shea’s home in Howick and it was there that the

prototype carpet tufter was built.

The story goes that Grant was so excited at assembling the first tufting machine that he

unravelled yarn from the sleeve of his red jersey to thread the machine and tuft a very small

piece of carpet, and in doing so, created a piece of our history!

With the knowledge that the equipment worked, a new factory (or ‘tin shed’ as they called it)

was built in the middle of a big green paddock at Orb Avenue, Wiri in South Auckland...very close

to where our offices are today.

The first ‘Cavalier’ carpet came through the purpose-built finishing line a few months later in

May 1973, a 52oz shaggy cut pile that came in 9 colours ... eight more colours than Henry Ford

offered when he started!

Cavalier went from strength to strength, as it learned, refined and focused on crafting and

delivering high quality New Zealand wool carpets. The next fifty years would see Grant and Tony

setting up new plants, establishing offices overseas, listing on the stock exchange and acquiring

and investing in related businesses. One of their biggest moments was in 1988, when the pair

acquired the original Bremworth business and brought it into the Cavalier fold.

Grant and Tony were a dream team, leading the way in the carpet sector, continually innovating

and creating an iconic New Zealand business where the core values were founded on culture,

ethics and people being just as important as profit and sales.

Now, five decades after that friendship formed, we have relaunched the Bremworth name and

brand and are building our future around the deep expertise and heritage created by Grant and

Tony.

Today, I am honoured to acknowledge Grant’s contribution to the creation of our business and

welcome him as Bremworth’s first ever Director Emeritus, a position he will hold for life. This

honorary appointment is in recognition of the pivotal role Grant has played in our history. Thank

you, Grant.


Our vision

Our vision is to be a global leader in designing and creating desirable, sustainable, safe and high

performing natural interiors ... and we are making positive progress towards achieving our goal.


Our journey

FY21 marked the beginning of a new era for Bremworth as we took the first bold steps towards

executing our ‘all wool and natural fibres’ strategy. This was developed in response to changing

consumer trends and increasing demand for natural products, as well as our belief that we could

build a business that was more sustainable and better for people and the planet. Delivering

improving financial performance and business growth will be the upshot of responding to

consumer needs, doing the right thing and making commercially smart decisions about our

business.


We successfully concluded the sale and leaseback of our Auckland property, enabling us to

invest in our strategy and the new way forward. We also right sized the business in response to

our changing needs - downsizing Auckland manufacturing and increasing capacity at Napier and

Whanganui.

We changed our company name and brand from Cavalier to Bremworth and launched our new

“Let’s Go Good Together” marketing campaign which was designed to differentiate and

reposition the company as a design-led premium home interiors company focussed on helping

consumers to bring more natural materials into their homes and daily lives.


Our sustainability goal

Hand-in-hand with our commercial strategy, we have set forth on our sustainability journey. We

believe that sustainability is not a choice, it’s essential to future proof any business.

As we continue on our sustainability journey, our goal is to continue to reduce our

environmental impact through research, science and innovation, something Greg will touch

more on shortly.

One of the major events in our transformation journey in the last year, has been the exit from

the synthetic carpet market to fully pursue higher margin, high quality wool carpet sales. This

was completed in May 2021 with our final production run and, for us, was a major milestone.

VIDEO: Exit from synthetics


FY21 revenue

Our financial results for the year ended 30 June 2021 were in line with our expectations as we

reset our business and transitioned to our new strategy.

Revenue was $111.6m, down 5% versus FY20 due to the conscious decision to exit synthetics.

Pleasingly, wool carpet sales were up with particularly strong growth in the second half of the

year. The improved sales were underpinned by strong consumer demand in both New Zealand and

Australia, despite supply chain issues and Covid-related disruption to the export shipping

availability.


FY21 Financial Snapshot

We had strong cashflow and reported a return to profit. EBITDA of $4.7m and normalised EBITDA

up 47% to $3.4m. Net profit after tax improved to $1.7m, up from a loss of $21.5m in the prior

year.

All debt was repaid during the year, with cash of $22.5m at year end providing a strong platform

and the financial resources to execute the new strategy. Prudent capital management remains a

priority as we continue to invest in resetting the business and expanding capacity to support

growth.


We are fully committed to the resumption of payment of annual dividends once the company is

in a financial position to do so. For now, we believe it is in the best interests of shareholders to

reinvest and build a profitable business that will deliver returns to shareholders long into the

future. The board will keep this matter under constant review and fully understands and agrees

with shareholders’ desire to see Bremworth returned to a dividend-paying investment.


The opportunity for Bremworth

A year of transformation has redefined Bremworth as a premium design-led, natural fibre

company, with a clear strategic pathway and a strong balance sheet to support the execution of

our five-year plan.


Market Share

Our decision to stop selling synthetic carpets was brave and disruptive. However, we believe it

was the right thing for people, the planet and our business and we are confident that these sales

will soon be replaced, and indeed surpassed, by higher margin, higher quality wool carpet sales.

Already we are seeing a lift in our wool carpet sales, and we expect this momentum to continue

as consumer demand grows for natural and sustainable products.

Wool carpets make up only a small portion of carpet sales overall and there is an enormous

opportunity for wool to rebuild share in the market as consumers look for more natural

alternatives in their lives.


Clear growth strategy

We have a clear growth strategy built on four pillars:

• to grow the wool flooring market

• to grow our share of this market

• to expand our presence; and

• to continue with the design-led innovation for which Bremworth is famous.


A strong foundation for the future

We are strongly positioned for the future with a robust balance sheet, funding in place to continue

to execute our five-year plan, a right sized organisational footprint, and a clear strategic pathway,

as well as new leadership following the appointment of Greg Smith as CEO in June 2021.

Previously CEO of Icebreaker and a senior executive with Michael Hill Jeweller, Greg has extensive

international business experience, running iconic New Zealand companies and helping them scale

on the world stage. His proven ability to build a highly successful business and valuable brand

based on a natural ethos, makes him the ideal person to lead our company forward.


Our priorities for FY21 to FY23 are to push forward with our new strategy and navigate the

economic recovery post-Covid. I will now hand over to Greg to talk more on both this and our

progress in the current year so far.


CEO’S PRESENTATION: GREG SMITH

Leading Change

To our long-term shareholders, as you know Bremworth has been through a lot and as a

consequence, so have you all. Thanks for sticking with us on this journey. To those new to the

company, welcome! We are delighted you have joined us as we look towards a brighter future.

I’m pleased to be presenting to you today as the new CEO of Bremworth. I’m incredibly excited

about the opportunities for our business and the transformational path we are on.

As a short introduction as to why I’m here...

As a father of five, I’m committed to working with brands that want to make a true difference. A

lot of companies have words on a wall that promise something, particularly about their green

credentials. So, when I found out that the Bremworth purpose was to find a more sustainable way,

I said to myself, sounds good but what are they doing? Well for starters they ditched synthetics, or

plastic carpet, which was over 50% of total carpet sales volume and over one-third of total carpet

sales revenue in FY20. I thought wow! It’s that type of bold action that inspires me. I’m in!

Over the next 15 minutes, I will take you through our mission and the four priorities we have

identified for this year, to give you an insight into where we are putting our energy, why and the

key indicators that show we are on the right path.


We’re on a mission

What’s impressed me since my first day at Bremworth, is the passion and belief shown by our

team for what we are working towards.

Our mission is to deliver a range of home experiences built with people, the plant and growth in

mind.


What defines us

We believe that by embracing nature, we can make a genuine difference to the wellbeing of

people and the planet and deliver the design and performance attributes consumers truly care

about.

We believe that wool is the optimal fibre for carpets and rugs.

We believe that wool is fundamentally a better option than synthetic carpets, which are made

from plastic fibres. And we will defend our position on this, no matter what our competitors try

to say or do. If we didn’t, then who are we... just another brand greenwashing.


Which brings me to Godfrey Hirst taking us to court next year. We will keep you updated on how

this goes but here’s what I will say on this. Consumers deserve to know what’s in their carpet. If

it’s synthetic, that’s plastic. Full stop. Fundamentally, we believe we are on the right side of the

future as society moves towards more sustainable natural products that don’t pollute the earth.

While some businesses remain tied to petrochemical mining to make cheap plastic fibres, we

believe the future is brightest for brands who are moving into the natural space. We will be a

leader, creating long lasting, quality, natural products that we know consumers are wanting.


Priorities for FY22

As we continue our transformation journey, we have set ourselves four priorities for this year

and we are making good progress on these.


Create demand for Bremworth branded product

Firstly, we are creating demand for Bremworth branded product.


Raise awareness

There is a sustained and massive global shift, led by consumers who want to use natural and

sustainable products in all parts of their lives to benefit their health and wellbeing. We see this

in food, skincare, clothing, energy, cars ... the list goes on. We acknowledge this and are meeting

this trend in two ways.

Firstly, we are raising consumer knowledge and awareness to the differences between synthetic

and wool - plastic and natural.

Secondly, we are capitalising on Bremworth’s quality and desirability. We are as good as anyone

in the world at making carpet. That reputation is built from our heritage and decades of

expertise honing our craft using only NZ wool and made right here in NZ; and acknowledged by

winning the Readers’ Digest Most Trusted Carpet Brand award eight years in a row.


Consumer knowledge

Here is what we have learned - 30% of consumers don’t know what synthetic carpets are made

of. Not all carpets are made equal. In fact, 80 odd percent of carpets are manufactured using

plastic fibres. So, we must ensure consumers understand this and understand that wool is a high

performing, natural, biodegradable and renewable alternative.

If we raise awareness of the benefits and advantages of wool and natural fibres over synthetics,

we attract more consumers to the Bremworth brand - thus helping to create a more beautiful,

safer and healthier home environment, all while being better for the planet.

Our marketing campaigns are a major driver of demand and our current focus is on raising

awareness of the outstanding qualities of wool carpet. We are primarily marketing online, which


is more targeted and cost effective; but have also run a successful outdoor campaign in the last

few months.

We are also focused on supporting our distribution partners by supplying new and exciting point

of sale collateral that ensures the physical consumer experience matches the online brand

promise.

How’s this going?

The next two slides highlight some of the positive progress we are making.


Bremworth brand associations

It’s great to see High Quality, Luxurious and Premium - all words that we want to be associated

with and they are our some of our highest scores, all above 80%.

It’s also great to see Natural and NZ Made growing strongly in consumer awareness.

Lastly, we see Synthetics dying.


Key brand metrics

Onto key brand metrics:

Here are two other data points to give you confidence in our progress.

Bremworth is number one in unprompted brand awareness compared to key competitor carpet

manufacturers.

Preference for Bremworth branded carpets has also grown strongly, once again the highest

when compared to key competitors.

We are doing some really cool things with the brand and I’d like to share a video with you on a

partnership we had with Te Papa this year, to create a sensory art experience. Our reputation for

design innovation, shared values, inspired design and real craftsmanship led to something truly

magical.

VIDEO: Te Papa Partnership

Surprising partnerships like this, expose the brand to new consumers in exciting and different

ways.


Operational efficiency and commercial excellence

Our second priority for this year is operational efficiency and commercial excellence.

To improve profitability, you must improve margin and reduce costs.

We are committed to growing our gross margins over the next three years. This will be achieved

by investing in product design, brand marketing and manufacturing. We are already seeing


momentum in margin growth despite the last quarter’s Covid interruptions. This highlights the

importance of continued investment in the brand.

At the same time to become a truly great company, we need nothing short of excellence in

manufacturing. We are laser focused on reducing manufacturing costs and will build on our

already significant investments in plant, machinery and technology to lift productivity. While we

have high quality operations today, continuous improvement is the key to repeatable, sustained

results and high standards.

We currently have capacity to significantly grow our yarn manufacturing and carpet production,

constrained only by labour challenges, particularly in the Hawkes Bay. These are being addressed

and this is one of my personal priorities, with the yarn and manufacturing plant managers

reporting to me.

From a commercial excellence perspective and thinking about how we present our brand in

store, we will strive for consistency across the various consumer touch points. Whether it is

online or in person, the experience has to be exceptional and reflective of our brand promise.

We will be selective of how we distribute our products and will continue to review our network

to ensure we support those retailers who truly support us, creating a win-win for Bremworth,

the retailer and the consumer.

People have always been at the core of our business and Bremworth has a history of supporting

equal pay and a culture of ownership. We are looking at new, more flexible ways of working that

are increasingly appropriate today and are committed to growing our people through

development and training. We have recently launched our first leadership programme, involving

just under 20% of our workforce, and continue to encourage and support our team to gain

certification under the NZQA manufacturing framework.


Supercharge our digital strategy

We have said that we are supercharging our digital strategy – but what does that mean?

We are shifting to a consumer-centric business model which will be led by our digital, direct to

consumer rug business.

Direct online businesses learn fast from behaviours on their website and interactions with their

consumers, on how to tailor the business to best satisfy their wants, needs and desires.

We will use insights from our digital marketing and our rug business to distil learnings about who

our consumers are, what they want and how they get it.

Understanding our consumers better through this direct relationship will lead to an enhanced

consumer experience and, ultimately, more satisfied Bremworth buyers.

The trend for hard flooring looks set to stay and we believe rugs are an integral part of this

flooring style, adding softness, warmth, texture and design flair to people’s homes. We plan to

amplify the rug business significantly and expect online sales to double in this financial year.

To support all this, we will invest in our team to ensure we have expert people in place who

understand the opportunities and can create a successful business platform for us. Over the


medium to long term, we will be able to capitalise on this new revenue stream, with the

potential to expand to other products and international markets.


Innovation, sustainability and partnerships

Last but not least, is our focus on innovation, sustainability and partnerships.

You’ve heard our business is underpinned by our belief and commitment in doing good for

people and our planet.

To support our sustainability journey, we have launched a $4.9 million sustainability-based

research programme focused on:

• Reducing the company’s carbon footprint;

• Using more natural solutions; and

• Finding new, innovative ways to manufacture our products so that they are better for

people and the planet.


Our product development teams are always exploring new and cool ways to bring beautiful

products to people’s homes and sustainability is intrinsically linked into this - we are looking at

things like natural dyes and how we manufacture in lower carbon environment.

We recently obtained an ECCA grant to change the gas driers in our Whanganui plant to electric,

as part of a carbon reduction initiative, and are looking at doing the same at our Napier plant.

To give our consumers certainty about the integrity, traceability, biosecurity, sustainability, and

animal welfare of our wool products, Bremworth recently signed up to the New Zealand Farm

Assurance Programme. Before long, 100% of our wool will be sourced from NZFAP accredited

sources.

New Zealand farmers already produce some of the lowest carbon wool on the planet and some

of our wool growers are already approaching a carbon zero position. We’re not afraid to

challenge ourselves and have set ourselves a goal to bring to market a carbon zero wool rug

within the next two years.

We are also looking at how we can recycle and re-use our products, with potential opportunities

including carpet backing, insulation and acoustic wall panels.

Our sustainability journey is evolving and is a true long-term commitment.


FY22 performance to date

Demand continues to grow and our margins are improving. The strategy is working.

While we hope to soon be back to normal, the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, along with the

widespread supply chain and shipping issues affecting all businesses, have impacted on our

business.


Our manufacturing plants were all closed during the level 4 lockdown, with Napier and

Whanganui, where we manufacture the yarn for our carpet, re-opening after two weeks in

lockdown. Our Auckland operations, where we make our carpet, re-opened on September 22 after

five weeks being closed. This obviously had an impact on our production.

The health of our people is our priority and we have been operating bubble shifts, where each

team is separated, particularly during shift change overs. This results in up to 1.5 hours lost time

each day.

Pleasingly, production has now been recovered to levels we were expecting pre the level 4

lockdown, allowing us to meet the strong and consistent demand we have witnessed throughout

the lockdown.

Supply chain issues, particularly around shipping stock, has resulted in some constraints on supply

in Australia as demand grows. The opportunity in Australia is large and capitalising on this is a big

focus for the next year, when we expect shipping issues to start to ease.


Outlook

Zooming out and taking a wider perspective on our outlook and the environment we are operating

in, we remain cautiously optimistic during these uncertain times.

As stated earlier, consumers are making more conscious buying decisions and we are seeing more

people choosing wool over synthetic carpets as they become aware of the benefits that wool

carpets offer.

Construction demand - – and the related demand for flooring – continues to grow across both

residential renovations and new builds.

We expect the strong demand across Australia and New Zealand to continue and, despite

consumers becoming more accustomed to longer wait times, we are focused on improving

delivery times significantly.


Strongly positioned to execute our strategy

In summary, we have positioned ourselves well and have an enormous opportunity to take market

share from synthetic producers and grow our Bremworth branded business.

We have a clear strategy in place, funding to execute this, existing capacity for manufacturing

growth and expert people driving our business, we are well positioned for growth.

Our primary focus remains our core business – growing sales of our high-quality wool carpets and

rugs – and margin improvement.

I am proud of the team and our progress and excited about the future for Bremworth.

ENDS

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ANNUAL
GENERAL

MEETING

25 NOVEMBER 2021

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George Adams
Chairman

Dianne Williams

Director

Grant Biel

Director (Retiring)

John Rae

Director

Paul Izzard

Director

Review
•Strategic review

•Unveiling of new purpose-led strategy

•Commenced sustainability journey

FY19 –FY20

Transformation

●Strong capital base to fund

transformation

●Relaunch of Bremworth brand

and marketing

●Right-sized organisation

●Set forth on our sustainability journey

●Exited synthetics

●Redefined as a premium design

and natural fibre company

FY20 –FY21

Future-Focused

•Appointment of new CEO

•Clear, purpose lead strategy

•Capitalising on consumer and macro

trends

•Significant opportunity to grow

market share

FY21 –ONWARDS

OUR SUSTAINABILITY GOAL

FY21 Revenue
Total revenue of $111.6m, down 5% vs FY20:

•Due to the conscious decision to exit synthetic

carpet market

•Offset by 17% increase in wool carpet sales with

strong growth in the second half of the year

•Improved sales mix underpinned by strong

consumer demand for high quality wool

carpets

FY21 Financial Snapshot
$ millions

Revenue

EBITDA

Non-trading adjustments*

Normalised EBITDA

Net Profit/(Loss) After Tax

Normalised NPAT/(NLAT)

Net Debt/Cash

FY21

111.6

4.7

(1.3)

3.4

1.7

0.4

22.5

FY20

118.0

(8.9)

11.2

2.3

(21.5)

(3.5)

(14.5

)

*FY21 non-trading adjustments of $1.3m comprise net gain on sale and

leaseback of property of $2.6m and restructuring costs of $(1.3)m. FY20 non-

trading adjustments were $(11.2)m of transformation costs.

See appendix slide for definitions of non-GAAP measures.

•Improved earnings and return to profit

•All debt repaid and $22.5m in cash at year

end

•Strong cash flow

•Robust balance sheet to execute

transformation strategy

•Prudent capital management - no dividend

declared

NZ market share estimate by fibre
AT BREMWORTH,

WE HAVE AN ENORMOUS

OPPORTUNITY TO REBUILD

WOOL’S SHARE OF THE

FLOORING MARKET AND

GROW OUR BUSINESS

Synthetic – opportunity

for wool to take share

Wool

OUR GROWTH STRATEGY

A strong foundation
for the future

•Trusted iconic brand know for

premium products

•New brand strategy aligned to

changing consumer landscape and

trends

•Industry leading people, quality and

design

•Significant cash resources in place

for execution of strategy

•New leadership under

Greg Smith as CEO

•Moving ahead with our

sustainability journey

LEADING CHANGE

WE’RE ON A MISSION

WHAT DEFINES US

1 .CREATE DEMAND
FOR BREMWORTH

BRANDED PRODUCT

PRIORITIES FOR FY22

RAISING AWARENESS

•Approx. 80% of carpets sold in NZ are synthetic
•Our research shows 30%* of consumers do not know

what their synthetic carpet is made up of

•We are raising consumer awareness that synthetic

carpet fibres are imported plastic

•Bremworth is offering consumers NZ wool, which is a

locally grown, high performing, natural,

biodegradable and renewable alternative to plastic

Consumer knowledge & awareness

*SOURCE: TRA Bremworth brand NZ consumer research November 2021

DON’T KNOW WHAT

SYNTHETIC CARPET

IS MADE UP OF*

30%

Bremworth brand associations
+13%

•Positively, we are seeing desired

attributes associated with the Bremworth

brand increasing

•Pleasingly, our brand association

with synthetic has decreased from

27% to 16%*

*SOURCE: TRA Bremworth brand NZ consumer research November 2021

SOURCE: TRA Bremworth brand NZ consumer research November 2021
*NOTE: Unprompted awareness includes mentions of Bremworth & Cavalier Bremworth

Key brand metrics

•Bremworth has the highest

unprompted brand awareness* in NZ

when compared to all competitor

carpet manufacturers

•Preference for Bremworth carpet in NZ

has increased from 27% in 2020 to 32% in

2021. Bremworth is the preferred brand

when compared to key competitors

2 .OPERATIONAL
EFFICIENCY &

COMMERCIAL

EXCELLENCE

PRIORITIES FOR FY22

2.Operational efficiency
and commercial excellence

•Improve margin and reduce cost

•Excellence in manufacturing

•Production capacity to support our

ambitious 3 year growth targets

•Consistency of the consumer

experience across online and

offline touchpoints

•Distribution network review and update

•People first approach to health and

safety and team development

•Investigating new flexible working

arrangements to better meet the

changing world

3 .SUPER CHARGE
OUR DIGITAL

STRATEGY

PRIORITIES FOR FY22

3. Super charge our
digital strategy

•Shifting to a consumer-centric

business model

•Amplify direct to consumer rug

business

•Leveraging digital marketing insights

•Investment in people

•Potential for international expansion

4 .PRIORITISE
INNOVATION,

SUSTAINABILITY

& PARTNERSHIPS

PRIORITIES FOR FY22

4. Prioritise innovation,
sustainability and

partnerships

•Product development focus on

sustainability

•Reduce the company’s carbon

footprint

•Using more natural solutions

•Finding new, innovative ways to

manufacture products

•Sourcing wool from NZ farms

with NZFAP accreditation

•Product stewardship

FY22 YTD
performance

•Demand continues to grow for our high

quality wool carpets and rugs

•Margins are also improving, so strategy

is working

•Ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, supply

chain and shipping issues have

impacted us

•But production now recovered to pre-

Level 4 lockdown

•Opportunity in Australia is large with a

big focus to capitalise on that for the

next year

OUTLOOK

Outlook
•Style conscious and educated consumers

resulting in more people choosing wool

over synthetic

•Expect strong demand across Australasia

to continue

•Construction demand and related

demand for flooring are continuing

to grow

•Focus on improving delivery times

significantly

STRONGLY
POSITIONED

TO EXECUTE OUR STRATEGY

Strongly positioned to
execute our strategy

•Significant identified market opportunities

•Clear growth strategy

•Significant funding to execute the strategy

•Passionate and expert people

•Capacity for manufacturing growth

•Investment into R&D, focused

on sustainability

RESOLUTIONS

Resolutions
Resolution 1 –Re-election

of George Adams:

That George Adams, who retires by

rotation and is eligible for re-election,

be re-elected as a director of the

Company.

Resolution 2 –Auditor’s remuneration:

That the directors be authorised

to fix the fees and expenses of

the auditor.

Proxies and postal votes
The Company has received approximately 16 million proxy and postal votes representing approx. 23% of total shares,

with more than 93% of those in favour of each of the two resolutions.

ForAgainstProxy

discretion

Re-election of George Adams14,804,418 (93.02%)33,790 (0.21%)1,078,136 (6.77%)

Auditor’s remuneration14,816,938 (93.14%)18,400 (0.12%)1,073,667 (6.74%)

OTHER BUSINESS

Reconciliation of GAAP to Normalised
Normalised is a non-GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) measure that provides what the

Directors believe to be a more meaningful view of the underlying financial performance of the Group.

Unaudited ($000’s)

GAAP NPAT/(NLAT)

Reversal of abnormal items (after tax):

Net gain on sale of property

Impairment of plant and equipment

Impairment of right-of-use assets

Transformation/Restructuring costs

Change in legislation regarding tax depreciation on buildings

Derecognitionof deferred tax asset

Normalised NPAT/(NLAT)

FY21

1,729

(2,624)

0

0

1,271

0

0

376

FY20

(21,451)

0

5,095

2,094

854

(2,940)

12,891

(3,456)

Reconciliation of GAAP to Normalised
Unaudited ($000’s)

EBITDA

Reversal of abnormal items (before tax):

Net gain on sale of property

Impairment of plant and equipment

Impairment of right-of-use assets

Transformation/Restructuring costs

Normalised EBITDA

FY21

4,738

(2,624)

0

0

1,271

3,385

FY20

(8,872)

0

7,077

2,909

1,186

2,300

Normalised is a non-GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) measure that provides what the

Directors believe to be a more meaningful view of the underlying financial performance of the Group.

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