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Mainfreight Annual Shareholders Meeting 2025

AGM30 July 2025MFTIndustrials

MAINFREIGHT LIMITED
ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

30 July 2025

The Numbers – Financial Year 2025
•Revenue Up 11% to $5.24 billion

•Profit Before Tax Down 3% to $383.6 million

•Net Profit Up 31% to $274.3 million (Non-cash tax adjustment last year)

•People 11,130

•Branches 337

•Countries 27

•Dividend Full year dividend $1.72 per share

Full Year Overview
Satisfactory revenue growth despite significant downtrading from customers as a consequence

of average economic performance

Record result from our Australian businesses – now our largest revenue and profit performer

Profit decline in New Zealand, Asia and Americas

Margin performance impacted by higher property overheads and competitive market conditions

Eight new facilities completed

3 x Transport sites in Auckland

2 x Warehouses in Auckland

1 x Airfreight facility Brisbane

2 x new cross-docks in Chicago and Dallas

Our Three Core Products (NZ$) FY 2025
TRANSPORT

Total tonnes increased 4%

Consignment counts increased in all regions other than New Zealand

Australian performance increased in volume and consignments – reflecting market share increases

Revenue $2,262.86 million 3.4% PBT $169.79 million 1.6%

WAREHOUSING

Total orders picked increased 2%

European activity declined in Belgium, and to a lesser extent in the Netherlands

Asian Warehouse strategy under review

Revenue $865.36 million 10.3% PBT $63.59 million 6.6%

AIR & OCEAN

Airfreight kilos increased 8% Sea freight TEUs increased 6%, with volumes up across all regions

Tariff impacts to year end negligible Customs clearances now exceed 250,000 per annum

Reduction of booking and shipments April/May

Revenue $2,108.21 million 20.9% PBT $150.20 million 8.0%

Capital Management
•Operating Cash Flows remain satisfactory $584 million v $505 million last year

•Net Capex $234 million - $111 million on property


•Net Funds of $14 million “cash at hand”

•Bank debt of $125 million. Debt reduction of $23 million

Total available bank facilities just renewed of $504 million

Discretionary Team Bonus Payments
General bonus payments are being made to our people in Australia,

Asia and Europe.

New Zealand and our USA businesses did not meet the performance

criteria for bonus payments.

RegionTeamBonus Payments

Europe1,824EU€2,489,046

Asia 215US$1,933,000

Australia 1,464AU$20,295,128

Total3,503NZ$30,464,054

Senior Executive Short-term Incentives
We mistakenly missed this disclosure from our Annual Report

At riskPBTRevenue

Growth

Return on

Revenue

QualityPeople

Development

Culture and

Supply Chain

Development

Weighting

20%20%15%15%15%15%

Short

Term

Incentive

33% of

Base

Salary

This years

PBT vs prior

year

This years

revenue

growth vs

prior year

Profit as %

of revenue

(ROR)

Weighted

average of key

quality

performance

stats for each

division

Team career

development

Network and

business

development

TargetIncrease

YOY

15% YOY7% - 15%

product

relevant

# customer

conversion

# network

increase

Our Network and quality supply chain logistics capabilities remain
a key strategic advantage. 39% of our top 500 customers are using

all three key products, up from 37%

“Expect further network intensification and development from 2026 to 2030”

As we develop our network – it assists our revenue and profitability
“Courtesy of an interested international investor”

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Profit per Branch

Revenue per Branch

Revenue & Profit per Branch

Profit per BranchRev Per Branch

Future Capital Expenditure Update: F26-27
Property and Fit-out costs F26-F27

New ZealandNZ$73.4 million

AustraliaAU$141.3 million

AmericasUS$28.8 million

Europe EU€25.6 million

Asia US$1.0 million

Total NZ$$330.0 million

“Whilst we will have a

cautionary approach to property

capex in 2026 and 2027, we

continue to invest in our facilities

and network”

New Zealand
•Market share and additional transportation opportunities to offset

increased property investments/overheads

•Warehousing and cross-dock investments provide long term growth

capacity

•Cook Strait ferry constraints offset by alternative services

•Import volume increases assisting Air & Ocean growth

Air & Ocean

Branches

16

Warehousing

Branches

20

Transport

Branches

56

Revenue

PBT

1.16b

134.5m

NZ

Australia
•Market share opportunities continue. Expect more

network intensification via new facilities and city

locations

•Expect ongoing long-term profitability as we find more

momentum in the Australian supply chain market

•Overflow warehouses discontinued by November 2025

Air & Ocean

Branches

16

Warehousing

Branches

16

Transport

Branches

40

Revenue

PBT

1.5b

137.5m

A

Asia
Air & Ocean

Branches

35

Warehousing

Branches

3

Revenue

PBT

126m

9.8m

US

•Strong focus on improving Air & Ocean growth

and margin performance

•Stronger focus on Europe and Australia trade

lanes

•Warehouse facility reduction to allow stronger

focus on core Air & Ocean activities

Americas
Air & Ocean

Branches

46

Warehousing

Branches

10

Transport

Branches

23

Revenue

PBT

666m

15.2m

US

•Best performing division is Air & Ocean.

Expect ongoing growth opportunities

•Expect acceptable profit performance from

Transport and Warehousing to take time

•Warehousing opportunities continue –

expansion into Toronto and New Jersey

Europe
Air & Ocean

Branches

18

Warehousing

Branches

12

Transport

Branches

26


Revenue

PBT

603m

31m

•Profit performance and sales growth dominated by

Netherlands and Belgium

•Expectation is to transition to a broader and better

European contribution

•Air & Ocean growth satisfactory

Auckland
(excluding Westney Rd airport sites,

Hobsonville and East Tamaki sites)

MFT 2Home Supersite

MFT Favona Rd WH

MFT Savill Dr WH

MFT Port Ops / Tankers / CFS

Alderman Place

MFT Beach Rd WH

MFT Manu St WH

MFT Railway Ln TPT / WH

Transport

Warehousing

South Auckland network intensification

“A mix of owned and leased properties”

Beach Road, Auckland
Specialist hazardous chemical warehousing

linked directly to Chemcouriers for distribution

“Currently 50% utilisation, customer gains to increase utilization to more than 77% this year”

Mainfreight 2Home, Auckland
Our specialist consumer goods division

“Large multi-national customer gains in effect late 2025”

Daily Freight, Auckland
Repurposed 50-year-old site

“Rail-served. Completion November 2025”

Chicago Cross-Dock
“Commitment to our USA aspirations”

Dallas Cross-Dock

Willawong, QLD, Australia
“New site for completion early 2026. Brisbane, our best performing Australian transport branch”

Sustainability
Lowering the impact of our operations

86% of handling equipment now electric

54% of car fleet now electric

Only 1% of truck fleet is electric

Investing in sustainable infrastructure

Further development of solar arrays and onsite rainwater collection points

9.4 MW in solar generation

9.8 MWh in battery storage

8.3 ML onsite water collection and usage

Bringing our partners along for the journey

Over 1,000 customers using our carbon tracking platform

Biofuels

Utilisation of SAF aircraft fuel ex New Zealand and HVO (Biofuel) in our

European truck fleet

Trading Update: Our Three Core Products
(17 weeks 1 April – 27 July 2025)

NZ$000REVENUE VAR %PROFIT BEFORE TAX VAR %

Transport

829,6434.0%


32,16227.2%


Warehousing283,0016.6%


9,85414.1%


Air & Ocean638,2723.5%


31,44223.6%


Total

1,750,9161.5%


73,45824.1%

Strong sales activities are providing a satisfactory level of new business
Customer trading gains from April 2025 - new customers

Trading Update: Sales Activity

Gains estimated

value per annum

Gains actual

spend YTD

AustraliaA$84 million9 million

USAUS$54 million10 million

EuropeE€44.5 million9 million

AsiaUS$2.6 million0.67 million

New ZealandNZ$52 million20 million

TOTALNZ$324 million65 million

Downtrading of existing customers April/July NZ$38 million

Trading Update:
Current trading conditions have been difficult

•Short trading weeks in April and May

•Trade tariff uncertainty across international trade lanes

New Zealand

•Market share gains improving revenue growth despite customer downtrading

in an average economic environment

•Additional overhead costs associated with new facilities having less of an

impact

Australia

•Continuing to find growth and ongoing profitability across core products

•Air & Ocean will not have the benefit of project revenue and profitability for

remainder of the year

Trading Update:
Asia

•Trade on TransPacific (USA) slowly returning to normality

•European trade lane growth a feature of current trading

Europe

•Improving performance post June

•Strong focus on labour cost reductions and improving margins

•European development to broaden revenue base to reduce

Netherlands/Belgium centricity

Americas

•Ongoing improvement in our Air & Ocean business

•Transport results continue to disappoint

•Warehousing improvements with ongoing sales campaigns

Outlook
While a slow and disappointing start to our year, we

expect ongoing improvement in trading, particularly

through the second half:

✓Improving economic outlook

✓Significant customer gains alongside improved

customer trading

✓Tighter management of overhead costs

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SCRIPTED ADDRESS

AND

PRESENTATION





30

th

Annual Meeting of Shareholders


4.00 pm, Wednesday 30

th

July 2025

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CHAIRMAN’S ADDRESS



My thanks to Don Braid and the team for a stunning annual report, as always, a

professional and powerful presentation of our company and its progress and

vision for the future.


Last month I had the pleasure of travelling with the New Zealand Initiative to the

Netherlands, a country of 41,000 square kilometres against New Zealand’s

268,000 square kilometres, with a population of 18 million to New Zealand’s

5.3 million. The GDP of the Netherlands is US$1 trillion, 13th in the world – while

New Zealand’s GDP is US252 billion, 52nd in the world.


New Zealand Netherlands

Square kilometres 268,680 41,543

Population 5.3 million 18.3 million

GDP current year estimate USD 222 billion USD 1 trillion

GDP per person USD 48,000 USD 64,000

GDP Position in World 52

nd

13

th



While all numbers are from Mr Google, they have been averaged for this

comment.


These numbers show the difference in wealth creation between New Zealand and

the Netherlands.

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Perhaps few activities would be more intriguing than cycle riding. There are

thousands of cyclists every day going to school, work, shopping, or the next town

– no matter the weather and without accidents or drama.


There is a wide range in the quality of the cycle lanes from being exclusively for

cyclists to lanes shared with other traffic. It seems very safe with no visible sign of

aggressive drivers.


The thing which is not noticeable is that virtually no-one, including children, are

expected or ordered to wear a crash helmet. How no helmets have evolved is

unknown, but I suggest that it was evident that drivers would be more careful

around bikers without helmets, and they are. If a car has an accident with a bike

prima-facie, it is the fault of the driver of the car.


Other thoughts promoting actions – there are virtually no orange traffic cones

anywhere. I noticed a couple of sites that used large trucks to signify a

construction site.


The stunning sites of automation on the enormous Rotterdam wharfs, all 42

kilometres of them, with driverless container lifters with no entry allowed into the

area, and the complete automation of packing and loading containers of beer was

very special.


The sights of a university with the slogan “Making dreams come true” in all sorts

of real skills in every imaginable engineering field seemingly without limits, made

us as visitors feel humble and inadequate.

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New Zealand and Mainfreight must have much bigger ambitions for our business

and our country.


Let us all encourage more New Zealand businesses to look over the fence and

have a go at establishing themselves in the larger economies of the world.


It’s not easy. It comes with hard work, and so it should, and it will help them be

better back home in New Zealand.


As investors, let us not be too critical of them as they get underway. It takes time.

Just as Mainfreight has done, a long-term vision will always benefit good

companies.


Thank you for the opportunity to express our thoughts, feelings and ambition for

the future, and thank you shareholders and our teams throughout the world, for

your support and aroha for our wonderful company.


Fellow shareholders, I now ask Group Managing Director Don Braid to give his

presentation.



Group Managing Director’s Presentation


Please refer to separate PowerPoint slide presentation.


For further information, please contact Don Braid, Group Managing Director,

telephone +64 9 259 5503, +64 274 961 637 or email don@mainfreight.com.

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