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CORPORATE
PARTICIPANTS
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
Royal
Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
Theo van
Deursen
Philips
Lighting - EVP, CEO
CONFERENCE
CALL PARTICIPANTS
Ali Khwaja
UBS -
Analyst
Martin
Wilkie
Deutsche
Bank - Analyst
Alex Surla
Merrill
Lynch - Analyst
Timm
Schulze-Melander
Bear
Stearns - Analyst
Simon Smith
Citigroup -
Analyst
Francois
Meunier
Cazenove -
Analyst
Swantje
Conrad
JPMorgan -
Analyst
Didier
Scemama
ABN AMRO -
Analyst
Jan Berghuis
Kempen
& Co. - Analyst
PRESENTATION
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank
you for standing by. Welcome to the Royal Philips Electronics conference call
on Monday, 26th of
November
2007. Following todays announcement of the agreement to acquire Genlyte, a
leading North American luminaires manufacturer.
For the introduction by Mr. Pierre-Jean Sivignon, Chief Financial Officer who
at this moment is in Bareilly, India. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. After the introduction
there will be an opportunity to ask questions of Mr. Pierre-Jean Sivignon, as well as Mr. Theo van Deursen,
Chief Executive Officer of Philips Lighting who is in Amsterdam. (OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS). Please note that this
call will be recorded and is available by webcast and website of Royal Philips
Electronics. I will now hand the
conference over to Mr. Pierre-Jean Sivignon; please go ahead, sir.
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
Good morning. We are very
excited at Philips to be able to announce today the agreement to acquire
Genlyte, the number two
luminaires
manufacturer in North America. We are making an all-cash offer of $95.5 per
share implying a total equity value of approximately $2.7 billion. This implies a transaction multiple of 11.3
times, the EBITDA estimated for 2007. Genlyte designs, manufactures and sell lighting fixtures,
controlled and related products for a wide variety of application, including
solid-state lighting.
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The Company is best-in-class
amongst the US luminaire players and generated sales of $1.6 billion at an
EBITDA margin of 14.9%
over
the last 12 months up to September 2007. Genlyte has achieved a very solid
growth record in recent years and is known for its high-end and innovative product offering. 88% of revenues in
2006 were related to commercial and industrial markets with the remainder coming from the residential
market.
This transaction will create
the number one lighting company in North America and will position Philips as a
leading global
luminaires
company. Philips and Genlyte are planning to grow the business by introducing
Philips innovative greener technology in North America through Genlytes extensive contacts with distributors,
architects and designers, and by introducing Genlytes products to an international market. It
leverages Philips earlier successful acquisitions of Color Kinetics, Partners
in Lighting, TIR and Lumileds.
And it signals continuing investment in all lighting business. The transaction
meets all Philips acquisition criteria.
Acquiring a luminaires
company in the United States is of strategic importance to Philips as it offers
significant benefit in the
rollout
of green lighting technologies. The growth opportunity exists in the
installment business of innovative lighting solutions. Market-driven innovation is key when customer
needs are changing and luminaires and controls activities are closest to
end-users. Genlyte has very
strong relationships with architects and specifiers in the United States, the
worlds largest lighting market and as such can function as our spearhead in developing green lighting
markets.
We are anticipating this
acquisition to be EVA positive after year four, based on synergies in the areas
of cost savings opportunities
in manufacturing and procurement by leveraging our global scale, revenue
opportunities from selectively expanding Genlytes sales internationally under the Philips brand
by leveraging Philips global distribution network, as well. And the
accelerated adoption of greener
technologies including solid-state lighting solutions.
Genlytes Board of Directors
has unanimously approved the transaction and will recommend the offer to its
shareholders. We
expect to
launch the offer within five days and hope to close the transaction in the
first quarter of 2008. Genlyte will be integrated into the luminaires business group within
Philips Lighting. Together with Theo van Deursen, the CEO of Philips Lighting I
am now willing to answer
questions.
QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Operator
(OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS)
Nicolas Gaudois.
Ali Khwaja
- UBS - Analyst
My name is [Ali Khwaja]
calling on behalf of Nicolas Gaudois from UBS. I have two questions. Number
one, is there any overlap
between
Color Kinetics and Genlyte, and if so how do you plan to resolve that? And
secondly, will there be any acquisition related charges and if yes, then what will be the range for those charges?
Thank you.
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
Sorry I couldnt hear your
first questions. Could you repeat?
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Ali Khwaja
- UBS - Analyst
Are there any overlaps
between the business of Color Kinetics that you acquired last year and Genlyte
because both operate
in
the US market? And if so, how do you plan to reconcile them? And secondly, are
there any acquisition related charges to this acquisition?
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
I think to the first
questions the overlap with the Color Kinetics SSL business to this day is
minimal. So this is an opportunity, of
course. And to the second questions, do we have acquisition charges, I
think you will have those details in the full document which will be released in the days to come.
But we expect to have about $20 million of legal costs I think on the other
side, and Im not aware of any
other costs at this particular point.
Ali Khwaja
- UBS - Analyst
Thank you.
Operator
Martin Wilkie.
Martin
Wilkie
- Deutsche Bank - Analyst
Deutsche Bank. A couple
questions. Could you just let us know organically the growth light at Genlytes
for the last 12 months
or
where you are looking at that and how that compares to the existing growth
light within the Philips lighting division? And secondly, just on the synergies, you mentioned they should be EVA
positive I think after year four. But if you could just let us know what youre assuming as part of that; I
think the comparison you give on slide 17 is pre synergies. Could you just
quantify perhaps some of these
manufacturing and procurement synergies that youre seeing as part of the
transaction. Thank you.
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
In terms of Genlytes growth
to give you numbers, the growth of Genlyte in the last if you look at the
last three years in a
market
which has grown at about 3% as an average, there the minimum growth was 12%.
And their growth excluding acquisition which is organic, has been 8%. If I now compare that to the growth of
lighting, the existing portfolio of lighting, the organic growth of lighting has been actually gradually
increasing to reach the guidance that we are for this year which is at 6%. So I would say that both in terms of nominal
as well as in terms of organic, the growth of Genlyte has been ahead like for
like, of Philips current
portfolio.
Now to your question on the
synergies, yes, I think we have I have given you as much as I could in terms
of the territories
where
we have synergies, where synergy will be both on the cost side because of
course we will have capabilities to buy by grouping the two companies together there as well on the revenue side
obviously. To the first question which was raised does that include any business today coming from in
particular Color Kinetics? The answer was it is quite small today, but we
obviously plan to obviously
capitalize on that quite a bit. So if you include those synergies which could
represent I think in terms of EBITA impact on the horizon of 2009, 2010, I would say on the revenue side
probably around 30 million. In terms of impact on EBITA on the cost side, I would say an amount in
that vicinity as well. Those are the kind of overall impacts of the synergies
on Philips Lighting for this
acquisition.
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And as I mentioned in terms
of EVA accretion it should be EVA accretive after year four using WACC, which
would be at 8.4%. And the one other thing I want to mention which I think is
quite important is that in terms of multiples, we are basically paying for this
company a multiple of 11.3 times the EBITDA of 07. And if you look at the way
the Philips business is valued today excluding Genlyte, and that is all before
synergies of course brought by this deal, we are valued at 13.5 times. So I
think the other interesting thing is we pay 11.3 times EBITA, which we bring to
a business which is today valued at 13.5 times. And Im using 07 multiples.
Martin
Wilkie
- Deutsche Bank - Analyst
Thank you very much.
Operator
(OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS) Alex
Surla.
Alex Surla
- Merrill Lynch - Analyst
Alex Surla, Merrill Lynch. If
I could just follow up on this last question when we talk about $30 million in
revenue synergies on EBITA line and $30 million of cost synergies on EBITA line
for a combined $60 million, is that in euros or in dollars?
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
I think those numbers in
let me check first of all those numbers are as usual as you know very
conservative. I think those numbers are in dollars. Give me one second.
Theo van
Deursen
- Philips Lighting - EVP, CEO
No, I have to correct it. The
numbers are in the euros.
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
Euros, okay so euros.
Alex Surla
- Merrill Lynch - Analyst
And the second question I had
is in terms of strategy for this business going forward apparently was run
quite as a decentralized business with multitude, multitude of different
brands. What is your strategy with this business? Will you try to consolidate
or run it as decentralized? A little bit of color there.
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
I think I will let Theo, I
think you should answer that.
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Theo van
Deursen
- Philips Lighting - EVP, CEO
If you look to the United
States today we have hardly any activity except what we have just acquired in
the form of Color Kinetics, which is specified in the sector of solid-state
lighting. So this activity in the United States can run as a separate business
unit within the business group of luminaires; and as such there is no need to
integrate that further. If you look to the brand, today it is a house of brands
under the umbrella name of Genlyte. Tomorrow this will be an umbrella name of
Philips. But we will keep the existing brand names for the various activities
for the time being.
Operator
(OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS)
[Olubunmi Asaolu]
Unidentified
Participant
Good morning. This is
(Olubunmi Asaolu) from Lehman Brothers. I just had a quick question on the size
of the acquisitions. This acquisition that youve announced this morning is
clearly the largest in many years. I know you havent given this early a target
in terms of size, but should we assume that within Lighting, Medical or DAP
that youre not necessarily bound by particular size? Could you go well above
this sort of level if you were to acquire, what would you expect going forward?
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
I think what drives
acquisition is value. I think in this particular case I think I like to insist
on this issue of the multiple. I think it is all about in this particular case
buying something which is totally synergistic with absolutely no overlap. And
in a situation where it is immediately creating value in terms of multiple and
in terms of EVA, I answered that as well. It is indeed larger than what we have
done, but it is at the same time in a business where we are world leader by now
with this particular project and with a very well-established management and a
very strong track record. So I will say that we feel quite comfortable
vis-a-vis the size of this acquisition; on top of that as you know luminaires
is not a new business for us. We have a strong presence today in Europe as well
as in Asia. So for all those reasons I think the size seems to us absolutely
manageable.
On top of that it is a
premium company, very well run with no headaches. Now vis-a-vis the size of the
businesses that Philips might acquire I think we our story there hasnt
changed. Weve been quite explicit at saying that we were looking at the deals
which were obviously of the same size of what weve done in the past, but we
were looking at deals as well which were medium-size and you could call this
deal of a medium-size, larger than the past. And we feel that in the businesses
that you have mentioned which are domestic appliances as well as medical, that
size of deal is something that we could be looking at. Weve done that by the
way in the past. The reason why it didnt happen in the past is that we
couldnt find deals we were comfortable with. So I would say nothing really new
there. Whats probably new is the fact that we could find a medium-size deal
which was making us comfortable in terms of capability to digest synergies and
value creation.
Theo, do you want to say
anything about the size of Genlyte versus your existing lighting business?
Theo van
Deursen
- Philips Lighting - EVP, CEO
No, what is important to
mention that Genlyte is a very pure play company, so it is only luminaires. So
we do not buy anything that doesnt fit in the total. It is an area that we
control very well and we have a lot of experience in, and I think the company
in the US has been extremely well run. So there should be no issue in
incorporating this into Philips Lighting.
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Operator
(OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS) Timm
Schulze-Melander.
Timm Schulze-Melander
- Bear Stearns - Analyst
Bear Stearns. One question,
one follow-up for Theo please. The first, who should we expecting to run the
Philips Lighting business in the U.S.? Maybe if you could just sort of give us
quick outline as to how Larry Powers and Bill Ferko may or may not be part of
that. And then secondly, within Genlyte can you just give us some sort of sense
as to how, what percentage of revenues are represented by solid-state lighting?
Thanks.
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
Theo, I think probably you
can take both questions.
Theo van
Deursen
- Philips Lighting - EVP, CEO
Yes, I will take them both.
First of all, we are very happy to tell that Larry Powers has agreed to stay
on, and we are very happy with that because he has been running this company in
an excellent form so he will stay on for the next coming time. And after that
we will see. Bill Ferko will also stay on. So most of the management team or in
fact, the whole management team will stay, and we have signed up with all of
them. Such there should be no issue, and the second question was around .
Timm
Schulze-Melander
- Bear Stearns - Analyst
Percentage of revenues
represented by solid-state lighting.
Theo van
Deursen
- Philips Lighting - EVP, CEO
In the Genlyte turnover
actually solid-state lighting is very minimal but growing, and there we can add
value because the capabilities we have acquired with Color Kinetics in the
United States can be easily rolled out into the Genlyte portfolio.
Operator
(OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS) Simon
Smith.
Simon Smith
- Citigroup - Analyst
Citigroup. The question I had
was just if you could maybe give us some understanding as the underlying
assumptions to your view that it would be EVA accretive by year four. Obviously
youve given us a sort of broad feel for what youre looking for in terms of
synergies, but I guess you are buying into a business which is being driven
more by the US commercial construction cycle. I guess within that your
assumptions have made some views, I just wondered if you could maybe let us
know what assumptions youve made to the growth of those underlying markets
over the next three to four years. Thank you.
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
I can certainly give you a
little bit more flavor there. I gave you the fundamental in terms of the ratios
WACC that we used. What I can add to this in terms of business scenario, we, as
you know, Genlyte is essentially almost 90% exposed to the commercial
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market and less than 10%
exposed to the residential market. What we used for the next few years we used
a market of commercial which will grow at around 3%, 3% plus. And weve assumed
that over those next few years we would be able to add a couple points on the
back of the innovation we will bring, as well as the kicking in of SSL in
particular, as well as the increased awareness obviously of cost of ownership
facing the, obviously the related to the cost of energy which is becoming a bit
of an issue as everybody knows in North America. So in terms of revenue, 3+ on
the fundamental market of reference; which by the way as I have said Genlyte
has consistently outgrown. And weve added a couple of points on the back of
the revenue synergies that I just mentioned. This would be the scenario, the
revenue scenario weve used for the next few years.
Simon Smith
- Citigroup - Analyst
Okay because I I mean it
almost, I mean the follow-up question, it almost just seems to be a little bit
conservative. Because if you start off from the assumptions that you have in
here of the sort of forecast in the markets, profitability of the business and
the numbers that youve included within your slides and in the implication for
2007 plus your synergies, it seems to be almost sort of zero growth coming
through. I am not sure whether I am .
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
As you know weve been
sometimes criticized for that but weve had a habit historically to be
extremely conservative on synergies. We are giving you total transparency. We
take pride at being capable to say on the road that we consistently [bar] or
exceed the track record that we have announced at the time of the acquisition
when we do post-mortem. Because we are very very since we are in capital
reallocation as you know weve always squeezed rightfully so on the performance
of our acquisition. And we always take the position to be very conservative at
the time of the announcement. Are we conservative? Probably. This is why we
have some comfort in talking about the EVA accretion after year four. But we
feel comfortable to be obviously at a time we build a track record on our
recent string of acquisitions. We feel good to be able to say that we exceed
those consistently. And I think with all due respect we would like to keep it
like this. It probably will exceed those numbers but I think that is what we
would like to communicate as that today.
Simon Smith
- Citigroup - Analyst
One last final follow-up;
obviously this is going to this deal very much changes your relationship with
your existing partners in the US. Youve obviously not really had a presence in
luminaires. Youve sold through or sold in partnership with a large third party
play. How do you see this particularly changing that relationship going
forward?
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
I will just answer briefly
and I will let really Theo talk about it. The one thing I will say is you are
correct for the United States. We were essentially supplying basically the
components in the US. We were not in the luminaires. But as you know, we are in
luminaires in Europe today and we are facing the kind of situation we will be
facing now in the US. We are an important luminaire player, and we are selling
as well components to the other players. So the model that youre describing as
being our future model for the US, is actually for years our model currently in
Europe. So it is a situation that weve proven that we are capable of handling.
But Theo maybe you should probably dwell on that.
Theo van
Deursen
- Philips Lighting - EVP, CEO
First of all, if you look to
the luminaire markets in the United States and most of the luminaires are
supplied without lamps in it. So it doesnt hurt too much our lamps business in
the US. If you look to the lighting and electronics where we have a strong
position in the US, then I must say that we are now a supplier of components as
well as luminaires so we are in competition with our customers. But this is a
situation that happens more and more in large companies where at the same time
youre a
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supplier of components or
youre a supplier and at the same time you can even be a customer or a
competitor. And we have proven in our track record in Europe that we can very
well handle to separate these businesses so that companies still feel a trust
in us as the supplier even if we are a competitor at the same time.
Simon Smith
- Citigroup - Analyst
Thank you.
Operator
(OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS)
Francois Meunier.
Francois
Meunier
- Cazenove - Analyst
Cazenove. I got two
questions. The first one is on the timing of the acquisition. The share price
of Genlyte has gone up, been multiplied by four in the past four years. Is it
for you a good time to buy? Could you have done it earlier, say two or three
years ago? Second question would be on the share buyback. I guess everyone is
watching the Dutch Parliament on (inaudible). We will have authorization to buy
to make more share buyback in the tune of EUR5 billion. What is the impact of
this acquisition potentially limiting the size of the share buyback next year?
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
I think to answer your first
question you have obviously to do things to do M&A you have to do things
in (technical difficulty) we feel, and I will let Theo dwell on that. But we
certainly feel strategically that the cost of ownership as well as the green
wave, but certainly the cost of ownership in particular in the professional
businesses which represents 90%, 85 to 90% of the overall Philips Lighting
business, we believe that those trends are now very much in place and certainly
there to stay. That is one thing.
The second thing is our
position in SSL is actually quite recent. As you know, it started with us
taking a position, majority and the full control of Lumileds successfully two
years and a half ago. But our position in luminaires, which was basically
triggered by C. K., Color Kinetics and TIR. That is only a few months ago.
Color Kinetics is an acquisition we could close only back in August 07; that
is only a few weeks back actually. So we felt that we wanted to absolutely lock
in those technology moves in order to have the maximum chance to leverage our
position in the luminaires in North America. So not only I would say the
drivers of cost of ownership and green lighting were there but the technology
weapon is something that we only took control of two months ago. And I think
that explains a lot of the sequencing of those events. So before I go into
capital reallocation, maybe Theo you might want to comment on the timing and
the sequencing of events.
Theo van
Deursen
- Philips Lighting - EVP, CEO
First of all, if you go a few
months back and the stock price of Genlyte was still $87, so it was not that
cheap a company as it would be today. And second, we needed to have first the
control over the technology, especially in solid state lighting and especially
on the IP portfolio to be able to be active in the US market. Now while that
has been done now it is fairly easy to roll that out with a company that has
excellent contacts with end-users, with architects and lighting designers. So
now we can make use of all those contacts in bringing those new technologies to
market in a very easy way.
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Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
Okay, so to come back to your
point, related to recent I would say progress made in the Netherlands, it is
correct that the first chamber has actually voted a couple of days ago a
change, an important change in the formula. I am not going to go into all the
details because I assume everybody or most people around the phone know that
formula, the thing is that what used to be 10 times the average dividend of the
average of the previous five calendar years minus the buyback of the four
calendar years, that multiple of ten has been proposed to be voted up to 20. I
think so one of the chambers has voted that a few days ago.
This will have to be
confirmed by a second voted at the Senate, which is expected sometime around
17th, 18th of December and shortly after that if this were to be the case, then
this could become law, so we still have to see that. So as Philips I cant
comment on the importance of this versus the mix. As you know, weve always in
the past been very, very careful about doing our moves tax-free. So this is
something that if it were to be confirmed we consider clearly as important; and
as weve said, we would come back to the market on the mid-January essentially
with the next news on capital relocation. And I would like to leave it at that
particular point, but we certainly see potential progress at the Dutch Parliament
as big news.
Francois
Meunier
- Cazenove - Analyst
Thank you very much.
Operator
(OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS)
[Swantje Conrad]
Swantje
Conrad
- JPMorgan - Analyst
[Swantje Conrad], JPMorgan. I
wanted to follow up on the theme of the outlook for the US construction market
and actually ask the other way around. Given that I think there is quite some
serious concern that the US construction both residential and commercial are
going to be hit quite hard over the next 12 to 18 months, can you walk us through
a little bit how much consideration that you have taken of that in determining
whether to make your move now or in six months time or in 12 months time? Or is
there something else we should be aware of?
And then I just wanted to
confirm your press release states that you signal continued investment in
lighting. Does that mean that we should expect more acquisitions on the
lighting side?
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
I will answer those two
questions. And Theo, I think certainly feel free to complement. In terms of
timing, first of all I want to emphasize that you have to make a big
distinction between which you have in your question between residential and
commercial. Genlyte is almost a pure play in commercial. I think what we call
industrial and commercial across North America with only up to 10% on the
residential side. As far as the timing of this acquisition I think Theo
mentioned that we obviously were very much waiting to have a very strong
feeling about technology because in terms of long-term leverage, in particular
long-term leverage on the back of cost of ownership we believe that SSL will
play a key role. And we believe that luminaire in particular in the
professional market will be obviously quite key, as well.
So we felt that once the
stock price had actually started to come down, we felt that adding very much
what we needed in terms of technology and given that the two trends which I
just referred to which is the cost of ownership as well as a green wave are
there to stay. We felt the whole thing was a good timing. We are fully aware
that the next 12 to 18 months could be difficult. But as I mentioned, we are
only 90% sorry we are only 10% on the residential side. Weve taken
conservative approach in our
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model as an answer to the
previous question. And we are looking at this certainly as I would say mid to
long-term play, even though we are happy to say that we will be EVA accretive
after four years. So all in all listing all those parameters we felt that the
timing was actually a good timing. Theo, do you want to add something there?
Theo van
Deursen
- Philips Lighting - EVP, CEO
Yes, Genlyte has been able to
grow despite so-called residential construction cycle in the past, so they have
proven that with their high reliance on commercial and industrial; they have
been able to outpace the market. If you look forward then we expect still the
home residential market to grow because the principal conditions for that
market are still good. So we do not expect that Genlyte will be hurt by the
slowdown in the residential market. And the part that the Genlyte is in the
residential market is only 12% but that is in the high-end residential market
which will be less affected than the lower and mid end residential market. So
we think still this is a good moment to acquire Genlyte.
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
To your questions on the
further M&A in the domain of lighting, if you look at the NOC of Philips
before this acquisition, the NOC of Philips was 11.5 billion invested 36% in
lighting. And when that acquisition will have closed, you will look at a NOC of
Philips and I am using of course the NOC numbers which have been published at
the end of September 07. You will look at a NOC of Philips of 13.4 billion
which will be 45% in lighting. So I think if you look at the last couple of
years we have invested probably a bit more money in lighting over that period
of time versus other businesses.
But on the other hand as we
said earlier on in this call we have now created a business which is growing at
6% which is now valued at a multiple of and I am using 07 multiple of 13.5
times which is certainly creating value for Philips. And again, in a world
where we are now the leader and as I said in a world which is sustained by two
long-term mega trends which are cost of ownership and green wave, which are
respectively impacting the I would say the consumer side, as well as the
professional side. So that is to say that we cant exclude some additional
M&A. I think weve done a lot. We feel good about what weve done. There
could be some more but we certainly are feeling quite comfortable about the
wave of acquisition weve done in particular in 07. Any comments on your
portfolio in lighting?
Theo van
Deursen
- Philips Lighting - EVP, CEO
You are asking me?
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
I think would you want to
complement on your portfolio in the lighting post Genlyte?
Theo van
Deursen
- Philips Lighting - EVP, CEO
I think in principal you did
very well. With Genlyte we have closed one of the very few white spots that we
still had, which was the luminaires position in the United States. As far as
the mega trends in lighting which means energy-saving lighting solutions as
well as solid-state lighting, which will conquer this world very fast. We are
now extremely well positioned in our view especially with the acquisitions we
did in the past period.
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Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
I think I would like the
audience to go to the page 12, page 11 and 12, which represent I think
certainly that answers where we were, where we are and what we need. And I
think you have a pretty good view of where we are and where we will be post
Genlyte. I think that answers in a long way your question.
Operator
(OPERATOR INSTRUCTIONS)
Didier Scemama, ABN AMRO.
Didier
Scemama
- ABN AMRO - Analyst
ABN AMRO. A couple of
questions, if I may. First question, I know that it is not guidelines for the
future but more of a historical pattern but respect you in the last three years
you have returned about 60% of the excess capital to shareholders and 40% for
acquisitions. With this deal would you say that the balance is clearly pointing
towards more sort of capital return to shareholders in the next 12 months? That
is my first question. And second, within green light revenues can you maybe
just give us a brief overview of the geographical exposure, i.e. East Coast,
West Coast and maybe even more the mainland United States of America please,
that would be useful.
Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
I think I will take the first
one and Theo I will let you answer the second one on the geographic mix of the
Genlyte revenue. I think nothing has changed. I explained that this is an
acquisition which had been larger than in past acquisitions but for reasons
which are, I would say much more coincidental. We were not trying to do
something bigger. We were trying to address an issue which by the way had been
flashed to us, a signal to us time after time on the road, which was a strategy
gap in luminaires in the US. The in-depth call so far weve tried to answer A,
we agreed with that, we didnt want to be too obvious about it for reasons
which Im sure you fully understand but we obviously fully agreed with that.
And in terms of the timing I
think weve explained why were doing it now. So I dont think there is
anything changed, versus what weve said. I think if you look back the ratios
that you are mentioning are correct. Weve always, as you know, kept the only
elements of flex weve left looking forward in our capital reallocation is the
mix between M&A and capital reallocation to shareholders. Weve always said
that shareholders were important for us, that the acquisition which we would do
would have to be value creative and completely synergistic, i.e. not taking the
market by surprise.
And weve said as well that
we would continue to work to make capital reallocation to shareholders as tax
efficient as possible. And I think hopefully that today, everything that you
know today is continuing to demonstrate that. In terms of talking to the shareholders
for the portion which relates to them as I said earlier on this call, next news
mid-January. But nothing new I would say in terms of the rationale, the method
and I would say the matrix in terms of objective we follow and the criteria we
try to implement. I dont think there is anything new there.
Didier
Scemama
- ABN AMRO - Analyst
Okay.
Theo van
Deursen
- Philips Lighting - EVP, CEO
Can you repeat the question
once more to make sure that I understood it well?
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Didier
Scemama
- ABN AMRO - Analyst
I was just wondering whether
there was any sort of geographical exposure that you are aware of; is it like
evenly split sort of in the United States or is it more exposed to the East
Coast or West Coast or maybe the Midwest, for instance?
Theo van
Deursen
- Philips Lighting - EVP, CEO
You mean Genlyte?
Didier
Scemama
- ABN AMRO - Analyst
Yes.
Theo van
Deursen
- Philips Lighting - EVP, CEO
Genlyte is the number one
player in the South and in the West. They are the biggest areas and the fastest
growing areas. And they are the number two players in the Midwest and the
Northeast.
Didier
Scemama
- ABN AMRO - Analyst
Okay, thanks.
Operator
Jan Berghuis.
Jan Berghuis
- Kempen & Co. -
Analyst
Kempen & Co. I had a
question on the manufacturing base. Can you indicate how much of the production
is outsourced and at what locations?
Theo van
Deursen
- Philips Lighting - EVP, CEO
Most of the products that
they sell they produce themselves in a large number of operations they have in
the United States.
Jan Berghuis
- Kempen & Co. -
Analyst
Okay.
Operator
Thank you, Mr. Sivignon.
There are no further questions. Please continue with any other points you may
wish to raise.
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Pierre-Jean
Sivignon
- Royal Philips Electronics - EVP, CFO
I think Theo van Deursen and
myself, we would like to thank you very much for attending this call. We want
to thank you for your questions. And Im sure that in the weeks to come we will
have plenty of opportunity to update you on the progress made on the closing of
this transaction. And post closing certainly on the progress made by Philips
Lighting in North America in the domain of luminaires. Thank you very much to everybody.
Goodbye.
Operator
Thank you. Ladies and
gentlemen, this concludes the Royal Philips Electronics conference call on the
26th of November 2007. Thank you for your participation. You may now
disconnect.
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