Operational review Bidvest Foodservice - Europe

  • 3663 achieves profit growth in tough market
  • Bidvest Logistics renews ageing fleet
  • Seafood Holdings responds well to ownership change
  • Deli XL Belgium maintains strategic growth
  • Deli XL Netherlands grows profit in a tough market
  • Excellent cash generation at Nowaco
  • Farutex achieves pleasing growth in profit and sales

Europe

Comprises market leading foodservice product distributors in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Sources and processes highly regarded own brands and provides products, quality ingredients, finished products, equipment and logistics to the catering and hospitality industry.

 
3663 Wholesale
Alex Fisher
Managing director		 Deli XL Netherlands
Dick Slootweg
Managing director 		Bidvest Logistics
Andrew Selley
Managing director
     
Nowaco
Bohumil Volf
General manager		 Seafood Holdings
Stephen Oswald
Managing director		 Farutex
Pawel Swiechowicz ´
Administration director
     
Horeca Trade and Al Diyafa
Hisham Al Jamil
Managing director		    

 

Revenue

R34,7 billion

2,2% decrease

Trading profit

R842,5 million

6,2% decrease

  

 

Financial indicators
(for the year ended June 30)		 2011
R’m		 2010
R’m
Revenue 34 664,9 35 460,8
Trading profit 842,5 897,8
Operating assets 7 571,0 6 784,4
Operating liabilities 6 132,7 5 483,2
Depreciation 355,2 405,3
Amortisation and impairments of intangible assets 213,8 62,6
Goodwill and intangible assets 4 673,5 4 211,0
Sustainable development indicator overview    
Employees 10 285 10 115
Total training spend (R’000) 12 442 14 146
Training spend per employee (R) 1 210 1 398
Employees attending HIV/Aids training (%) – –
Lost-time injury frequency rate 11,5 7,6
Work-related fatalities (number) – 1
CSI spend (R’000) 6 557 6 346
Total water usage (litres ’000) 246 457 202 401
Total electricity usage (including electricity from renewable sources) (kWh ’000) 122 231 126 831*
Petrol (litres) 659 776 514 521
Diesel and biofuel (litres) 32 546 956 31 280 887
Total carbon emissions (tonnes) 125 072 121 031*
Carbon emissions per employee (tonnes) 12,1 12,0*
* 2010 restated figures.    

 

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Material sustainable development issues

  • Demand for reduction of environmental impacts, particularly carbon performance impacted by food miles,
    fuel and energy use, and packaging and water use
  • Demand for healthier and more sustainable foods
  • Demand for accurate and robust information on food labelling including nutritional and calorific data,
    and food origin (provenance)
  • Demand for local and seasonal produce
  • Managing and minimising environmental impacts, including resource consumption, water and energy usage
  • Compliance with tightening environmental legislation, regulations and risk management