Introduction
Glanbia intends to be one of the leading companies in international cheese, nutritional and dairy ingredients and selected consumer foods business. Its strategic objectives are focused on achieving and sustaining double digit earnings growth, to improve its operating margins, allocate capital to a mix of higher growth opportunities and to diversify the group's earning base to reduce volatility.
Scope
Highlights
Glanbia is the largest dairy-products company in Ireland, and an important cheese maker in Europe, the UK, and the US. Through a joint venture with US-based Leprino Foods, the company operates Glanbia Cheese, the leading mozzarella cheese maker for the European pizza market.
The company has 5,312 milk suppliers supplying dairy based products to the company. Glanbia has sales and marketing joint venture with Conabia, to market dairy ingredients sourced from Ireland, Uruguay and other suppliers to a range of industrial customers in a number of countries in Latin America.
The Group has had a strong program of investment behind its growth strategy in recent years with E214 million invested in development opportunities since 2004. In January 2008, the company announced that it has entered into negotiations, which may lead to a transaction being concluded whereby the group will sell its Meats business to an MBO team.
Reasons to Purchase
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Overview 1
Catalyst 1
Summary 1
Company Structure 5
Company Overview and Key Facts 5
(E=1.25622US$ as on December 2006)Business Description 5
Business Description 6
History 8
Company Locations and Subsidiaries 9
Company Financials 11
Overview 11
Revenue by Division 11
Revenue by Geography 11
Products and Services List 13
Major Products and Services 13
List of Products 13
List of Brands 13
Competitors and strategic business relationships 14
Top Competitors 14
List of Competitors 14
Suppliers and Partners 15
Clients 16
Shareholding Structure 17
Strategy 18
Vision 18
Company Statement 19
Strategy 22
Corporate Social Responsibility 23
SWOT Analysis 25
Overview 25
Strengths 26
Weaknesses 28
Opportunities 29
Threats 31
Value Chain Analysis 33
Overview 33
Raw Materials 34
Manufacturing 34
Distribution and sales 34
Marketing 34
Services 34
Key Employees 35
List of Key Employees 35
Key Employee Biographies 36
Financial and Operational Overview 43
Financial Overview 43
Key Industry-specific Ratios 45
APPENDIX 46
Data Definitions 46
Ask the analyst 46
Datamonitor consulting 46
Disclaimer 47
TABLES
Table 1: Glanbia - Key Facts 5
Table 2: Glanbia - Other Locations and Subsidiaries 9
Table 3: Glanbia - Revenue by Division, 2005-2006 (E Mn) 11
Table 4: Glanbia - Revenue by Geography, 2005-2006 (E Mn) 12
Table 5: Glanbia- List of Products 13
Table 6: Glanbia- List of Brands 13
Table 7: Glanbia - List of Competitors 14
Table 8: Glanbia - Key Shareholders 17
Table 9: Glanbia - SWOT Analysis Summary 25
Table 10: Glanbia - Value Chain Analysis 33
Table 11: Glanbia - Key Employees 35
Table 12: Glanbia - Financial and Operational Highlights, 2002-2006 ($ Mn) 43
Table 13: Glanbia - Key Industry-specific Ratios, 2002-2006 45
Table 14: Glanbia - Data Definitions 46