BUNZL COMPANY

Bunzl Company Financial Analysis

Bunzl Company Financial Analysis

Summary

Bunzl is a distribution and outsourcing company which serves different market sectors with products such as catering equipment; cleaning and hygiene products; disposable healthcare products; foodservice packaging; grocery store supplies; and personal protection equipment. The company has operations wide spread across 21 countries worldwide. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Global Markets Direct's Bunzl plc - Financial and Strategic Analysis Review is an in-depth business, strategic and financial analysis of Bunzl plc. The report provides a comprehensive insight into the company, including business structure and operations, executive biographies and key competitors. The hallmark of the report is the detailed strategic analysis of the company. This highlights its strengths and weaknesses and the opportunities and threats it faces going forward.

Scope

Provides key company information for business intelligence needs.

The company's strengths and weaknesses and areas of development or decline are analyzed. Financial, strategic and operational factors are considered.

The opportunities open to the company are considered and its growth potential assessed. Competitive or technological threats are highlighted.

The report contains critical company information - business structure and operations, the company history, major products and services, key competitors, key employees and executive biographies, different locations and important subsidiaries.

The report provides detailed financial ratios for the past five years as well as interim ratios for the last four quarters.

Financial ratios include profitability, margins and returns, liquidity and leverage, financial position and efficiency ratios.

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Dividend

The Board is recommending a 10% increase in the final divided to 14.15p. This brings the total dividend for the year to 20.6p, also an increase of 10%. This year we propose to reintroduce a scrip dividend alternative, subject to shareholder approval, to replace the existing dividend reinvestment plan. Further information, including details of how shareholders can elect to participate should they wish to do so, will be included with my letter to shareholders relating to the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.

Credit facilities

Bunzl has committed funding from the US private placement market and syndicated and bilateral facilities totalling £1.1 billion. The first significant facilities mature in December 2010 and the longest committed funding matures in 2018. We expect to remain comfortably within our banking covenants. We are a highly cash generative business and will continue to rely on diverse sources of funding to achieve our objectives.

Strategy In difficult economic conditions, Bunzl is pursuing its strategy of focusing on its strengths, continuously reviewing its cost base and consolidating the markets in which it competes. Through the pursuit of this strategy we have built leading positions in ...