ICADE PRESS RELEASE |
Paris, 30 November 2015 |
AN AMBITIOUS THREE-YEAR PLAN WITH IMMEDIATE STRONG START
André Martinez, Chairman of Icade's Board, and Olivier Wigniolle, Chief Executive Officer, present today their strategic plan for Icade, which received unanimous support from the Board of Directors.
A clear five-track strategic roadmap
- Ensure a future for the Services business outside of Icade
- Target a profitability of the property development activities in line with its peers and build synergies with our Investment activities
- Optimize our business parks portfolio by focusing on the assets demonstrating the highest value creation potential
- Improve the Offices' profitability through our property development pipeline and enlarge our investment scope to new major French cities
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Reinforce the leadership of our Healthcare business on the French market through selective acquisitions and active asset management
A new and simplified organization to drive synergies between our activities and foster a more collaborative culture within the Group
An ambitious Innovation & CSR roadmap
2015 guidance and dividend policy confirmed 2016-2018 ambition: - GAV increase (Group share) : from €9bn to €11bn in 2019
- Development sales increase: from €1bn to €1.3bn, with target return on equity of 12% for development by 2018
- Dividend policy based on recurring cash flow evolution
Olivier Wigniolle, Chief Executive Officer of Icade, said : « Icade is a unique company in the real estate sector, with strong foundations to achieve its ambition to focus and grow further. With the Board's full support, Icade's management has developed a clear roadmap with a view to establishing the group as a reference integrated real estate player, focused on delivering profitable growth.Today we announced several key strategic decisions, that will shape Icade's future, both in terms of operations but also in terms of organization. We are confident that we will achieve this ambitious plan, creating value for our shareholders and our employees.»
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Ensure a future for the Services business outside of Icade
While Icade's know-how is clearly recognized by the market, this activity lacks the necessary critical size in today's Icade organization, as it accounts for less than 3% of Icade's turnover. The profitable growth of the Services business requires to be supported by a large specialized player. Our priority for 2016 will be to find the most appropriate exit solution for this division.
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Target a profitability of the property development activities in line with its peers and build synergies with our investment activities
Icade firmly believes that significant synergies can be extracted by jointly operating the Group's property development activities and its investment activities. Creating one single team for both sourcing and execution, implementing one single purchasing department for capex to leverage on larger purchasing volume, or mutualizing some support functions are among the operational levers the Group intends to activate to unlock synergies and boost profitability. Based on its pipeline, Icade Promotion will contribute €400m to the Investment activities of Icade over the next three years.
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Optimize our business parks portfolio by focusing on the assets demonstrating the highest value creation potential
The Group's strategy for this asset class will be to adopt a dynamic and opportunistic approach in managing 'non core' Business Parks. Disposal of selected assets, switching to the most relevant asset class for the environment (e.g. convert part of sites into residential units) and enhancement of the occupancy rate of the core assets (improvement by 5 points targeted in 2018) through active asset management policy will be the cornerstone of our value creation strategy over the next three years.
Taking into account a differentiated valuation of our assets based on their location, we anticipate a decrease in business parks GAV of 4-6% vs.
30/06/2015 for the second half of 2015 on a comparable basis, leading to potential new impairments.
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Improve the Offices' profitability through our property development pipeline and enlarge our investment scope in new major French cities
Icade intends to keep on investing in the Paris Region through its own pipeline. Moreover, the Group plans to leverage on its in-house know-how and on Icade Promotion track record to enlarge its investment scope to French large cities, in order to improve the Group's risk / return profile.
Over the next three years, more asset rotation should reveal value creation on mature assets and we expect to be net buyer over the three-year plan.
In 2015, provision reversals are expected, although potentially partly offset by additional provisions.
- Reinforce the leadership of our Healthcare business on the French market through selective acquisitions
Icade's Healthcare is one of the key contributors to the Group's cash-flow and carries significant value creation potential over the next three years. The Group intends to foster its leadership position by enlarging its French footprint through selective acquisitions. Active asset management (extensions, capex plans, opportunistic disposals, leases renewals) will also contribute to unlocking significant value.
This strategy will be underpinned by an ambitious Innovation and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) roadmap as it forms an integral part of Icade's business model. Strong CSR commitments regarding sustainability, client relationships and HR policy will contribute to excellence and performance.
Icade confirms its 2015 guidance on EPRA Recurring Net Result and Group Cash-Flow, and its dividend policy for 2015.
For the 2016-2018 period, Icade will maintain its current financial policy and has set itself the following ambition, as a result of its new strategy:
An increase of the Gross Asset Value (GAV), from €9bn to €11bn in 2019
An increase of development sales, from €1bn to €1.3bn, with target return on equity (RoE) of 12% for development by 2018
A dividend policy based on Recurring Cash-Flow evolution
In French: http://www.icade.fr/finance/resultats-publications/presentations-financieres
In English: http://www.icade.fr/en/finance/results-and-publications/financialpresentations
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