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LEIBER’S
SUSTAINABLE

BUSINESS
jected range of 40 to 50 mio euros, par with 2019, sales would “only”
which was based on provisional reach 2.8 bn euros in ten years. MODEL
figures. Zooplus cites the busi- The company also highlighted
ness transacted with its core of its lower marketing expenditure
loyal customers as a significant compared with the previous
driver for the strong sales trend. year and the increase in gross
This base has increased in number profit margin of 30.5 per cent. It
from 4.2 to 4.9 mio customers. In was still 28.5 per cent after nine
September, the sales-related resale months in 2019. Another pleas-
rate achieved a new record high at ing statistic for the online retail-
ers was that the group result,
which was -10.6 mio euros in the
first nine months of the previous
year, rose to 15.2 mio euros in the
same period of fiscal 2020.

Forecast for the future We refine brewery
On 15 October, the board upped
its forecast for the third time by-products:
in 2020, now predicting sales
growth of between 16 and 19 Leiber YeaFi® (Functional
Board chairman Dr Cornelius Patt per cent, equivalent to a volume of Fibres & Brewers’ Yeast)
believes 2021 will be a positive 1.77 bn and 1.81 bn euros. EBITDA pro
year. CeFi®
was expected to be in the range (Autolysates/Nucleotides)
97 per cent, which was then sur- of 50 mio to 65 mio euros. At the
passed in October at 98 per cent. Capital Markets Day, Dr Cornelius Biolex® MB40
As Zooplus demonstrated with the Patt also ventured to give an ini- (MOS/Prebiotics)
aid of figures at the Capital Mar- tial forecast for 2021. Compared Leiber® Beta-S
kets Day, the shopping basket of with 2020, he expects growth of (Glucans/Immune modulators)
existing customers has grown sub- between 250 and 350 mio euros.
stantially within one year and is This would equate to sales growth Leiber NuTaste®
increasing with further purchases. of between 14 and 20 per cent, in (Yeast extracts/Palatability)
Based on this data, the online re- which case Zooplus would break This is our passion since 1954.
tailer calculated that sales would the two-billion-euro barrier this
reach 4.3 bn euros by 2030 at a year. As regards earnings before
resale rate of 98 per cent. If the rate interest, taxes, depreciation and
fell to 91 per cent, however, on a amortisation (EBITDA), Zooplus
Leiber
expects this to show further im- natural
provement and predicts EBITDA sustainable
70% of between 40 and 80 mio euros
for 2021. The company appears
to have convinced brokers re-
of Zooplus customers own garding its continued growth,
a cat, 52 per cent at least and the share price shot up on
one dog and ten per cent leibergmbh.de
have ornamental Capital Markets Day by 7 per cent
fish. to 160 euros, remaining at a high
level in the following weeks. n

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