Segment Access Solutions APAC
5 min.AS APAC achieved total sales of CHF 415.2 million in the financial year 2020/21. Organic sales grew by 4.3% year-on-year. In the first half of 2020/21, organic sales were 10.5% below the previous year due to the pandemic and related project delays. Despite major countries (e.g. Australia) and regions (e.g. Southeast Asia) still being negatively impacted by regional lockdowns, there was a strong recovery in the second half-year, thanks to good demand in China and India. This resulted in 24.0% organic growth compared to the second half of 2019/20.
Most Product Clusters contributed to growth. Good growth came from Services, electronic products such as digital locks, and particularly from the business with touchless access solutions in China where dormakaba is a market leader.
EBITDA reached CHF 58.9 million (previous year CHF 54.8 million). The EBITDA margin increased by 0.6 percentage points to 14.2% compared to the previous year’s level of 13.6%. The EBITDA margin improvement was driven by higher volumes, cost and efficiency gains as well as procurement savings, which offset a negative mix effect caused by stronger sales in the lower margin OEM business (Wah Yuet, China) for the US market.
Barring new waves of Covid-19 outbreaks, AS APAC expects moderate organic growth based on continued strength in China, a strong order intake and a solid project pipeline. The segment will benefit from project wins, including several hospitals in Australia, airports in China and India, the Shangri-La Hotel in Beijing, and the Shanghai Bank in China.
Growth will also be driven by new, innovative products for touchless solutions, like a new face recognition terminal that is easily integrated with automatic doors or physical access systems, thus enabling touchless access to buildings and rooms. Another example is anti-microbial surface protection for hardware which people have to touch. This product has been certified as helping to prevent transmission of Covid-19. It has been launched in India in February 2021 and will be rolled out to other countries during financial year 2021/22.
The segment will continue to increase sales prices to compensate for higher raw material costs. It has initiated measures to secure supplies of scarce electronic components to enable further growth for its electronic access solutions.
Key figures - segment AS APAC
CHF million, except where indicated |
| Financial year ended 30.06.2021 | % |
| Financial year ended 30.06.2020 | % |
| Change on previous year in % |
Net sales third parties |
| 390.2 |
|
| 378.2 |
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| 3.2 |
Intercompany sales |
| 25.0 |
|
| 24.2 |
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Total segment sales |
| 415.2 |
|
| 402.4 |
|
| 3.2 |
Change in segment sales |
| 12.8 | 3.2 |
| –59.9 | –12.9 |
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Of which translation exchange differences |
| –5.9 | –1.5 |
| –20.6 | –4.4 |
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Of which acquisition (disposal) impact |
| 1.5 | 0.4 |
| 0.0 | 0.0 |
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Of which organic sales growth |
| 17.2 | 4.3 |
| –39.3 | –8.5 |
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Operating profit before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) |
| 58.9 | 14.2 |
| 54.8 | 13.6 |
| 7.5 |
Average number of full-time equivalent employees |
| 3,073 |
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| 3,299 |
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Segment sales (CHF million) - AS APAC
