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Corporation Strategy Analysis and Valuation. Bass and Whitbread. Brands. Introduction. Analysts representing an International Consulting Group Specialising in Business Strategy and M&A Asked to prepare presentation to the board of a rival company Your company is looking for:
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Corporation Strategy Analysis and Valuation Bass and Whitbread
Introduction • Analysts representing an International Consulting Group • Specialising in Business Strategy and M&A • Asked to prepare presentation to the board of a rival company • Your company is looking for: • How much you will need to pay? • Understanding of corporate strategy – opportunity for fit? • Understand the strategic choices made by each company over the past several years
Consultants Sharon Hodgson Quentin Cole Gary Woodman Bob Jose
Purpose • Evaluate each company in terms of: • Financial performance • Relative shareholder value creation • Analyse strategy in relation to performance • Conceptualise strategy and suitability to the industry
Industry Overview • Brewing industry • Important part of history • Adversely effected by Government regulation in 1989 • Consolidation in marketplace for horizontal integration • Fragmentation of global brewing market • Restaurant/Hotel industry • Effect of social and demographic changes • High cost to entry • Globalisation of companies • Resulting in M&A activity to reduce costs, increase quality & service Mass exodus from brewing industry
Whitbread Snapshot • Leading UK leisure provider • Leading health and fitness club operator • Largest budget hotel chain in Uk - 262 Travel Inns • 1,600 restaurants in Uk and Europe Turnover down -17% to £3095m Operating Profit down 4% to £394.8m Loss of £17.9m on disposal of Beer Company Dividend per share up 6% to 31.15p Adj. EPS down -1% to 53.49p
Whitbread Major Events • 1989 – Acquired Boddingtons Brewery • 1990 – Acquired Berni chain restaurants • 1995 – Acquired Marriot Hotels & David Lloyd Leisure (16 clubs) • 1998 – First significant disposals • 2000 – Sold Whitbread Beer Company for £394 m • Acquisition of Swallow Group • Sold 50% share of First Quench for £112 m • JV with Punch Group to develop Travel Inns • 2001 – Fairbar – combined pubs and bars group, sold for £1.6bn (£1.1bn went to shareholders)
Growth matrix for Whitbread Breweries (star pre 1990) Business growth rate David Lloyd health and fitness clubs ? Whitbread Hotel Co. Marriott Swallow Travel Inns Restaurants (pre 1990) H L £ Restaurants Beefeater, Pizza Hut Brewers Fayre TGI Fridays Costa Coffee Pelican Group Bella Pasta Café Rouge Mamma Amalfi Pubs/drinks (pre 1990) Breweries/pubs (disposed 00/01) H L Market share
Bass (Six Continents) Snapshot • Turnover up 22.8% to £3775m • Operating Profit up 24.8% to £776m • Profit on Disposal of Bass Breweries £1,231m • Dividend per share up 3.1% to 33.3p • Adj. EPS up 8.9% to 62.2p • “Leading Hotel Group and UK’s leading operator of managed restaurants, pubs and bars” • 3060 Hotels • 491,000 Rooms • 6 continents
Bass Major Events • 1989 – Acquire Holiday Inns International • 1990/01 – Cultivate and build Holiday Inn Brands • 1994 – Crowne Plaza & O’Neills brands launched • 1996– MMC blocks acquisition of Carlsberg-Tetley and Disposal of low growth/low profit companies • 1998 – Acquisition of Inter-Continental Hotels for £2 bn. • 2000 – Sell brewing arm and the Bass Brand • 2001 – Acquires Posthouse UK and hotels in Australia and US • 2001 – Bass changes name to Six Continents • Chief Exec headhunted
Growth matrix for Bass Breweries (star pre 1990) Business growth rate Harvesters O’Neills Ember Inns Toby ? Intercontinental Crowne Plaza Holiday Inn Holiday Express Restaurants (pre 1990) H L £ Hotels - building Britvic/Pepsi Hotels (2000 Onwards) Breweries/pubs (disposed 00/01) H L Market share
Current Share Price Bass 722p 22/11/01 High 1175p Low 438.5p Whitbread 564p 22/11/01 High 1130p Low 421p
Investor Analysis • Bass share price out-performing Whitbread and Hilton • Bass out-performing FTSE 100 by 12.5% • £1000 invested Jan 1994: • Bass gain of £486.16 (£1487.32) • Whitbread loss of £29.40 (£975.72) • Is this the whole story?
Valuations Market Capitalisation Whit:£1669.91 Bass: £6250.12 NAV Whit: £2645.70 Bass: £5379.00