Silver Fern Farms sees FY profits slide

  • November 30, 2010
  • source: just-food

New Zealand meat processor Silver Fern Farms revealed last week that it had swung to a loss in its most recent financial year after restructuring costs hit its bottom line.

For the 12 months to the end of September, the firm made a net operating loss of NZ$800,000, compared to a profit of NZ$5.4m last year.

One-off restructuring costs of NZ$7.2m contributed to the loss. Silver Fern’s EBIT halved, falling from NZ$36.3m to NZ$18m. Revenues dropped to NZ$1.81bn from NZ$2.01bn.

Silver Fern Farms chairman Eoin Garden said that, despite the loss, the company’s “robust” balance sheet now enables the company to focus on “delivering long term profitability”.

Garden said: “It has been a tough, but successful three years, with the company reducing debt by NZ$215m since August 2007, closing three plants and six lamb chains and exiting the Brooks of Norwich operation in the UK.”

Chief executive Keith Cooper added that the 2009/2010 trading environment was “challenging” and pointed to a “volatile” exchange rate and lower lamb numbers.

However, he insisted the company is now in “a strong financial position for the future”.

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