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2012 Annual Report - Italcementi Group

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<strong>2012</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />

Presentation 4<br />

General information 14<br />

<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> Consolidated <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> Directors’ report 30<br />

Sustainability disclosure <strong>Italcementi</strong> S.p.A. <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> Consolidated financial statements 63<br />

Extraordinary session 351<br />

Performance by country and business<br />

The <strong>Group</strong> in <strong>2012</strong><br />

Cement:<br />

No.<br />

full-cycle cement plants 49<br />

grinding centers 10<br />

trading terminals 7<br />

Aggregates:<br />

quarries 115<br />

Ready mixed concrete:<br />

plants 449<br />

CENTRAL WESTERN EUROPE<br />

Italy<br />

France/<br />

Belgium<br />

Spain<br />

Others (1) Total Central Western<br />

Europe<br />

Full-cycle cement plants 14 10 3 1 28<br />

Grinding centers 5 1 - - 6<br />

Terminals 2 - - - 2<br />

Quarries 24 77 6 1 108<br />

Ready mixed concrete plants 132 187 7 1 327<br />

<strong>2012</strong> 2011 <strong>2012</strong> 2011 <strong>2012</strong> 2011 <strong>2012</strong> 2011 <strong>2012</strong> 2011 <strong>2012</strong> 2011<br />

Italy 800.0 918.1 (25.2) (12.6) (40.8) 10.4 (171.6) (142.4) 71.8 76.9 3,194 3,439<br />

France-<br />

Belgium 1,501.7 1,589.7 262.8 302.8 264.1 313.7 169.0 215.6 89.6 82.6 4,051 4,113<br />

Spain 111.3 155.4 (1.2) 18.5 (4.3) 17.6 (177.4) (58.2) 8.1 7.6 515 597<br />

Others (1) 28.4 41.8 (4.0) (1.6) (4.0) (1.4) (43.5) (19.0) 9.5 4.4 174 194<br />

Eliminations (23.4) (24.2) - - - - - - - - - -<br />

Total 2,417.9 2,680.8 232.4 307.1 214.9 340.3 (223.6) (4.1) 179.0 171.5 7,934 8,343<br />

(1) Greece<br />

Revenue<br />

Recurring<br />

EBITDA<br />

EBITDA<br />

EBIT<br />

Capital<br />

expenditure<br />

Employees<br />

Italy<br />

<strong>2012</strong> saw a strong downturn in demand for cement due to the worsening crisis in building<br />

construction as a result of the lack of liquidity and rising fiscal pressure. Cement<br />

consumption fell for the sixth year running, with a particularly sharp contraction, in all areas<br />

of the segment excluding maintenance, and in geographical terms was particularly marked<br />

in central Italy. On the trading front, there was a significant fall in cement imports.<br />

Our cement and clinker sales volumes dropped by 24.6% from 2011, showing a more<br />

negative trend than the market, due to selective measures based on customer solvency<br />

and the change in the scope of production. Sales prices showed an important improvement<br />

from 2011, with a positive impact on recurring EBITDA in the cement segment, which<br />

counterbalanced the negative volume effect. In variable costs, there was a strong increase<br />

in the cost of electricity. This was offset to a large degree by measures to raise efficiency,<br />

in part through the plan to re-organize the production network launched in <strong>2012</strong>. The plan<br />

led to the sale in June of the Pontassieve cement plant and the interruption in the third<br />

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