Interim results presentation - Half year ended 31 March...
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• 38% increase in global pets on plan to 161,000 (2015: 117,000)
• 35% increase in Group continuing revenues to £1.2m (March 2016: £0.9m)
• 16% increase in UK PPCP revenues to £0.9m (March 2016: £0.8m)
• 144% increase in PPCP overseas revenues to £0.3m (March 2016: £0.1m)
• Significant investment in expansion of overseas operations
• Co-operation agreement signed with Midwest Veterinary Supply Inc, a major veterinary distributor, in February 2017
• Loss after tax from continuing operations £2.1m (2016: £1.5m)
Highlights
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• Sale of business, trade and assets of the Premier Buying Group (“PBG”)
• £4.8m net cash proceeds from PBG sale to repay existing debt and fund international growth strategy
• Actions being implemented to address identified differences between UK and US markets
Post period events
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• PVG are creating a global market
• Sticky and diverse customer base
• Recurring revenue stream with compounding growth
• Bespoke scalable IT platform underpinning international operations
• No bad debt exposure
• An aggressive growth opportunity underpinned by cooperation agreements (Mid- West, Zoetis, MVS, VPI)
Business fundamentals
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What are Preventative Health Plans?
• A structured monthly payment scheme for cats, dogs and rabbits covering many of the fixed cost, non-insurable items exclusive to veterinary practices
• Delivers gold standard care to the pet at an affordable price
• Delivers for the practice, significant improvements in contracted revenue, cash flow, clients, footfall and loyalty from clients
• Revenue streams come from:• direct debit fee per pet per month plus • set up fee per new pet plus • practice set up fee plus • manufacturer support fees
Typically included in the plan would be:
• Annual booster
• 2 consultations with the Vet
• 12 months Flea/tick control
• 12 months worm control
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Benefits of the plan
• Significantly improved sales due to increased compliance• Bringing new value added business services to the practices• Brand reinforcement to new and existing clients• Improved accuracy in sales forecasting
Guaranteed monthly revenue
Improved client
retentions
Attract new clients
Improved cash flow
Costs spread evenly over 12 months
Gold standard health plan
Manufacturer/Distributor/ Wholesaler
Practice The Client
Loyalty discounts on
additional purchases
Value for money on premium products
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Global IT platform
• Modular system architecture
• Common customer portal interfaces with multiple payment processing methodologies
• Portal interface to “best in class” off-the-shelf processing systems
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Global PCP Web Portal
GoToBillingCredit Card
Gateway
WorldPay
Payment Processing Systems
Customer interface & Data capture
BACS Active
FundTech
BACS Clearing
SEPA Clearing
Denmark Clearing
Citizen Bank
3rd party platforms
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Quarterly collection statistics – UK and Europe
• 483,000 transactions in Q1 2017 (equivalent to 1.9m annual transactions) – 45% increase on same quarter last year
• Customer spend of £7.0m in Q1 2017 (equivalent to £28.0m annualised spend)
• Generates sticky revenues for PVG
• 38% increase in pets on plan in last twelve months
• 164,000 fee generating pets in April 2017 with growth in all regions
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Pets on plan # of fee generating pets on plan
000s Mar - 16 Jun – 16 Sep – 16 Dec – 16 Mar-17
UK 107 115 121 132 137
Europe 10 14 18 21 22
US - - - 1 2
Total 117 129 139 154 161
Calendar Quarters
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Global Clinic Relationships (31 March 2017) • Despite disposal of Buying Group, PVG still maintains number of relationships with clinics in line with other significant industry players
• Important influence when negotiating with pharmaceutical manufacturers and wholesalers/distributors
Diverse customer base
• Total of 385 contracts with practices throughout UK, Europe and US*
• Group has limited exposure to large corporate veterinary practices – reducing risk of revenue fluctuation from corporate acquisition activity
• Only Medivet, the Group’s largest customer practice, has over 10,000 pets on plan
• Vast majority of practices have less than 1,000 pets on plan
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*Practices represent the contractual relationship. One practice may have multiple clinics
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Market opportunities
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Market data UK Neth Germany France Denmark USA
Population 64m 17m 81m 66m 5.5m 319m
Households 26m 7.4m 41m 26m 2.6m 123m
Dog population 8.5m 1.6m 5.3m 7.4m 0.6 70m
Dog ownership households 24% 19% 13% 21% 21% 36%
Cat population 8.5m 2.6m 8.2m 11.4m 0.5m 74m
Cat owner households 19% 26% 16% 27% 18% 30%
New clinic addressable market - UK
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UK Market Share/Opportunity
IVC
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Vets4Pets
Best Friends
Medivet Pet Care Plan
PVA Pet Care Plan
Market Opportunity
• UK market for PPCP is better established than in US and Europe
• PPCP does not just serve independent sector - Medivet and Best Friends both use PPCP
• A substantial market opportunity remains
Total small animal clinics – c4,800
Addressable market analysis – Europe
• PPCP established 12% market share in Netherlands
• Exploring French, German and Danish market opportunities
• French market has closer attributes to UK with distributors and buying groups which may facilitate growth
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PVA Pet Care Plan
Market Opportunity
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Germany Market Opportunity
Pet Care Plan primary targets
Remaining market opportunity
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France Market Opportunity
Pet Care Plan primary targets
Remaining market opportunity
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Denmark Market Opportunity
Pet Care Plan primary targets
Remaining market opportunity
Addressable market analysis – the USA
• 3rd cooperation agreement signed in the region with Midwest Veterinary supplies.
• Midwest has over 12,000 client hospitals across 35 states
• Midwest deal expands PVG beyond South Eastern states to Mid West and California.
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USA Market Opportunity
Banfield VCA Market opportunity
Total small animal clinics –c26,500 (UK c4,800)
• Contracts signed in highlighted states
• Contracts signed with 101 hospitals with 228 FTVE.
• Launched 60 hospitals with 129 FTVE
• Headcount of 17 now working in US operation
Profit and Loss - revenues
• Strong revenue growth in all territories
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• Run rate revenues are measured by annualising the latest month’s revenue
• Run rate PPCP revenues of £2.6m based on annualising March 2017
- an increase of 36% of annualised revenues at March 2016
Period ended 31 March 2017 Revenues
£000s 2017 2016 % change
PPCP – UK 887 762 16%
PPCP – Europe 221 97 128%
PPCP – US 49 0 N/A
Total - continuing operation 1,157 859 35%
12 month extrapolated run rate March March
£000s 2017 2016
PPCP – UK 1,836 1620
PPCP – Europe 600 294
PPCP – US 168 -
Total - continuing operation 2,604 1,914
Profit and Loss – profits and EBITDA
• Significant people and operating cost investment in both Europe (£0.3m) and US (£0.8m) increasing operating loss
• Investment in IT development and finance team in UK to support expansion and development requirements
• Finance expense reduced following repayment of debt after veterinary practices business disposal
• Profit on discontinued operation in 2017 represents trading profit of Buying Group for first 6 months of financial year
• Anticipated net profit on disposal after tax of £4.7m which will be accounted for in 2nd half 2017
• 6 months to March 2016 includes £163k pre-disposal trading and £4,091k profit on disposal relating to veterinary practices business
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Period ended 31 March 2017 Profits
£000s 2017 2016%
change
PPCP – UK 246 160 54%
PPCP - Europe (502) (247) 103%
PPCP – US (889) (102) (772)%
Total - continuing operations operating profit (1,145) (189)
Central unallocated costs (857) (1,064)
Operating profit (2,002) (1,253)
Finance expense (67) (205)
Loss before and after tax from continuing operations (2,069) (1,458)
Profit on discontinued operations 321 4,644
Profit/(loss) attributable to equity holders (1,748) 3,186
EBITDA before central costs (1,084) (158)
EBITDA after central costs (1,941) (1,222)
Balance sheet
• Trade and other receivables reduced following receipt of escrow money from sales of veterinary practices business
• Net liabilities resulting from losses arising from overseas investment
• No bad debt
• Sale of Buying Group post period end will strengthen balance sheet position with £4.8m net proceeds
• Part of proceeds will be used to repay loan notes
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Period ended 31 March 2017
£000s 2017 2016
Non-current assets 401 146
Trade and other receivables 708 1,678
Trade and other payables (705) (597)
Net working capital 3 1,081
Cash 711 1,566
Debt (1,250) -
Net cash/(debt) (539) 1,566
Net assets held for resale 83 106
Deferred tax (10) (10)
Net assets (62) 2,889
Cash flow
• Significant investment in international expansion impacting EBITDA
• Ongoing capital investment in IT around £250k per annum
• Net disposal proceeds in H1 2017 and H1 2016 relate to veterinary practices business
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£000s 2017 2016
£'000 £'000
EBITDA after central costs (1,941) (1,222)
Net working capital movement (146) (388)
Investment in IT and equipment (137) (22)
Interest on loans and finance leases (67) (64)
Free cash flow (2,291) (1,696)
Net disposal proceeds 1,000 5,197
Discontinued activities 350 272
Issue of share capital 48 -
Movement in net cash/(debt) (893) 3,773
Opening net debt 354 (2,207)
Closing net debt (539) 1,566
Net debt made up of;
Cash 711 1,566
Debt (1,250) -
(539) 1,566
• PVG are creating a global market
• Sticky and diverse customer base
• Recurring revenue stream with compounding growth
• Bespoke scalable IT platform underpinning international operations
• No bad debt exposure
• An aggressive growth opportunity underpinned by cooperation agreements (Mid- West, Zoetis, MVS, VPI)
Business fundamentals
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PCP 100% compliance, higher sales
• Assuming 150,000 pets on plan
• Compliance for non PCP pets is approximately:
• 1.2 wormers per annum (full compliance 4)
• 3.9 flea/tick pipettes per annum (full compliance 12)
• 213% increase in product sales for every pet on plan
• PCP compliance rates are a clear benefit to wholesalers and manufacturers as well as ensuring best care for pets
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Normal PCP (full compliance)
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Loyal customer base – practices
• Over last 5 years 159 practices joined PPCP (each with multiple clinics), only 8 practices have left (excluding consolidation activity)
• Once the practice has joined this gives long term access to increase the number of Pets on plan for that practice
• Pet “churn” is low at long run rate of ~1.8% (detail in Appendix)
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Customer retention analysis
Leavers since PPCP start up *
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Number of practices left in the year
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% of total practices N/A N/A N/A 2.7% 1.4% 1.8%
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Loyal customer base – practices and pet owners
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Attrition - monthly contract cancellation percentage
• Graph shows average monthly attrition for pets that came on plan in that month
• Monthly churn of Pets on plan 1.8% -reflects a significant number of “Put to Sleep” animals
• Once established churn is very low. In first three months, churn is higher due to “cooling off” period. This is not shown as distorts long term analysis.