01.06.2016
CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA DE0005403901
DGAP-News: CEWE with seventh consecutive dividend increase
DGAP-News: CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA / Key word(s): AGM/EGM
CEWE with seventh consecutive dividend increase
01.06.2016 / 14:24
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CEWE with seventh consecutive dividend increase
- Annual General Meeting resolves on dividend of EUR 1.60 per share
- Dividend yield at 2.9 %
- Earning power to continue to increase in 2016
- Dr. Hollander: "CEWE is on track, combining a dividend increase and
sound growth."
Oldenburg, 1 June 2016. The regular Annual General Meeting of CEWE Stiftung
& Co. KGaA (SDAX, ISIN: DE 0005403901) approved all the agenda items
proposed by the management in Oldenburg today. The attendance rate was 61.0
%. The dividend rise is 5 eurocents a share, to 1.60 euros per share - the
seventh dividend increase in succession. The dividend yield is 2.9 % on the
basis of the 2015 year-end share price (54.61 euros). On the basis of the
share price at the end of 2014 (51.51 euros), the CEWE share price grew by
3.10 euros, an increase of 6.0 %, in the period up to the end of December
2015. On the inclusion of the dividend paid out for the business year of
2014, the yield for CEWE shareholders was thus 9.0 % in 2015. With the
dividend of 1.60 euros a share now resolved by the Annual General Meeting,
the shareholders are also getting an additional dividend yield of 2.9 % on
the basis of the 2015 year-end share price. Over and above this, the CEWE
share price has already risen by as much as 10.5 % in the current year (as
at 31 May 2016).
CEWE combines a steady dividend increase and sound growth
CEWE is thus confirming its position as a high-yield, sound growth share.
CEWE invests simultaneously in the brand and the brand product portfolio,
in innovations to existing business segments and in growth areas with high
potential, such as commercial online printing. "For many years now, our
shareholders have been able to rely on us staying on track: we want to
consistently increase our dividend in absolute terms, guarantee sound
financing and a sound capital ratio, and more than anything else, grow
profitably in attractive business segments," Dr. Rolf Hollander, Chairman
of the Board of Management of CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA, points out in a
talk at the Annual General Meeting. The company has given itself sufficient
scope, not only to invest and increase its dividend, but also to allow
capital to flow back to the shareholders in the form of the share
repurchase which has been in operation since 18 May 2016.
Targets for 2016: earning power and dividends to continue to increase
In the Annual General Meeting, the Board of Management confirmed its aim of
continuing to increase income and dividends in the current business year on
the basis of the positive development in the first quarter of the year and
the expectation of a further rise in the seasonal peak in the fourth
quarter. In 2016, consolidated turnover is to increase slightly from 554.2
million euros in 2015 to an amount in the range of 555 to 575 million
euros. In this case turnover in photofinishing is to remain approximately
stable or increase slightly, the business segment of retailing is to show
turnover to be about constant and commercial online printing to continue to
increase its turnover. After 77.8 million euros in 2015 (+ 10.4 %), the
management believes that commercial online printing can achieve turnover of
around 86 million euros in 2016. At the same time CEWE is confirming its
target of generating a positive contribution to earnings in 2016 in online
printing. The Group EBIT is to be in a corridor of 38 to 44 million euros,
EBT is to be in the range of 37 to 43 million euros, and after tax earnings
between 25 and 29 million euros. This is equivalent to an increase in the
operative EBIT target corridor of around six million euros in comparison to
the targets for 2015. At the same time the management confirmed its aim of
raising dividends in the coming years as well.
Should you have any queries, please contact:
CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA, Axel Weber (Investor Relations)
Tel.: 0441 / 404 - 2288, Fax: 0441 / 404 - 421, Email: [email protected]
Internet: cewe-photobook.com , cewe.de , cewe-fotobuch.de , cewe-print.de
,
viaprinto.de , saxoprint.de
The CEWE apps are all available in the app stores: CEWE PHOTO WORLD, CEWE
POSTCARD, CEWE SERVICE and other photo apps, and the CEWE Investor
Relations app for iPad(c) or android tablets, with annual reports and
quarterly reports, presentations and sustainability reports.
Financial schedule:
11 August 2016 Publication of the mid-year report as at Q2 2016
19-21 September 2016 Berenberg & Goldman Sachs German Corporate Conference
20-22 September 2016 Baader Investment Conference, Munich
10 November 2016 Publication of the interim report as at Q3 2016
21-22 November 2016 German Equity Forum, Frankfurt
About CEWE: The innovative photo and online print service company CEWE,
with twelve highly-technical production operations and a staff of around
3,400 employees in 24 European countries, is both market and technological
leader. In 2015 CEWE delivered around 2.2 billion prints, 6.0 million
copies of the CEWE PHOTO BOOK and photo gift articles to around 25,000
retail partners to generate consolidated turnover of 554.2 million euros.
CEWE is continuously generating new impulses in the photographic industry
with innovations for people who enjoy taking photos. In the new business
segment of commercial online printing, printed material for businesses is
marketed through the sales platforms CEWE-PRINT.de, Saxoprint und
Viaprinto. Founded in 1961 by Senator h. c. Heinz Neumüller, CEWE was taken
to the stock exchange by Hubert Rothärmel in 1993. CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA
is listed on the SDAX.
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Language: English
Company: CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA
Meerweg 30-32
26133 Oldenburg
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)441 40 4-1
Fax: +49 (0)441 40 4-42 1
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.cewe.de
ISIN: DE0005403901
WKN: 540390
Indices: SDAX
Listed: Regulated Market in Berlin, Frankfurt (Prime Standard);
Regulated Unofficial Market in Dusseldorf, Hamburg,
Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart
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