Company Overview
May 2020
Our business today
DCC is a leading international sales, marketing and support services group operating across four divisions
Revenue | Operating profit | |||
Locations | Employees | Market cap | £14.8bn | £494.3m |
20 | 13,200 | £5.9bn | ROCE | Net debt/EBITDA |
countries across | 16.5% | 0.1x | ||
3 continents | ||||
Profit by geography | Profit by division | ||
6% | 12% | ||
14% | |||
44% | Continental Europe | 13% | DCC LPG |
UK | 46% | DCC Retail & Oil | |
RoW | DCC Technology | ||
36% | Ireland | DCC Healthcare | |
29% | |||
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Proven track record of growth, development and value creation
North America
Operating Profit Growth | Dividend Growth | Free cashflow conversion | Total Shareholder Return |
26 year CAGR1 | 26 year CAGR | 26 years | 26 years |
14.5% | 14.0% | 101% | 5,238% |
1 On a continuing basis
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A consistent strategy since flotation, deploying a proven business model
Our strategic objective
To continue to build a growing, sustainable and cash generative business which consistently provides returns on capital employed well in excess of its cost of capital
Financial discipline | Creating and sustaining leading |
market positions | |
Development of our people
DCC's strategy has
delivered growth for
over
40 years
Extending our geographic footprint
Creating a culture of innovation | Continuously focusing | |||||
on operational excellence | ||||||
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DCC has a proven business model
Financial
- Disciplined capital allocation
- Focus on ROCE
- Culture of financial discipline
- Risk management
- Best practice in governance
Underpinned by our
core values
Operational
- Sales, marketing and distribution expertise
- Similar business model
- Strong supplier and customer relationships
- Integrating acquisitions and synergy generation
Strategic
- Consistent strategic direction
- Identifying and executing acquisitions
- Devolved management structure
- Experienced leadership team
- Talent development and retention
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Consolidating and compounding: The DCC way
2020
Extending our | Driving organic |
geographic footprint | growth |
Geographic presence: Europe, North America and Asia
Operating profit1: | ||||||||||||||
£494.3m | ||||||||||||||
494 | ||||||||||||||
461 | ||||||||||||||
383 | ||||||||||||||
1994 | 345 | |||||||||||||
Scaling presence | Executing bolt- | |||||||||||||
285 | ||||||||||||||
in adjacencies | ons in market | |||||||||||||
Geographic presence: | ||||||||||||||
UK & Ireland | 208 | |||||||||||||
176 | 189 | |||||||||||||
Operating profit1: | 170 | |||||||||||||
155 | ||||||||||||||
131 | 139 | |||||||||||||
£15.3m | ||||||||||||||
97 | ||||||||||||||
62 | 68 | 78 | ||||||||||||
54 | 61 | |||||||||||||
19 | 20 | 26 | 32 | 37 | 46 | 49 | ||||||||
15 | ||||||||||||||
16 |
1: Continuing operations
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Why diversity works for DCC
Significant operating profit growth across all divisions since 2008
Operating profit FY08 - FY20 (£'m) CAGR: 14.6% | |||||||||||||||
'08 - '20 CAGR | ROCE '20 | ||||||||||||||
500.0 | |||||||||||||||
450.0 | DCC Healthcare | +12.2% | 14.7% | ||||||||||||
400.0 | DCC Technology | +6.6% | 11.0% | ||||||||||||
350.0 | |||||||||||||||
300.0 | DCC Retail & Oil | +13.4% | 18.5% | ||||||||||||
250.0 | |||||||||||||||
200.0 | |||||||||||||||
150.0 | |||||||||||||||
100.0 | DCC LPG | +21.9% | 18.4% | ||||||||||||
50.0 | |||||||||||||||
0.0 | |||||||||||||||
2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
Organic and | Optionality in | Maintaining returns | Facilitates | Growing our | ||
geographic | ||||||
opportunity set in | ||||||
acquisitive growth | capital allocation | discipline | expansion across | |||
attractive markets | ||||||
the Group | ||||||
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Significant M&A and integration capability
40+ years M&A experience - proven track record
Acquisitions £'m (1994 - 2020)
3yr avg:
£410m
3yr avg:
£260m
3yr avg:
£118m
1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
- c. £410m average annual M&A spend over the last twelve months
- > c.280 acquisitions since flotation in 1994
- c.£3.3bn total acquisition spend in past 26 years
- Continue to successfully integrate and drive strong returns and organic growth
* ROCE on a continuing basis
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Platform for acquisitions with extensive integration experience
DCC builds innovative, partner focused businesses with scale
- DCC looks to capture value through related and adjacent markets
- Inorganic opportunities are used to build comprehensive businesses
Case study - creating a fully integrated Danish retail & oil business
DCC Energi A/S | Co-oil distribution | Exclusive Gulf | DCC-DLG | New |
headquarters in | ||||
established | with DLG | lubricants reseller | merger | |
Nærum | ||||
Oct 2009 | Feb 2010 | Feb 2012 | Nov 2016 | April 2019 | |
Aug 2009 | Jan 2010 | Dec 2010 | July 2015 | April 2017 |
Marine Gas Oil | Lubricants | Natural Gas | Take over of | Creation of aviation | |
Dansk Fuels A/S | partnership with Shell | ||||
Corporate action | Organic | Inorganic |
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Highly cash generative with strong and liquid balance sheet
26 Year | ||
1 April 1994 - 31 March 2020 | £'m | CAGR |
Operating profit | 4,199 | +13.7%(1) |
Decrease in working capital | 409 | |
Depreciation and other | 1,070 | |
Operating cash flow | 5,678 | +13.2% |
Net capex | (1,438) | |
Net impact of IFRS16 | (6) | |
Free cash flow | 4,234 | +13.0% |
Interest and tax | (918) | |
Free cash flow after interest and tax | 3,316 | +13.1% |
Acquisitions | (3,254) | |
Disposals / exceptional items | 320 | |
Dividends | (1,121) | |
Share issues / buybacks | 768 | |
Net cash inflow | 29 | |
Translation and other | (100) | |
Opening net debt | (2) | |
IFRS 16 opening transition adjustment | (294) | |
Closing net debt | (367) | |
Closing net debt excl. lease creditors | (60) | |
Total cash | 1,685 |
Conservative approach
to financial and risk
management has been
a key driver of DCC's
success
Low levels of risk
Strong cash flow
underpins our business
model
26 year free cash flow
conversion
of [101]% and CAGR
of [13]%
DCC benefits from a
strong and liquid
balance sheet
Acquisition
flexibility
Strong
counterparty
Underpins
organic
investment
9 1 CAGR stated on a reported basis
Track record of consistent growth
Operating profit (£'m)1 | 26 year CAGR1 | Dividend (pence) |
26 year CAGR
14.5% | 14.0% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
145 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
494 | 138 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
461 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
123 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
383 | 112 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
345 | 97 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
285 | 85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | 68 | 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
189 208 | 60 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
176 | 52 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
170 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
155 | 139 | 40 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
131 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 26 | 32 | 37 | 46 | 49 | 54 | 61 | 62 | 68 | 78 | 97 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 23 | 25 | 29 | |||||
1994 | 2020 | 1994 | 2020 |
Free cash flow conversion (%) 26 year conversion
Total Shareholder Return (26 Years)
160.0%
140.0%
120.0%
100.0%
101.0%
5238% |
80.0%
60.0%
40.0%
20.0%
0.0%
1994 | 2020 |
1 On a continuing basis
358% | 390% | |||
DCC | FTSE 100 | FTSE 350 |
Source: Datastream - as at 31 March 2020
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Divisional introduction
DCC LPG | DCC Retail & Oil | DCC Technology | DCC Healthcare | |||||||||||||||||||
46% of operating profit; ROCE: 18.4% | 29% of operating profit; ROCE: 18.5% | 13% of operating profit; ROCE: 11.0% | 12% of operating profit; ROCE: 14.7% | |||||||||||||||||||
Volume (tonnes) | Operating profit | Volume (litres) | Operating profit | Revenue | Operating profit | Revenue | Operating profit | |||||||||||||||
2.2m | £228.2m | 11.6bn | £140.3m | £3.9bn | £65.3m | £578.1m | £60.5m | |||||||||||||||
Volume by Segment | Volume by Segment | Revenue by Product | Revenue by sector | |||||||||||||||||||
3% | C&I | 16% | C&I | 5% | ||
Retail | 3% | 18% | ||||
21% | 3% | |||||
Retail | 3% | 37% Domestic | 5% | |||
7% | ||||||
2% | 4% | Agricultural | ||||
Domestic | 5% | |||||
Marine | 12% | 18% | ||||
74% | Agricultural & | Other | 14% | |||
35% | 15% | |||||
other | ||||||
Consumer electronics | Healthcare | ||
Audio visual | |||
Computing | providers | ||
Communications & Mobile | |||
Networking, security & components | 43% | H&B brand | |
Server & Storage | |||
Gaming hardware | 57% | owners | |
Services | |||
Consumables
Other
Customers Countries Customers Countries Customers Countries Customers Countries
740K | 10 | 900K | 8 | 50K+ | 19 | 30K+ | 4 | ||||||||||||||
Trucks | Employees | Trucks | Employees | Brands | Employees | SKUs | Employees | ||||||||||||||
1,400 | 2,900 | 1,000 | 3,500 | 2,400 | 4,205 | 42K+ | 2,600 | ||||||||||||||
Facilities | Retail Sites | Logistic Capacity | CMO facilities | ||||||||||||||||||
212 | 1,085 | 230K m2 | 6 |
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Our business strategies for growth
DCC LPG
DCC Retail & Oil
DCC Technology
DCC Healthcare
DCC LPG's vision is to be a global leader in the sales, marketing and distribution of LPG, natural gas and electricity and related products and services to energy consumers
DCC Retail & Oil's vision is to be a global leader in the sales, marketing and distribution of fuels and related products and provision of services to energy consumers
DCC Technology's vision is to become a leading specialist technology distribution and supply chain services business, delivering an industry- leading service offering, whilst delivering consistent long-term profit growth and industry-leading returns on capital employed
DCC Healthcare's vision is to build a substantial healthcare business, focused on the sales, marketing and distribution of medical devices and pharmaceuticals and the provision of contract manufacturing and related services for the health and beauty sector
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Our Business: by Division
DCC LPG
DCC LPG
A leading liquefied petroleum gas ("LPG") sales and marketing business, with a developing business in the retailing of natural gas and electricity
FY20 volumes by geography
11% | Britain |
FY2020 | |
Volumes (tonnes) | 2.2mT* |
Operating profit | £228.2m |
ROCE | 18.4% |
Employees | 2,900 |
FY20 volumes by customer segment
3%
15% |
21%
Commercial & Industrial
10% | Ireland | Retail | |
2% | Domestic | ||
Continental | |||
Europe | 74% | Agricultural & other | |
64% | RoW | ||
- Volumes include natural gas sold based on the equivalent calorific value of LPG measured in tonnes: 1MwH of natural gas = 0.076 tonnes of LPG
1 tonne of LPG = 1,969 litres of LPG
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DCC LPG
Recurring revenue, cash generative & high ROCE business
LPG is used by a | Global business with significant market | |
varied customer base | presence in ten countries in Europe, Asia and | |
for: | the US | |
• | Heating | |
• | Cooking | Over 40 years industry experience |
• | Hot water | |
• | Industrial / | Partner of choice for oil majors in asset |
agricultural | divestment | |
processes | ||
• | Transport | Developing position in adjacencies of natural |
including fork lift | gas, electricity and industrial and refrigerant | |
truck operators | gases - leveraging our sales and marketing | |
• | Propellants | capability under established gas brands |
Platforms for further growth have been established in the German, Asian and US markets.
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DCC LPG
Operating model
DCC LPG Value Chain | Our major brands |
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DCC LPG
Business of scale with global presence
Large Market Positions: #2 France, Britain and Ireland; #1 Norway, Sweden, Netherlands
Volumes | Customers | Trucks | Employees | Facilities |
Business Statistics FY 2020: 2.2m | 740k* | 1,400 | 2,900 | 212 |
Tonnes | ||||
*excludes consumers who purchase our cylinders from retailers |
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DCC LPG
LPG delivering growth
Driving growth
Current
capabilities
Driving organic | Scaling presence | Extending our | ||
growth | in adjacencies | footprint | ||
Growing | Natural gas & electricity | Bolt-on acquisitions | ||
market share | in existing markets | |||
Oil2LPG conversions | Medical gas & refrigerants | Entering new | ||
Renewables - | geographies | |||
Innovation & | ||||
biomass / pellets | ||||
digitalisation | ||||
LNG | ||||
New applications | ||||
for LPG | Bio LPG | |||
New divisional | Devolved, | Established market | Common global |
management | empowered and | position in 10 | LPG ecosystem |
structure | incentivised | countries | |
implemented | management teams | ||
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DCC Retail & Oil
DCC Retail & Oil
A leader in the sales, marketing and retailing of transport and commercial fuels, heating oils and related products and services
FY20 volumes by geography
5% | ||
Britain | ||
49% | Cont. Europe | |
46% | ||
Ireland | ||
FY2020 | |
Volumes (litres) | 11.632bn |
Operating profit | £140.3m |
ROCE | 18.5% |
Employees | 3,500 |
FY20 volumes by customer segment
16% | Commercial & Industrial | |
3% | 37% | Retail |
4% | Domestic | |
5% | ||
Agricultural | ||
Marine | ||
35% | Other | |
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DCC Retail & Oil
Recurring revenue, cash generative & high ROCE business
Retail stations and fuel cards for consumers and commercial customers
Oil distribution for:
- Transport
- Heating
- Industrial / agricultural processes
Developing position in adjacencies such as:
- Aviation
- Marine fuels
- Lubricants
Established market position in eight countries with a platform to grow the business across Europe
Over 30 years industry experience
Consolidator of fragmented markets
Partner of choice for oil majors in asset divestment
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DCC Retail & Oil
Operating model
DCC Retail & Oil Value Chain | Our brands |
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DCC Retail & Oil
A business of scale
Business Statistics FY 2020
Volumes | Customers | Trucks Employees | Facilities |
11.6bn | 0.9m* | 1,000 3,500 | 300 |
Litres |
Retail petrol sites operated (1,085) / supplied (2,535† )
Britain France Sweden Norway
860 464 356 244
Austria Ireland Denmark
283 98 230
*Excludes retail service station customers / consumers †Includes sites operated
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DCC Retail & Oil
Retail & Oil delivering growth
Driving growth
Current
capabilities
Driving organic | Scaling presence | Extending our | ||
growth | in adjacencies | footprint | ||
Differentiated fuels strategy | Lubricants | Development of retail | ||
network | ||||
Penetration of premium | Aviation | |||
fuels | Fuel card services | |||
Adblue | ||||
Sales excellence | Geographic expansion | |||
Loyalty - Club Certas | ||||
Digitalisation | ||||
Non-fuel partnerships | ||||
New divisional | Devolved, | Established market | Low cost to |
management | empowered and | position in 8 | serve model |
structure | incentivised | countries | |
implemented | management teams | ||
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DCC Technology
DCC Technology
- leading route-to-market and supply chain partner for global technology brands
FY2020 | |
Revenue | £3,913m |
Operating profit | £65.3m |
ROCE | 11.0% |
Employees | 4,205 |
DCC Technology operates in 19 countries, across the consumer, B2B and enterprise
markets and principally under the brand.
2,400 | 50,000+ | Consumer, |
retail, etail, | ||
industry | B2B and | |
reseller and | Enterprise | |
leading | ||
telco | end-users | |
suppliers | ||
customers | ||
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DCC Technology
At a glance
The obvious partner for a new supplier to access
Retail and B2B markets
DCC Technology delivers an industry-leading and innovative range of services and value-add solutions that enable our partners to access existing and new sales channels in the most effective manner possible
Key Facts | Our Business | Key Partners | |||||
Product Focus | Market Insight | ||||||
50,000+ | |||||||
and Breadth | and Alignment | ||||||
reseller & retailer | Datacentre, Security, | Public Sector, | |||||
customers | IT, Mobile, AV | Business, | |||||
Home, | Smart Home, | ||||||
Supplies | Cloud | ||||||
>230,000m2 | |||||||
logistics capacity | |||||||
Channel | Value Added | ||||||
Specialists in Consumer, | Specialists | Services | |||||
B2B and Enterprise | Business, Retail, | Logistics, Supply Chain, | |||||
Mobile, Supplies | Marketing, Retail, Digital, | ||||||
markets | |||||||
Technical Installation & | |||||||
Support, Refurb |
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DCC Technology
An integral part of the Tech supply chain
Creating value for customers and suppliers
• Proactive sales and marketing approach to a very broad customer base across a number of countries
• Excellent supplier portfolio, dealing with small to large technology brand owners
• Agile, responsive and service-focused approach to
bringing our suppliers' products to market
• Cost-effective and tailored solutions for customers and suppliers
• Technical, supply chain and value-added services expertise
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DCC Technology
Significant footprint across Europe, North America & Asia
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DCC Technology
Technology delivering growth
Driving growth
Driving organic | Scaling presence | Extending our | ||
growth | in adjacencies | footprint | ||
Differentiating through | Strong specialist capabilities | Enhanced capabilities | ||
customer value | in Retail, B2B, Pro AV, | in existing geographies | ||
Providing market access | Mobile, Enterprise | Geographic expansion | ||
for brands | ||||
Developing expertise | ||||
Global supply | ||||
Simplifying complex | in Security, Services, | |||
chain capability | ||||
supply chain | Software & Cloud | |||
Enabling the Retail Revolution | Developing | |||
Developing focused | complementary | |||
sales expertise | own-brand offering | |||
White label proposition | ||||
Divisional | Devolved, empowered | Central infrastructure | Direct presence | |
Current | delivering business | in 19 countries, | ||
management | and incentivised | |||
capabilities | intelligence and | capability to | ||
structure | management teams | |||
operational efficiency | serve globally | |||
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DCC Healthcare
DCC Healthcare
A leading healthcare business, providing products and services to healthcare providers and health & beauty brand owners
Revenue by sector*
Healthcare providers
45%
55% | Brand Owners |
*Adjusted to reflect disposal of Kent Pharma
FY2020 | |
Revenue* | £549.5m |
Operating profit* | £56.0m |
ROCE | 14.7% |
Employees | 2,600 |
Revenue by geography*
29% | UK |
Ireland
52% | ROW |
19% |
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DCC Healthcare
DCC Vital - What we do
Our Suppliers
Third party brand owners | Own brand/licence products |
Our Services
Sales marketing | Portfolio | Procurement | Vendor | Supply chain |
and distribution | development | Management | management | |
and logistic | ||||
services |
Our Customers
DCC Vital
Sales, marketing and distribution of own and third party medical and pharmaceutical products to healthcare providers across all sectors of the healthcare market in the UK & Ireland
FY20 Gross profit by product:
38%
Own Brand
62%
Third Party
FY20 Gross profit by channel:
30% | Hospitals |
Hospitals | Primary Care | Fragmented healthcare |
(GPs and Community Care) | settings |
50%
20%
Retail / wholesale
Primary care
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DCC Healthcare
DCC Vital - Product focus
Own brands
Exclusive Partners
- Clinical diagnostics / life sciences companies
- Medical device companies
- Pharma companies
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DCC Healthcare
DCC Health & Beauty Solutions - What we do
Our Services
Product development, contract manufacturing and packing of health & beauty products
DCC Health & Beauty Solutions
Builds long term partnerships with international Health & Beauty brand owners, providing specialist services including NPD, formulation, manufacturing and packaging in Europe and the US
- Eight high quality facilities producing tablets, capsules, soft gels, powders, creams, liquids
- Packaging formats: pots, blisters, sachets, stickpacks, tubes, bottles, pumps, sprays
A selection of brands we support:
Our Customers
Health & | Specialist | Direct sales/ |
beauty brand | health & | mail order |
owners | beauty | companies |
retailers |
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DCC Healthcare
DCC Health & Beauty - Product categories
Suncare and
Self Tanning
Haircare
Men's Health
& Grooming
OTC and
Medical Devices
Facial and
Bodycare
Sport, Diet
and Active
Lifestyles
Nutritional | Stay Well / |
Enhance | |
Healthcare Cream & Liquids | Health |
Beauty | |
Women's | |
Health |
Baby and
Children's Health
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DCC Healthcare
Healthcare delivering growth
Driving growth
Current
capabilities
Driving organic | Scaling presence | Extending our | ||
growth | in adjacencies | footprint | ||
Positive market dynamics | New Health & Beauty | Bolt-ons in existing markets | ||
product formats | ||||
Innovation | Geographic expansion | |||
Expanding own-brand | ||||
Capacity investment in | medical products portfolio | Scaling our US position | ||
DCC Health & Beauty | ||||
Solutions | Fragmented healthcare | |||
settings | ||||
Devolved, empowered | High quality | Comprehensive | |
infrastructure and | Established market | ||
and incentivised | sales channel | ||
strong regulatory | positions | ||
management teams | coverage | ||
capability | |||
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