Fevertree Drinks
plc
FY22 Preliminary Results
22nd March 2023
AGENDA
1 | Fever-Tree's blueprint for long-term success |
2 | FY22 Financial Review |
3 | Sustainability |
4 | Strategic update |
5 | Summary |
FY22 I Delivering growth, mitigating headwinds and investing in the opportunity
Good revenue growth | Significant cost headwinds | Continue to invest in the brand |
International markets driving top line growth
- Group revenue growth 11%
- Achieved c.18% growth across our international markets: US, Europe & RoW
- Good distribution gains across markets giving us confidence going into 2023 and beyond
- Entered significant adjacent categories; soft drinks and cocktail mixers, to drive further revenue growth
Significant cost headwinds
impacted gross margin
- Mitigating actions only partly offset significant cost headwinds
- Price increases across markets
- The business is focused on a range of initiatives, which alongside a more positive macro backdrop, will drive margin improvements from 2024 and beyond
Confidence in the long-term opportunity drives investment
- Co-investingwith customers and spirit brands on a range of marketing activities, increasing brand awareness
- Investing in our team; upweighting senior hires
- Continue to innovate to cater to an increasing number of spirit and soft drink occasions as part of the substantial global opportunity
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Fever-Tree's strategic blueprint is creating success across global markets
Innovation-led brand, with a focus on quality
- The brand has revitalised the category through innovation
- Unrivalled focus on sourcing the best quality ingredients from around the world that excite the consumer
Strong relationships and brand reputation
- Endorsements from the world's best bar tenders, mixologists and chefs
- Stimulate the category alongside retail & spirit partners
- Exclusive deal with Southern Glazer's in the US
Premium position
- Clearly differentiated products with demonstrated pricing power in stronghold markets
- Enhance category margins: Our customers benefit, making us highly desirable by creating a virtuous circle for the brand and the trade
Strong cash flow
- Enables investment into new growth markets
- Allows us to focus on consumer recruitment & lifetime customer value
- Optionality to return cash to shareholders alongside growing the business
Fever-Tree is at the centre of supportive macro trends
Spirits are taking share | Spirit growth is being | |
from beer and wine | ||
driven at the premium end | ||
Consumers are | ||
searching for quality | Health & wellness (no and low | |
ingredients | ||
and drinking less but better) | ||
increasingly important | ||
Easy-to- | ||
make | ||
cocktails | Provenance | |
are | ||
and craft | ||
trending | ||
are being | ||
sought out | ||
Consumers want to | more and | |
try new drinks and | more |
treat themselves
Growing interest in long mixed drinks, fuelled by spirit companies, retailers and the On-Trade
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Delivering against the blueprint
Fever-Tree has driven growth of UK mixers and become the
market leader of a larger category1
+92% | ||||
800 | 784 | 60% | ||
(£m) | 50% | |||
600 | Market share | |||
Mixer market size | 40% | |||
400 | 408 | 30% | ||
20% | ||||
200 | ||||
10% | ||||
0 | 0% |
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Mixer category size | Fever-Tree market share | |||||||
Schweppes market share | Other premium brands | |||||||
- First mover advantage
- Premium price point
- Strong relationships with customers and spirit partners
- Ability to extend into adjacent categories; Adult Soft Drinks & cocktail mixers
1IRI & CGA MAT to 31/12, 2014-2022;2Kantar 2022; 3CGA 2022
Building blocks in place in the US
- Market leading shares in Ginger Beer and Tonic
- Driving growth of Sparkling with Pink Grapefruit and Lime & Yuzu
- Strong relationships with customers supporting distribution gains across both channels
✓ Southern Glazer's partnership is a key competitive advantage
- Localising US production to reduce reliance on freight and set us up to drive growth
- Delivering economies of scale over time
- Launching Fever-Tree cocktail mixers Q2 2023
- Large, growing, premiumising category
- First mover advantage
- Premium price point
- Exclusive premium mixer partner of Southern Glazer's
- Strong distribution footprint established with significant whitespace ahead
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