Annual Financial Report

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Coats Group PLC
10 March 2022
 

COATS GROUP PLC

Annual Financial Report 2021

Coats Group plc ('Coats' or the 'Company') has today submitted to the Financial Conduct Authority's national storage mechanism its Annual Financial Report for the year ended 31 December 2021 ('Annual Report 2021'), as required by UK Listing Rule 9.6.1.

The Annual Report 2021 is available from the Company's website, www.coats.com/ar2021 , and will also be available for viewing at the Financial Conduct Authority's national storage mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

A hard copy version of the Annual Report 2021, the Notice of the 2022 Annual General Meeting and other ancillary shareholder documents ('AGM documents') will be sent to those shareholders who have elected to receive paper communications on or about 25 March 2022.  The AGM documents will be made available on the Company's website ( www.coats.com/agm2022 ) to those shareholders who have not elected to receive paper communications, and will also be available for viewing at the Financial Conduct Authority's national storage mechanism at the link above, on the same date.

This announcement also contains as appendices additional information for the purposes of compliance with Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rule 6.3.5, including principal risk factors, a responsibility statement and details of related party transactions. This information is extracted, in full unedited text, from the Annual Report 2021. The Preliminary Announcement released on 3 March 2022 contained a condensed set of financial statements together with extracts of the Company's management report, and is also available to view on the Company's website www.coats.com/Investors . These announcements should be read in conjunction with and are not a substitute for reading the full Annual Report 2021. All page and note references in the extracted information below refer to page and note references in the Annual Report 2021.

Stuart Morgan

Company Secretary

10 March 2022

 

 

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About Coats Group plc

Coats is the world's leading industrial thread company. At home in some 50 countries, Coats has a workforce of over 18,000 people across six continents. Revenues in 2021 were US$1.5bn. Coats provides complementary and value-adding products, services and software solutions to the apparel and footwear industries. It also applies innovative techniques to develop high technology performance materials threads, yarns, fabrics and composites in areas like personal protection, telecoms, energy, transportation, and household and recreation. Headquartered in the UK, Coats is a constituent of the FTSE 250 and FTSE4Good Index Series. It is a participant in the UN Global Compact, a member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has approved short term Science Based Targets to 2030 and is committed to developing a long-term target to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, the highest level of ambition on climate change under the Science Based Target initiative. The pioneering history and innovative culture of Coats enable the delivery of its purpose to connect talent, textiles and technology to make a better and more sustainable world. For further information go to www.coats.com.

 

Appendix

Principal Risks overview

A description of the principal risks the company faces is extracted from pages 46 to 58 of the Annual Report 2021.

 

Throughout the year, the Board has kept each of the principal risks under review with support from the GET and the GRMC. The Board also undertook a comprehensive assessment of the principal risks facing the Group, along with the current levels of risk tolerance for each of those risks. Due to the ever- changing global risk environment, the following risks have been updated since the last report:

 

CHANGE OF RISK DESCRIPTION

 

1.  Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) scale ambition risk has been re-named M&A programme ambition risk, in light of the Group's increasing ambition in the scale of its acquisition programme and its ability to source, satisfactorily acquire and integrate suitable targets.

2.  Talent and capability risk has been changed to: Risk of failure to attract, retain and develop talent and capability, given business changes, growth in new areas and labour availability challenges.

3.  Economic and geopolitical risk arising from political, economic and demand uncertainty - across both key Asian and developed markets - including risk to free trade conventions has been changed to: Economic and geopolitical risk arising from political, economic and demand uncertainty - across both key Asian and developed markets - including risk to free trade conventions as well as global inflationary pressures.

4.  Environmental non-performance risk given changing standards and increasing scrutiny resulting in disruption of existing business, fines and/ or reputational damage has been changed to: Environmental non-performance risk given changing standards, increasing scrutiny, customer and investor demands and expectations and scale of Group's own self-imposed standards and ambitions, creating commercial, financial and reputational risks as well as opportunities.

 

PROMOTED

Risk of supplier non-performance and/or unavailability and/or price increases of raw materials, labour and freight is promoted to being a principal risk with an emphasis on the freight/logistical challenges element given, in particular, the widespread freight and logistical challenges. Consequently the risk trend for this risk has also increased from stable to increasing.

 

DEMOTED

Pensions risk has been demoted from a principal risk to a key risk, given that the latest valuation has been completed and signed off with no amendment in deficit recovery payments and with additional robust hedging strategies in place. See page 58 for more information.

 

FROM STABLE TO INCREASING

Risk of failure to attract, retain and develop talent and capability trend has increased from stable to increasing, in light of the heightened labour availability challenges in various parts of the world.

 

FROM INCREASING TO STABLE

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) programme ambition risk trend has decreased from increasing to stable, in light of the robust process being followed under the regular oversight of the Board.

 

FROM INCREASING TO STABLE

Risk of ever-increasing customer expectations and the Group's continuing ability to meet and exceed those expectations as part of its strategic growth ambitions has decreased from increasing to stable, due to the very close ongoing attention and actions taken by the management team under the regular oversight of the Board.

 

FROM INCREASING TO STABLE

The risk trend for Health & Safety has decreased from increasing to stable, in light of the actions taken by the Executive team and the pattern of the various metrics presented to the Board regularly throughout 2021.

 

 

Our principal risks, along with a summary of the measures we have put in place to manage and mitigate them, are set out in the table below. As stated above, the Board will continue to keep these principal risks, as well as the appropriateness of this list and the constantly changing broader risk environment, under ongoing review.

 

Principalrisk

Risktrend

Action/mitigation

1. Strategic

 

M&A programme ambition risk in light of the Group's increasing ambition in the scale of its acquisition programme and its ability to source, satisfactorily acquire and integrate suitable targets.

Stable

Risk of ever-increasing customer expectations and the Group's continuing ability to meet and exceed those expectations as part of its strategic growth ambitions.

Stable

Risk of failure to attract, retain and develop talent and capability given business changes, growth in new areas and labour availability challenges.

Increasing

2. External

 

Economic and geopolitical risk arising from political, economic and demand uncertainty - across both key Asian and developed markets - including risk to free trade conventions as well as global inflationary pressures.

Increasing

Cyber risk

Risk of cyber incidents leading to corruption of applications, critical IT infrastructure, compromised networks, operational technology and/or loss of data.

Stable

Climate change risk arising from either (i) the impact of failing to sufficiently address the need to decarbonise the Company's operations and reduce emissions, leading principally to commercial and reputational risks and the financial risk of emissions taxes or other legislative changes, or (ii) the physical impact of climate change on the Company's operations and business model, and that of its customers in the textile supply chain.

Increasing

Risk of supplier non-performance, unavailability and/or price increases of raw materials, labour and freight and/or logistical challenges causing major disruption to Coats' supply chain.

Increasing

Environmental non performance risk given changing standards, increasing scrutiny, customer and investor demands and expectations and scale of Group's own self-imposed standards and ambitions, creating commercial, financial and reputational risks as well as opportunities.

 

Stable

3. Operational

 

Health and safety risk

of (i) safety incident(s) leading to injury or fatality involving our employees or other interested parties such as contractors, visitors, onsite suppliers etc. along with potential resulting prosecution, financial costs, business disruption and/or reputational damage; and/or (ii) physical and mental health issues, including as a result of the pandemic, impacting wellbeing, engagement, productivity and talent retention.

Stable

Bribery and anti-competitive

behaviour risk of breach of anti- corruption law or competition law, resulting in material fine and/or reputational damage.

Stable

4. Legacy risks

 

Lower Passaic River legacy

environmental matter

Detail of the Lower Passaic River legacy environmental matter can be found in note 28 on page 173.

Stable

 

Responsibility statement

The following responsibility statement is repeated here solely for the purpose of complying with Disclosure and Transparency Rule 6.3.5. This statement relates to and is extracted from page 95 of the Annual Report 2021. Responsibility is for the full Annual Report 2021 and not the extracted information presented in this announcement or the Preliminary Announcement released on 3 March 2022.

 

We confirm that to the best of our knowledge:

·

the financial statements, prepared in accordance with the relevant financial reporting framework, give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the Company and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole;

·

the Strategic Report includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the Company and the undertakings included in the consolidation taken as a whole, together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties that they face; and

·

the Annual Report and financial statements, taken as a whole, are fair, balanced and understandable and provide the information necessary for shareholders to assess the Company's position, performance, business model and strategy.

This responsibility statement was approved by the Board of Directors on 2 March 2022

 

Related party transactions

A description of the related party transactions of the Company is extracted from page 176 of the Annual Report 2021:

 

Remuneration of key management personnel

 

The Group Executive Team are deemed to be the key management personnel of the Group. The remuneration of the Group Executive Team, is set out below in aggregate for each of the categories specified in IAS 24 Related Party Disclosures. Further information regarding the remuneration of individual directors is provided on pages 96 to 113 in the audited part of the Directors' Remuneration Report.

Year ended 31 December

2021

US$m

2020

US$m

Short-termemployeebenefits

10.4

6.0

Sharebasedpayments

1.6

0.7


12.0

6.7

Trading transactions

Transactions between the Company and its subsidiaries, which are related parties, have been eliminated on consolidation and are not disclosed in this note. Transactions between the Group and its joint ventures are disclosed below.

During the year, Group companies entered into the following transactions with related parties who are not members of the Group:


Saleofgoods

Purchaseofgoods

 


2021

US$m

2020

US$m

2021

US$m

2020

US$m


Jointventures

2.7

5.9

61.1

45.7


 

Amounts owing by / (to) joint ventures at the year end are disclosed in notes 19 and 21. All transactions with joint ventures are at an arm's length and payment terms are consistent with normal trading terms with third parties.

 

 

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