METSÄ BOARD Annual review 2023
2. Profitability ■ 2.1 Segment information
■ 2.2 Sales
Business operations and value creation 2 This is Metsä Board 4 CEO’s review 6
Geographical distribution of sales
Accounting principles Metsä Board’s sales are mainly generated from the sale of forest industry goods, such as the sale of folding boxboard and white kraftliners to branded product manufacturers, packaging proces- sors and wholesalers, as well as the sale of pulp to manufacturers of cardboard, tissue, printing and specialty papers. Performance obligations arising from the Group’s sales contracts are mainly order-driven customer deliveries related to the sale of forest industry goods. Services mostly have an ancillary role in the Group’s business operations, or they complement deliveries of goods. The transaction price is the amount that the Group expects to receive in exchange for a fulfilled performance obligation. This amount, less sales-based value added taxes and sales taxes, is presented as the Group’s sales. The prices received by the Group are divided into a fixed part and a variable part. The variable part consists of various discounts based on, among other things, payment terms and purchased quantities, and is allocated by the Group as deductions from sales revenue in line with estimates of the extent of the discount the customer is deemed to be entitled to. The Group’s sales contracts mostly include obligations solely related to deliveries of goods, to which the allocation of the trans- action price is uncomplicated. The terms of payment applied in the Group’s sales invoicing vary to some degree geographically and in different business areas, but the term of payment provided is nonetheless always clearly less than a year, when the financing component does not need to be separated. The Group recognises revenue from the sale of goods in the period during which the control of the delivered products passes to the customer, i.e. when the risks and benefits related to the sold products transfer to the customer. Services are recognised as income over time. Control to products transfers at the point of time when the products have been delivered in accordance with the agreed term of delivery. The Incoterms 2010 delivery terms most commonly applied by the Group and the corresponding times of sales income recognition are: D terms: Delivery of goods to the buyer at the agreed destina- tion at the agreed time C terms: Handing over the goods to be transported to the agreed destination by a carrier arranged for by the seller F terms: Handing over the goods to a carrier arranged for by the buyer The Group sees geographical distribution of sales as describing best the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of sales revenue. Sales by geographical regions is presented below based on the location of customers.
EUR million
2023 148.9 136.0 82.3 56.2 89.8 106.1
2022 209.8 174.6 108.6 137.5 99.5 117.3 41.9 112.0 104.4 121.4
Germany
Italy
Accounting principles The Corporate Management Team is the chief operational decision-maker monitoring business operations performance based on the operating segments. Metsä Board’s business operations consist solely of folding boxboard, fresh fibre linerboard and market pulp businesses. Metsä Board reports on its financial performance in one reporting segment. Geographical sales are reported based on the location of the customer and assets and capital expenditure based on the location of the assets.
Sweden Turkey Finland
Strategy and financial targets
8
Value creation
United Kingdom
Russia Spain France Poland Norway
Financial development 10 Key figures 12
88.8 89.9 120.1
Report of the Board of Directors
6.9
8.1
20 72
• Sustainability statement • Sustainability statement assurance report
The Netherlands
46.8 18.2
30.5 32.1
Belgium
Geographical areas
Rest of EMEA
299.5
336.8
External sales by location of customer
Non-current assets
EMEA
1,289.4
1,634.5
74
Consolidated financial statements
Capital expenditure
USA
432.8
514.5
EUR million
2023 148.9 136.0 82.3 89.8 88.8 89.9 120.1 46.8 18.2 178.1 999.0 56.2 106.1
2022 209.8 174.6 108.6 99.5 112.0 104.4 121.4
2023
2022
2023
2022
Canada
56.4 26.8
29.6
Germany
2.6 0.3
2.5 0.4
0.1 0.0
0.1 0.0
78 Notes to the consolidated financial statements 126 Parent company financial statements 129 Notes to the parent company financial statements 142 The Board’s proposal to the Annual General Meeting for the distribution of funds 143 Auditor’s Report 147 Shares and shareholders 151 Ten years in figures 152 Taxes 153 Production capacities 155 Calculation of key ratios and comparable performance measures Corporate governance 157 Corporate governance statement 165 • Board of Directors of Metsä Board 168 • Corporate Management Team of Metsä Board
Rest of Americas
102.3 646.4 198.7
Italy
Americas
516.0 136.5
Sweden Finland Spain France Poland
780.0
679.0
141.2 83.9
196.6 103.8
APAC Total
1,278.8
1,405.1
1,941.9
2,479.6
0.1 0.4 1.3
0.1 0.4 0.6
0.0 0.2
0.0 0.3 0.6
1.1
The Netherlands
30.5 32.1
Belgium Other EU EU total Turkey
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.0
192.5
1,185.4
2,063.8
2,088.3
226.7
301.4
137.5 117.3 41.9
0.0 4.9
0.0 5.3
United Kingdom
0.2 0.0
2.5 0.2
Russia Norway
0.0 6.9
8.1
Other Europe and Middle East
33.2
41.9
USA
432.8 56.4 114.2 137.3
514.5 29.6 176.1 227.3
1.6
0.6
1.4
Canada
Asia
0.5 0.0
0.3 0.0
0.4
0.0
Other countries
Total
1,941.9
2,479.6
2,070.8
2,094.6
228.7
304.1
Non-current assets include all non-current assets with the exception of derivative financial instruments and deferred tax assets.
Personnel average
Personnel at year end
By country
2023 1,303
2022 1,340
By country
2023 1,234
2022 1,226
Finland Sweden Belgium Germany
Finland Sweden Belgium Germany
170 Remuneration report 174 Investor relations and investor information
743 103
744
739 107
733
21
62 66 57 46 58
70 32 28 54
66 63 49 70
74 17 17 54
USA
USA
Singapore
Singapore
Other countries
Other countries
Total
2,333
2,352
Total
2,240
2,248
Information on most important customers There were no customers with revenue exceeding 10 per cent of total Group revenue in 2023 and 2022.
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