Corporate Presentation and plant visit
Discover Ontex: Innovation, Growth, Internationalization, and Impact in Personal Hygiene
CFO Geert Peeters introduces Ontex. Ontex is a leading international group in personal hygiene. They design and manufacture high-quality products for baby care, feminine hygiene, and adult care, serving as the preferred partner for consumers, retailers, and institutional and private healthcare providers worldwide.
In this presentation, you will gain insights into:
• The DNA of Ontex: what makes Ontex unique
• Ontex’s strategy, mission, and vision
• Products and innovation
• Key figures, the market, and future potential
Learning challenge 1: The Controller as the Architect of the Company
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Two years ago, Ontex launched a three-year transformation program with a strategic focus on Europe and North America, divesting other activities, making significant investments in operational excellence and innovation, and driving substantial growth in the U.S. The program has been successful, resulting in strong financial performance, including revenue and profit growth, debt reduction, and the generation of solid cash flow.
As part of this initiative, the finance team conducted an in-depth cost analysis to create a blueprint for the ideal factory.
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In this session, participants will work with this archetype:
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Can this model serve as a foundation for broader applications within an organization?
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Can it be used to optimize underlying services, such as the finance function?
Participants will learn how to develop a generic business controlling model and apply it across different departments:
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Analyze how a department controls costs and measures performance
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Build a standardized model (archetype) that serves as a blueprint.
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Apply this model to other departments, ensuring a consistent and efficient way of working.
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Establish strong benchmarks, creating structure and comparability across the organization to streamline decisions and analyses.
Who is this for? What skills will be developed?
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Finance professionals with strong analytical skills.
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Deep dive into cost accounting.
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Translating financial insights into strategic decisions.
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Converting theoretical concepts into practical applications.
Tim De Waele
VP Finance Supply Chain
Learning challenge 2: Creating shareholdervalue
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Now that Ontex is once again generating strong cash flow, we are exploring how to make value creation more visible to investors, ensuring it translates into a higher share price. As part of this effort, we are considering increased reporting on Return on Capital Employed (ROCE), both externally and internally as a key metric. Additionally, investors are increasingly asking about our future cash flow utilization and how we envision our capital allocation strategy.
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Key Challenge: how can the finance function ensure that investments and factory transformations generate maximum shareholder value? How should the newly generated cash be deployed?
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What is the best strategy: a strong dividend policy or further investments?
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If further investment is the best option, how do we prioritize projects to maximize value
Participants will deep dive into the cash flow of the restructured Ontex and use ROCE analyses to identify new investment priorities that drive maximum value. Additionally, they will develop a dividend policy for the coming years.
Key Learning Outcomes
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Mapping shareholder value creation
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Understanding and managing shareholder expectations as a finance function
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Using modern analytical techniques to prioritize investment projects
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Target Audience & Skills Development
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Deep dive into corporate finance
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Measuring financial efficiency
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Benchmarking investment projects
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Making capital allocation decisions
Thomas Vanduynslager
VP Accounting & Conso
Pierre Vigin
VP Strategy
Learning challenge 3: From CSRD Reporting to Strategic Insights
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At Ontex, sustainability is a priority—not just as a CSRD compliance exercise, but because a strong commitment to sustainability is the only way to ensure that future business opportunities remain viable.
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Key Challenge: in this session, participants will analyze Ontex’s CSRD report to assess its sustainability performance and determine which future sustainability investments are most critical. They will then translate these insights into an internal ESG KPI dashboard, enabling Ontex to integrate sustainability into performance management.
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Key Learning Outcomes
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Analyze a CSRD report to evaluate sustainability performance
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Translate strategic sustainability objectives into actionable KPIs
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Address the challenges of ESG KPI selection, including measurability, data availability, materiality, time horizons, and stakeholder expectations
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Integrate sustainability goals into management decisions
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Target Audience & Skills Development
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Working with non-financial data: evaluation and materiality analysis
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Impact-driven thinking
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Stakeholder management and communication
Thomas Vanduynslager
VP Accounting & Conso
Elise Barbé
Group Sustainability Mgr
Questions?
Peter De Roeck | 0498 16 02 45| peter@fm.be
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