Low & Bonar PLC Disposal of Bonar Floors July 2008

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1 Low & Bonar PLC Disposal of Bonar Floors July

2 Bonar Floors disposal Accelerates group strategy Disposal of Bonar Floors to Forbo for 123 million (cash-free / debt-free) Reasons for disposal Opportunity to create global leader through organic and acquisitive growth Consistent with the Group s strategic development of the last three years Focus management time and financial resources on attractive growth business of Technical Textiles Positive underlying growth drivers and margin improvement potential Significant reduction in group net debt position increasing financial flexibility Attractive valuation achieved 2

3 Bonar Floors disposal transaction summary Value of 123m on a cash-free, debt-free basis Purchaser is Forbo, a Swiss industrial group with total sales of c. 800m and c. 350m in Flooring Adjusted for Westbond consideration of 11m, this represents a multiple of 8.1x 2007 EBITDA Conditional on shareholder approval, German merger clearance and consultation with Dutch and French works councils Pensions Regulator clearance achieved - 8m cash injection Net estimated disposal proceeds (post pension injection): c. 110m 3

4 Low & Bonar: Five years of transformation Timeline January 2003 Buy carpet division of Gaskell (floor tiles, UK) for 18m July 2004 Buy 50.1% Yihua Bonar (carpet backing and geotextiles, China) for 3m December 2004 July 2005 July 2005 Buy Adfil (geosynthetics) for 12.9m Buy Xirion (grass yarns, Belgium) for 16.5m Sell Bonar Plastics for 25.8m February 2006 Buy Geo-Tipptex (geosynthetics, Hungary) for 14m July 2006 Buy Colbond (carpet backing, Holland) for 103.3m + 1 for 2 rights issue at 85p raising 41.2m December 2007 Buy Mehler (technical coated fabrics, Germany) for 166m January 2008 April 2008 July 2008 Buy Westbond (floor tiles, UK) for 10.9m Announcement of yarns jv in Abu Dhabi Proposed disposal of Bonar Floors for 123m 4

5 Snapshot of Low & Bonar post disposal Products Customers Fabrics, yarns and fibres used for industrial applications Civil engineering, architects, truck side manufacturers, carpet tile manufacturers Market Size 50 bn (Global) Trend Growth Rate GDP x 2 Market Positions #1 or #2 (90% of portfolio) Competition Varies by each product 07 Organic Sales Growth 8% 07 EBIT margin 8.5% Estimated Potential EBIT Margin Up to 12% 5

6 Market and Geographical Breakdown Technical textiles 74% revenue 2007 Artificial grass 8% Print 5% Agriculture 5% Other 8% Other 11% USA 15% Transport 14% Civil engineering 22% UK 5% Building & construction 18% Carpet tile manufacturing 20% Europe 69% 6

7 Technical Textiles Leading market positions in all main segments Civil engineering Carpet tile manufacture Agriculture Leading European and Chinese supplier of woven / non-woven fabrics and composites Leading European and NA non-woven supplier of backings Leading Chinese woven supplier Leading global position in industrial greenhouse screens and premium ground covers Artificial grass yarns Leading global supplier of grass and carpet yarns Building & construction Transport, architecture and print Leading European positions in concrete additive fibres, polymeric mats for buildings and industrial wovens Leading European positions in concrete additive fibres, polymeric mats for buildings and industrial wovens 7

8 Technical Textiles Growth Drivers Backing for carpet tiles growing share at the expense of broadloom in Europe and the US Global new build and refurbishment coupled with infrastructure markets gives breadth and diversity European freight haulage volumes, especially Germany and Eastern Europe Demand for artificial sports pitches and landscapes practice and legislation Energy cost reduction and improving yields in European horticulture 8

9 A consolidation strategy underpinned by excellence in M&A and innovation Gain market share Improve margins Growth Drive product/process development Create scale Fund innovation Building our position in current markets entering new markets with similar profiles expanding technology platform to broaden the customer offering geographic focus Europe and increasingly ME & Asia Outstanding innovation delivering real value to our customers clearly understanding their business and their needs making them more successful 9

10 Spotlight on most recent product innovations Enka -Moss Colback SMR Colback F2F EnkaRetain & Drain 10

11 Technical Textiles Bonar Emirates TY Industries A major step to improve our cost structure, that gives us presence in a high growth area Joint venture agreement with leading regional partner (Abu Dhabi Basic Industries) signed This plant will capture local market and global monofilament growth Start up is planned in Q1 We will be well positioned to grow market share 11

12 Low & Bonar pro forma balance sheet post disposal Group as at 31 May 2008 Eliminations* Assets not transferred Interco balance settlement Use of proceeds Continuing Group m m m m m m Non current assets (40.4) Current assets excluding cash Cash & cash equivalents (40.8) (10.3) Current liabilities (110.8) 27.6 (0.4) - - (83.6) Interco balances (0.4) (19.1) - - Current interest bearing liabilities (12.7) (12.7) Non-current liabilities (38.2) (27.7) Non-current interestbearing liabilities (205.3) (86.3) Net assets (41.9) (0.4) * Elimination of assets and liabilities being disposed of 12

13 Technical Textiles Financial overview H1 H1 08 H1 07 FY 07 FY 06 m m m m Revenue Operating profit* Margin 8.6% 6.7% 8.5% 7.2% * Before amortisation and non-recurring items 13

14 Technical Textiles Significant historic growth Revenues m EBIT m º 0 Revenues m EBIT m * Before non-recurring items and amortisation º Numis estimate 17/3/08 14

15 A good hand of cards to deliver exceptional earnings growth Transformation into a single focus company now complete 50bn global market with volume growing at c. 2x GDP Positive underlying growth drivers mitigating macroeconomic trends Strong market positions to sustain margins Excellent innovation capabilities and range of technologies to support market share gain Continuing opportunity to improve operational efficiencies Significant M&A opportunities both bolt-on and transformational to create a global leading player and maintain strong profit growth record 15

16 Timetable Transaction announced July 28 General Meeting August 18 Closing No later than 31 October 16

17 Conclusion Group now focused on high growth, innovative Technical Textile market Opportunity for both organic and acquisitive growth Significantly improved financial flexibility Transformational disposal at an attractive valuation 17