Gael de-Bray - Societe Generale Cross Asset Research
Analyst · Societe Generale
Regarding the overhead cost-cutting program, it seems that you've changed some of the underlying assumptions there. I mean, restructuring costs have been cut from EUR 125 million to EUR 80 million for this year. Annual investments have also been increased to EUR 140 million. I think it was up from EUR 100 million initially. So what's driving really those changes, please? And the second question actually relates to the Lighting margins. Given the slow start to the Lighting margin in H1, I guess on a sequential basis, would you say that the Lighting target in margin ranges is probably the most at risk today within the portfolio? Or do you expect really a nice pick up in profitability in the second half of the year? And obviously, what would drive such a pickup if it happens?
François Adrianus van Houten: Great questions. Let me first talk about the cost-reduction program. It's true that the restructuring will come out somewhat lower. So as I already indicated in my part of the speech, there is somewhat lower restructuring also in IG&S. There is, in certain parts of Europe, some slowness in getting the necessary approvals. So therefore, in the remainder of the year, that will be somewhat lower. Also, we find, and this is quite almost by design, I would say, that we take restructuring programs and costs on the full headcount, but much of that headcount actually finds a different destination. Many times outside or when we find different solutions, we don't have to take that. So there's always some variability. Our rule of experience is that we use about 75% to 80% of restructuring provisions taken. But at the time of restructuring, we had to take them. There's also somewhat of a shift, indeed, in the annual investments, the EUR 140 million. So as we have outlined earlier, we are literally rewiring the company. And one-off investments that it will take to get this in place in the coming years is higher than anticipated. This is mostly costs related to IT programs, the process and data building process and data capability. Maybe I can also take the opportunity to say that we are very pleased with our overhead cost-reduction program. And please note that on Page 31 of the investment deck, we have now given you, instead of cumulative savings, the savings in the year, and we did that because we are in the second year, so it's more somewhat of a more difficult thing sometimes to work with cumulative as the reference base caps being and is still 2011. So we wanted to give you a clearer picture. And you can see that therefore, in the year 2013, year-to-date, we have actually saved EUR 202 million. And therefore, we're cumulative with our achievements in the end of '11 and mostly last year. Now it's EUR 673 million, whilst the full year is EUR 900 million, so the run rate looks actually pretty good.