Investor update
Q3 2019
October 23, 2019
New dawn rises with 2020 Color of the Year
Tranquil Dawn is AkzoNobel's Color of the Year for
2020. A delicate, fluid shade somewhere between green, blue and grey, Tranquil Dawn also features in all four ColourFutures 2020 color palettes.
Agenda
Key highlights
Financial review
Concluding remarks
Q&A
Investor update | Q3 2019
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Key highlights
Investor update | Q3 2019
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Q3 2019 results show continued progress with adjusted operating income up 23%
Adjusted operating income up 23% at ¬300 million (2018: ¬243 million)
ROS, excluding unallocated costs, increased to 13.8% (2018: 12.3%)
Transformation on track and delivered ¬19 million cost savings
Adjusted EPS from continuing operations up 62% at ¬0.97 (2018: ¬0.60)
New share buyback announced, ¬500 million to be completed in the first half of 2020
Interim dividend of ¬0.41 per share
Customers who rely on super-accurate and effortless color matching and retrieval can now take advantage of four new digital tools introduced by
AkzoNobel. These include Salcomix
PaintFinder Cloud (with access to more than 600,000 color formulations); and the Color Sensor, which helps professional painters using our decorative paints match their clients'
