Published on : Thursday, July 31, 2014
Sealed Air Corporation today announced financial results for the second quarter 2014. Commenting on these results, Jerome A. Peribere, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, “Second quarter 2014 net sales of $2.0 billion increased 3.0% on a constant dollar basis compared to last year primarily due to favorable price/mix of 3.4%. We delivered favorable price/mix across all divisions,
which contributed to a year-over-year improvement of 50 basis points in gross profit margin. Adjusted EBITDA margin in the quarter increased 90 basis points to 14.4% as compared to 13.5% in the previous year.
Based on our performance in the first half of 2014 and outlook for the remainder of the year, we are raising our full year 2014 guidance for Net Sales, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EPS and Free Cash Flow. Our second quarter results and increased outlook for the full year demonstrate that our continued focus on quality of earnings is progressing ahead of our original expectations.”
“As part of our ‘Change the Game’ strategy and as a significant step in transforming Sealed Air into a knowledge-based company, we announced last week that we are relocating our global headquarters to a new, state-of-the-art campus in Charlotte, North Carolina. This move will create a stronger, one-company culture that enables greater collaboration, accelerates innovation and drives operating efficiencies. The new campus is expected to be completed by late 2016, and during this period we do not expect the cash costs to have a material impact on our financial outlook,” Peribere continued.
All results presented in this release include results on a continuing operations basis and reflect the change in the Company’s segment structure as previously disclosed in our Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 16, 2014. The Rigid Medical Packaging business, which the Company sold in December 2013, has been presented as discontinued operations.
Reported information is defined as U.S. GAAP. Year-over-year net sales discussions present both reported and constant dollar performance. Constant dollar sales performance excludes the impact of currency translation. Additionally, non-U.S. GAAP adjusted financial measures, such as Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes and Depreciation and Amortization (“Adjusted EBITDA”), Adjusted Net Earnings, Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share (“Adjusted EPS”) and Tax Rate, exclude the impact of special items, such as restructuring charges, cash-settled stock appreciation rights (“SARs”) granted as part of the Diversey acquisition and certain other one-time items.
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