Results
In 2009, the severe crisis affecting a large swath of the world’s industrial has also made its presence felt at Mecalux, whose sales totaled 402 million euros by year’s end. As for the company’s profits, Mecalux was able maintain its EBIDTA nearly in break-even point (-1% profit over sales) to reach -4 million euros, despite all the economic hardship.
In spite of financial limitations imposed by the markets, the strength of Mecalux’s bottom line has allowed it to hold its focus on the Group’s strategic priorities and continue driving a strong investment to develop its most essential projects:
- - Consolidate opportunities to grow in the NAFTA region through the acquisition of the leading assets of the Interlake Group in the United States and Mexico
- - Continue developing new automatic solutions to complete the range of its robotics line
- - Increase the number of facilities using EasyWMS®, the company’s warehouse management software, which is becoming easier and easier to install and use. Since March 2010 it can even be downloaded from the Mecalux website
International Presence
The Mecalux Group is present in more than 70 countries and owns 12 production centres.