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Hi everyone!
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Every year we evolve
our business plan.
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We have a plan to ensure
we run in the same direction,
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no matter where we work
across the organisation.
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We also have common targets
to ensure we can work
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effectively and creatively together
across all functions.
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We also have a plan to stay
one step ahead
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in terms of our
customer's needs
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in a way that puts us
one step ahead of our competitors.
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I want to conclude a bit
on the year we're closing
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and also lay out
the updated direction
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for the year we now
kicking off on 1 May.
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As always,
the full plan is built
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on always focusing on
things we can influence ourselves.
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We also always build plans
based on Clas Ohlson's strenghts.
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Also the strenghts of us
as one big organisation.
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The big learning
from the last years
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is that we should continue
to dare to try new things,
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learn new things
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and ensure we dare
to transform ourselves
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to ensure we stay relevant
for customers on long term.
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Our foundation
is unchanged.
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It's the Blue Heart Strategy
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where we lay out our purpose,
vision, mission.
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But also the culture
of Clas Ohlson
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and laying out
leadership principles.
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In a nutshell,
we want to ensure that
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if there's a person in need
of any of our consumer mission
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they should emiditaley
think about Clas Ohlson.
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Then they should easily,
quickly find us
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and they should find
the product they need.
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If they buy it,
the should keep it for a long time,
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use it for a long time.
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If the product breaks down,
they should have an opportunity
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to come back to us
to find a spare part
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so they can fix it
and then keep using it.
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If we deliver on this,
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we will build trust
for the very long term.
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The targets for the years to come
remains unchanged.
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We want to continue
to grow our sales,
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that's a driving force
for all of us.
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It's critical that we
continously drive growth.
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Secondly.
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Profitability
is a measure of success
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but it's also an
enabler of our future.
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If we're profitable we can reinvest
into further customer relevance
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and growth also
for the future.
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We also have our sustainability
targets that are ambitious.
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We will continue
run on them.
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But sustainability is also
one of the core values
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of all of us
working within Clas Ohlson.
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Our strengths is all about
delivering and develop
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an optimal
and relevant assortment.
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Evolving our strong
Clas Ohlson brand.
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Also delivering a
fantastic customer service
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in every meeting with customers
across channels.
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That's really our ABC.
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Assortment, Brand,
Customer Meeting.
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If we do this well
and in a cost effective way
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it will give us an opportunity
to continously invest in those areas
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to build us stronger for the future.
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The updated plan
now includes a new third year.
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Fiscal year 26/27.
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In the plan we strive
for delivering win, win, win.
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For customers, for ourselves
but also for our shareholders.
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We're committed and confident
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that the plan we have
has the ability to do just that.
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We have seen this year 23/24,
that we just closing
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that the strategy is working,
we're on the right track.
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Just reweiving the things
that has happened this year.
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We layed out eight big
How to win-movements.
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as we started the year.
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First we talked about becoming
more of a low cost retailer
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to ensure we're always competive
with discounters and low price-players.
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We have seen lots of activities.
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It has put us in a
very competetive position.
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We're fewer white collar employees.
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We have initiated
a big transformation on our IT.
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We have done lots of work
across logistics.
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Basically across all teams,
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we have done work to become
simpler and more effective.
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Secondly,
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in our ambition to have
a relevant assortment 12 months a year
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we have seen great
progress.
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We have launched more new products
than we have ever done before.
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It's working.
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We see growth across
all five consumer missions.
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The third how to win,
building a profitable e-com,
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we have also seen
big progress.
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Our e-com as been growing fast.
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It has also become
more profitable then ever before.
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Fourth.
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We said that we wanted
to expand the store network.
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Wow what a journey.
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Closing the year,
we have opened ten new stores.
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Every store has rendered
big headlines in local media,
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really shown the strength
of Clas Ohlson
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but also giving more customers
access to visit us.
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We should also remember,
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the expansion would never
had been possible
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unless we delivered on
becoming much more cost effective.
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We have seen great work
on the fifth How to win,
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optimizing our marketing
and leveraging Club Clas.
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We are out there
with our customers.
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We're spending most
marketing efforts
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in channels where
customers engage with us.
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Club Clas is delivering value.
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We see hundreds of thousands
of new customers becoming members.
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We're growing with new,
younger target groups for the first time.
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We've also seen great progress
on leveraging AI as a tool
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to become more relevant
and effective within marketing.
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We have executed on
the sustainability plan.
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We have done a lof of work
on our people plan
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to update leadership principles
and evolve our organisation.
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Number seven,
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we have gone after our
B2B-customers in a new way.
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We've been growing,
recruited more B2B-customers.
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Simplified the process
also for them.
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Last but not least,
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we've done a big restructuring
of Clas Fixare.
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Ensuring we focusing on
services that are relevant
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but also services where
we can do a good job
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and build a growing,
profitable business over time.
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On top of all of those things,
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we have also completed
an aquistion of Spares.
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It's fully in line with
our consumer missions
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and fully in line with
our purpose as a company.
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Looking ahead
into next year.
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The market is as competetive
and fierce as always.
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We see the big discounters and
low price-players growing significantly,
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doing a really good job
serving their customers.
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We also see competitors
like Temu and Amazon
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really playing to win online.
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We should constantly benchmark ourselves
versus the outside world,
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but then ensure that our plan
is based on what we can influence.
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The plan for the year ahead
is built on the same plan that we closed.
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This year we will have nine
How To Win-actions.
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Eight are similar
but evolved from this year.
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We have added a ninth
which is all about Finland.
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We have developed
a specific Finnish plan
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to ensure we win with
our assortment in Finland
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versus the Finnish
customers on their terms.
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We're also evolving the way
we look at our store network.
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Apart from expansion,
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we also invest even more
in the network that we have.
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Ensuring it's robust
for the future.
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When it comes to
marketing and Club Clas,
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we're doing even more to
ensure we become
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the destination we want to be
across all five consumer missions.
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You'll find more details
on each area on Conet.
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We will share more information
as we go ahead.
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But rest assured
there's a solid plan.
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There're a lof of activities
planned
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to ensure we continue
the journey we're on
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and that we continue to deliver
on the needs of our customers.
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I'm confident that
we're on the right track.
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I'm confident we as one big team
and one Clas Ohlson
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will find a way to deliver
in the next years to come.
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I very much look forward
kicking off another year, starting 1 May.
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Thank you for tuning in,
see you all again soon.