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Adam Kindreich, CFA
EUR 147.86 For Business Accounts Only

Long-Awaited Demerger Is a Positive for SCA

SCA has announced that it will demerge in second-half 2017 if shareholders accept at its next annual general meeting, expected in April 2017. SCA's hygiene business, which accounts for 85% of sales and 80% of operating profit and contains the tissue and personal-care businesses (diapers, feminine care, incontinence products), will be spun off from the forest products division. This transaction should better focus each business, enabling investors to buy a pure-play hygiene company. With limited ...
Underlying
Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget Class B

Svenska Cellulosa is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is a global consumer goods and paper company that develops, produces and markets personal care products, tissue, publication papers and solid-wood products. Co. consists of three business areas - Personal Care, Tissue and Forest Products. Personal Care activities comprise three product segments: incontinence products, baby diapers and feminine hygiene products. Co.'s Tissue product portfolio comprises toilet paper, kitchen rolls, facial tissues, handkerchiefs and napkins. Co.'s Forest Products offers publication papers, kraftliner (packaging papers), pulp, solid-wood products and renewable energy.

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Morningstar
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Adam Kindreich, CFA

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