K+S AG (SDF) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review

August 2019 | 45 pages | ID: K966B9512D9EN
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Abstracts

K+S AG (SDF) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review provides you an in-depth strategic SWOT analysis of the company’s businesses and operations. The profile has been compiled by GlobalData to bring to you a clear and an unbiased view of the company’s key strengths and weaknesses and the potential opportunities and threats. The profile helps you formulate strategies that augment your business by enabling you to understand your partners, customers and competitors better.

The profile contains critical company information including:

• Business description – A detailed description of the company’s operations and business divisions.
• Corporate strategy – Analyst’s summarization of the company’s business strategy.
• SWOT Analysis – A detailed analysis of the company’s strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats.
• Company history – Progression of key events associated with the company.
• Major products and services – A list of major products, services and brands of the company.
• Key competitors – A list of key competitors to the company.
• Key employees – A list of the key executives of the company.
• Executive biographies – A brief summary of the executives’ employment history.
• Key operational heads – A list of personnel heading key departments/functions.
• Important locations and subsidiaries – A list and contact details of key locations and subsidiaries of the company.
• Detailed financial ratios for the past five years – The latest financial ratios derived from the annual financial statements published by the company with 5 years history.
• Interim ratios for the last five interim periods – The latest financial ratios derived from the quarterly/semi-annual financial statements published by the company for 5 interims history.

Highlights

K+S AG (K+S) is an independent minerals company. It specializes in research, production and sale of specialty and standard fertilizers, plant care and salt products. It extracts crude salts containing potassium, magnesium and sulphur from its mines in Germany. K+S aims to reposition K+S as a market-focused and customer-centric company from a manufacturing-driven company. It aims to describe itself as the newOne K+S through the systematic integration of our Potash and Salt business units.The company’s products find applications in different industries such as agriculture, chemical, oil and gas drilling, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic, food industry, animal feed, textile and leather, plastics, glass, water softening and disinfection, and drinking water treatment industry. K+S also offers related services such as granulation of Catsan and Thomas; recycling; disposal and reutilization of waste salt mines; logistics; and trading in different basic chemicals. The company operates in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Oceania. K+S is headquartered in Kassel, Germany.

K+S AG Key Recent Developments

Jul 02,2019: Kalium Lakes receives credit-approved offer of finance from German KfW IPEX-Bank
Jun 12,2019: Kalium Lakes: State Environmental Ministerial statement approves implementation of Beyondie SOP Project
Mar 26,2019: Kalium Lakes concludes historic binding offtake agreement with global potash producer K+S
May 16,2018: Changes In K+S Supervisory Board
May 14,2018: K+S Starts New Fiscal Year With An Increase In Revenues

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Contents

SECTION 1 - ABOUT THE COMPANY

K+S AG - Key Facts
K+S AG - Key Employees
K+S AG - Key Employee Biographies
K+S AG - Major Products and Services
K+S AG - History
K+S AG - Company Statement
K+S AG - Locations And Subsidiaries
Head Office
Other Locations & Subsidiaries

SECTION 2 – COMPANY ANALYSIS

Company Overview
K+S AG - Business Description
Business Segment: Complementary Activities
Overview
Performance
Key Stats
Business Segment: Potash and Magnesium Products Business Unit
Overview
Performance
Key Stats
Business Segment: Salt Business Unit
Overview
Performance
Key Stats
Geographical Segment: Africa, Oceania
Performance
Geographical Segment: Asia
Performance
Geographical Segment: Europe
Performance
Geographical Segment: North America
Performance
Geographical Segment: South America
Performance
K+S AG - Corporate Strategy
K+S AG - SWOT Analysis
SWOT Analysis - Overview
K+S AG - Strengths
K+S AG - Weaknesses
K+S AG - Opportunities
K+S AG - Threats
K+S AG - Key Competitors

SECTION 3 – COMPANY FINANCIAL RATIOS

Financial Ratios - Capital Market Ratios
Financial Ratios - Annual Ratios
Performance Chart
Financial Performance
Financial Ratios - Interim Ratios
Financial Ratios - Ratio Charts
K+S AG, Recent Deals Summary

SECTION 4 – COMPANY’S RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

Jul 02, 2019: Kalium Lakes receives credit-approved offer of finance from German KfW IPEX-Bank
Jun 12, 2019: Kalium Lakes: State Environmental Ministerial statement approves implementation of Beyondie SOP Project
Mar 26, 2019: Kalium Lakes concludes historic binding offtake agreement with global potash producer K+S
May 16, 2018: Changes In K+S Supervisory Board
May 14, 2018: K+S Starts New Fiscal Year With An Increase In Revenues
Jan 17, 2018: KCF Facility Commissioned on Schedule

SECTION 5 – APPENDIX

Methodology
Ratio Definitions
About GlobalData
Contact Us
Disclaimer

List Of Tables

LIST OF TABLES

K+S AG, Key Facts
K+S AG, Key Employees
K+S AG, Key Employee Biographies
K+S AG, Major Products and Services
K+S AG, History
K+S AG, Subsidiaries
K+S AG, Key Competitors
K+S AG, Ratios based on current share price
K+S AG, Annual Ratios
K+S AG, Annual Ratios (Cont...1)
K+S AG, Annual Ratios (Cont...2)
K+S AG, Interim Ratios
K+S AG, Recent Deals Summary
Currency Codes
Capital Market Ratios
Equity Ratios
Profitability Ratios
Cost Ratios
Liquidity Ratios
Leverage Ratios
Efficiency Ratios

List Of Figures

LIST OF FIGURES

K+S AG, Performance Chart (2014 - 2018)
K+S AG, Ratio Charts

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