DGAP-News: Supplement to the press release from 02.05.2022 - Highlight Group with positive sales and earnings growth in fiscal year 2021

Supplement to the press release from 02.05.2022
Highlight Group with positive sales and earnings growth in fiscal year 2021

Pratteln, May 25, 2022 – The audited Annual Report 2021 is available for download as of today at www.highlight-communications.ch and replaces the preliminary version of the Annual Report published on May 2, which was still unaudited at that time but had been approved by the auditors.

There have been no changes to the already published consolidated income statement in the preliminary version subsequent to the audit.

In the consolidated statement of financial position, a foreign currency adjustment was made to the goodwill of Sport1 Medien AG (formerly Constantin Medien AG) from 2018 following the audit. This adjustment entry of CHF 14.1 million was charged to equity and resulted in a restatement of the previous year 2020. The amendments required for this restatement are described in detail in Note 2.3 on page 97 of this Annual Report. In accordance with the corrections made, the balances on the balance sheet items "Goodwill" and "Equity" had to be adjusted compared with the preliminary version published on May 2.

 

The Highlight Group at a glance     Group figures (IFRS)               CHF million 2021 2020 Change in % Sales 508.2 414.6 22.6 EBIT 28.6 25.6 11.7 Consolidated net profit
(after taxes) 15.4 12.0 28.4 Net profit attributable to shareholders 14.8 12.2 21.5 Earnings per share (in CHF) 0.26 0.21 23.8 Segment revenue       Film 331.5 261.3 26.8 Sports- and Event-Marketing 68.4 61.5 11.2 Sports 108.3 91.8 18.1 Segment earnings       Film 15.9 13.3 19.6 Sports- and Event-Marketing 27.3 27.2 0.1 Sports -7.7 -9.0 n/a         CHF million Dec. 31, 2021 Dec. 31, 2020
(Restated) Change in % Total assets 674.5 652.2 3.5 Equity 196.1 198.0 1.0 Equity ratio (%) 29.1 30.4 -1.3 points Financial liabilities 190.6 172.7 10.4 Cash and cash equivalents 48.3 48.2 0.3           For further information:

Highlight Communications AG       Investor Relations       Netzibodenstrasse 23b       CH-4133 Pratteln BL       Tel: +41 (0) 61 816 96 91       E-mail: ir@hlcom.ch