Marnix Lux SA | | | Consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021 and for the three years ended December 31, 2022 |
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From a financial standpoint, the Group stepped up management of cash generation, through bi-monthly reporting of aged receivables and by accelerating its billing process.
Due to the Group’s highly diverse customer portfolio and effective remote management of manufacturing, growth and margins were preserved.
The measures taken in 2020 to ensure business continuity continued in 2021 to preserve growth and margins.
NOTE 3 CONSOLIDATION BASIS AND SCOPE
3.1 Consolidation methods
Companies directly or indirectly controlled by the parent company are fully consolidated. Control exists when it exposed, or has the rights, to variable returns from its involvement with an equity and has the ability to affect those returns through its power over it.
Associates in which the Parent company directly or indirectly has significant influence over their management, without however exercising full or joint control, are accounted for by the equity method. This method consists of recording the Group’s share in profit for the year of the associate in the Income Statement. The Group’s share in net assets of the associate is recorded under “other non-current assets” in the Consolidated Statement of Financial Position.
In 2020, the Company held one entity under equity method with a non-significant impact in the consolidated financial statements. Since 2021, the Company doesn’t hold any entity in which the Group has either significant influence or joint control.
The companies consolidated by the Group prepared their individual financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2022, 2021 and 2020 in accordance with local accounting policies. Adjustments have been made to harmonize local accounting policies with the accounting principles used to prepare the consolidated financial statements.
Intercompany transactions and internal profit have been eliminated.
The Group does not control any special purpose entities that have not been consolidated.
3.2 Business combinations
Business combinations are accounted for using the acquisition method. At the acquisition date, the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed are recognized at fair value and may be adjusted during the 12 months following this date. Acquisition costs are recorded in the income statement.
The list of companies included in the consolidation scope at 31 December 2022, 2021 and 2020 is presented under Note 30 “Consolidation scope”.
3.2.1 Acquisition in 2022
Acquisition of Uitblinqers
In April 2022, the Group acquired 100% of the shares of Uitblinqers, a Dutch BPO business with more than 800 employees.
The acquisition has been fully consolidated since 1 May 2022.
The transaction was settled in cash and amounted to €13.6 million (excluding €0.2 million in transaction costs). An earnout valued at €22.7 million at the acquisition date was provided for in the purchase agreement. The calculation method of earnout is based on Uitblinqers entities’ 2022 and 2023 EBITDA as defined by the purchase agreement.