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FLLYR: RBD: Restaurant Brands Full Year Results Announcement

9 April 2014
NZX

RESTAURANT BRANDS' 2014 ANNUAL RESULT

 2014
$m 2013
$m Change
%
Total Group Revenue 330.4 312.8 +5.6
Group Net Profit after Tax* 18.9 17.7 +6.8
Dividend (cps) 16.5 16.0 +3.1
* Excluding non-trading items

Key points

o Group Net Profit after Tax (excluding non-trading items) was $18.9 million
(19.3 cents per share), up 6.8% on prior year.

o Total Group Revenue of $330.4 million was up $17.6 million (+5.6%) with
growth from KFC and the roll out of the Carl's Jr. brand.

o KFC sales continued to grow to a new high of $241.5 million despite
competitive market conditions.

o Pizza Hut and Starbucks Coffee continued to deliver solid same store sales
growth, up 15.3% and 5.7% respectively.

o The roll out of the new Carl's Jr. brand commenced in earnest with six new
stores opened over the year, contributing $12.4 million in incremental
revenue and bringing store numbers to eight.

o Total store EBITDA of $53.5 million was up $2.0 million (3.9%) on the prior
year with a continued strong performance by Pizza Hut and Starbucks Coffee,
together with positive earnings from Carl's Jr. offsetting slightly reduced
margins in KFC.

o Operating cash flows were $32.7 million, marginally down on prior year.
Investing cash flows were $9.8 million favourable to the prior year with the
impact of property sale and leasebacks and continued sell down of Pizza Hut
stores. As a result net debt fell to $8.2 million at year end.

o A final fully imputed dividend of 10.0 cents per share will be paid on 27
June, making a full year dividend of 16.5 cents (up 3.1% on the previous
year).

Group Operating Results

Restaurant Brands Net Profit after Tax (excluding non-trading items) for the
52 weeks to 24 February 2014 (FY14) was $18.9 million (19.3 cents per share),
up 6.8% on last year's profit of $17.7 million (18.0 cents per share).

Net Profit after Tax (including non-trading items) was $20.0 million (20.4
cps) up 23.5% on the $16.2 million (16.5 cps) result in FY13.

Non-trading items primarily comprised gains on sale and leaseback of stores
and totaled $1.5 million (pre-tax) compared with non-trading losses of $2.4
million in the prior year.

Total store sales of $329.3 million were up $17.4 million (+5.6%) on the
previous year's sales. Same store sales for the group were up 2.4% (up 1.9%
in FY13).

Store EBITDA (before G&A costs) was up by $2.0 million (3.9%) to $53.5
million, driven mainly by the continuing strong turnaround in Pizza Hut's
results.  Pizza Hut continued to be the standout performer for the year
increasing EBITDA by $1.7 million (on top of $1.7 million in FY13) to $5.5
million. Starbucks Coffee also delivered a strong improvement in earnings, up
19.4% to $3.5 million for the year with Carl's Jr. breaking even (up $0.5
million on FY13). KFC saw profit slip slightly by $0.7 million to $44.5
million.

Year end store numbers at 176 were one down on February 2013 with continuing
sales of regional Pizza Hut stores to independent franchisees, largely offset
by new builds for Carl's Jr.

KFC

 2014
$m 2013
$m Change
$m Change
%
Sales 241.5 237.0 +4.5 +1.9
EBITDA 44.5 45.3 -0.7 -1.6
EBITDA as % of Sales 18.4 19.1 - -

KFC sales continued to climb to yet another high at $241.5 million, up $4.5
million on the prior year. The soft retail environment and aggressive
competitor activity put some pressure on sales during the first half, but the
brand finished strongly with 4.1% same store sales growth in the last quarter
and 0.2% for the full year (versus -1.0% in FY13).

Meeting competitor discounting activity put some pressure on margins with KFC
producing an EBITDA of $44.5 million, 1.6% ($0.7 million) down on prior year.
As a % of sales, brand EBITDA declined from 19.1% to 18.4%, but improved over
the year from 17.7% in the first half to 19.3% in the second.

KFC promotional activity focussed on meeting competitor activity with the
launch of the Value Menu. However considerable success was achieved with the
launch of new burger variants, including the Kentucky, the Mexican and the
Real Kahuna  burgers and the new Family Meals menu.

The pace of store transformation was slowed, but will pick up again in the
new year as the brand moves to fully complete the upgrade of its entire KFC
network by FY16.  As at balance date KFC had 71 of its 90 stores new or fully
refurbished.  Two stores (Otahuhu and Upper Hutt) received major upgrades and
a further 21 stores saw minor (five-year) upgrades.  Total store numbers
increased to 90 with the opening of a new store at Auckland airport.

Pizza Hut

 2014
$m 2013
$m Change
$m Change
%
Sales 48.4 47.9 +0.5 +1.1
EBITDA 5.5 3.8 +1.7 +44.8
EBITDA as % of Sales 11.4 7.9 - -

Pizza Hut had another very strong year, continuing to deliver both sales and
margin growth in a very competitive pizza market.  The brand continues to
build momentum on its underlying premise of selling quality pizzas at an
everyday competitive price and maintaining high levels of customer service.

Despite having store numbers six (10.5%) less than last year as a result of
the sell down programme, Pizza Hut still managed to increase total sales out
of the remaining stores by $0.5 million (+1.1%) and grew same store sales by
15.3% (on top of 21.2% growth in the FY13 year).

Continuing improvements in sales volumes and better operational efficiencies,
together with the sale of lower margin stores meant another excellent
improvement in earnings. EBITDA was up a further $1.7 million (44.8%) on
prior year, which was itself up $1.7 million (80.8%) on the year before.
Resulting EBITDA was $5.5 million or 11.4% of sales (7.9% in FY13).

The sale of regional and lower volume stores to independent franchisees
continued, although at a slower pace with only six sold over the year,
leaving Restaurant Brands with a total of 51 stores out of a total of 84 in
the market. With the improved profitability of the brand there has been
strong demand from potential purchasers of these Pizza Hut stores.

Starbucks Coffee

 2014
$m 2013
$m Change
$m Change
%
Sales 25.0 25.1 -0.1 -0.3
EBITDA 3.5 2.9 +0.6 +19.4
EBITDA as % of Sales 14.0 11.7 - -

The Starbucks Coffee brand continued to steadily improve its sales and profit
performance with network rationalisation now largely complete and in-store
efficiencies well established.

Whilst total Starbucks Coffee sales at $25.0 million were flat to prior year
with two less stores, same store sales grew strongly to +5.7% (-1.7% in
FY13).

Sales leverage and continuing operating efficiencies (with some assistance
from a stronger exchange rate) saw Starbucks Coffee EBITDA climb strongly to
$3.5 million, up 19.4% on the prior year.

There are now 27 Starbucks Coffee stores operating following the closure of
all non-performing stores and the brand is now well positioned for
consolidation and future steady growth.

Carl's Jr.

 2014
$m 2013
$m Change
$m Change
%
Sales 14.3 1.9 +12.4 +662.2
EBITDA 0.0 -0.5 +0.5 -
EBITDA as % of Sales 0.0 -26.4 - -

This year saw the continuation of the roll out of the Carl's Jr. brand with a
further six stores opening over the year to add to the two opened at the end
of the previous financial year.

New store openings produced significant sales surges, which have now settled
back to more stable levels. Total sales for the year were $14.3 million as
Carl's Jr. begins to build a presence in the Restaurant Brands' stable.

Bringing a new brand to market in a competitive environment has been a
challenge in its first full year of operation. New store openings meant
significant set up costs, particularly in recruiting and training staff.
Moving to local sourcing of raw ingredients such as beef patties took
somewhat longer than anticipated, but some benefits began to flow in the
second half of the year. As a consequence, Carl's Jr. produced an EBITDA loss
of $0.2 million in the first half, but turned this around to an equivalent
profit in the second half, resulting in a breakeven position for the full
year. Margins have continued to improve further with lower ingredient costs.
The brand has seen improved labour efficiencies and lower wastage as stores
have begun to establish more stable trading patterns.

Corporate and Other Costs

G&A (above store overheads) at $13.1 million were well controlled. They were
$0.1 million down on prior year and on the targeted 4.0% of sales (4.2% in
FY13).

Group non-trading gains of $1.5 million arose primarily from gains on sale
following the successful sale and leaseback of two KFC stores and one Carl's
Jr. store during the year. This compares with a $2.4 million non-trading loss
in FY13.

Depreciation charges of $14.1 million were up $0.5 million on the prior year
largely as a result of the Carl's Jr. new store roll out (an additional $0.8
million). Reduced depreciation charges in Pizza Hut and Starbucks Coffee with
store disposals and closures were offset by an incremental $0.4 million in
KFC with a new store and transformation expenditure.

Interest and funding costs at $0.8 million were flat to prior year with
continuing lower debt levels and a benign interest rate environment. Bank
interest rates (inclusive of margins) for the year averaged 4.9% compared
with 5.0% in FY13.

Cash Flow and Balance Sheet

Operating cash flows at $32.7 million were similar to the prior year,
reflecting higher profitability but without the same benefit of favourable
working capital movements.

Investing cash outflows were $22.5 million, similar to the prior year's $24.2
million, reflecting the increased capital expenditure in KFC and the build of
six more Carl's Jr. stores. However investing receipts from the sale and
leaseback of three new stores and Pizza Hut store sales, together with the
last of the Christchurch insurance proceeds contributed positive investing
cash inflows of $12.4 million (up $8.0 million on prior year). Hence net cash
flows from investing activities were a net outflow of $10.1 million ($19.8
million in FY13).

The resulting free cash flows enabled a net reduction in borrowings of $6.5
million over the year and dividend payments of $16.1 million. Resulting bank
debt was down to $8.2 million at year end.

Total assets at year end were $108.3 million, $3.4 million down on the prior
year end. The bulk of the change was in non-current assets, with three
significant properties on the balance sheet in FY13 sold during the year as
sale and leasebacks.

Total liabilities were down by $7.7 million to $43.7 million largely as a
result of the reduction in borrowings.

Year end shareholders' funds of $64.7 million were $4.3 million up on prior
year because of increases in retained earnings.

The balance sheet remains very conservative with a gearing ratio of 11%
(FY13: 19%).

Dividend

Directors have declared a final fully imputed dividend of 10.0 cents per
share. The continuing strong cash flows and low levels of debt mean that
dividend levels have been able to be increased slightly on last year's with
the resultant full-year dividend of 16.5 cents per share (16.0 cents in
FY13).

The 10.0 cents final dividend will be paid on 27 June 2014 to all
shareholders on the register as at 13 June 2014.  A supplementary dividend of
1.7647 cents per share will also be paid to overseas shareholders on that
date.

The dividend re-investment plan remains suspended for this dividend.

Outlook

Directors believe that the $18.9 million NPAT (excluding non-trading) was a
solid result for the company given the current economic and competitive
environment.

The retail sector was not particularly robust in the first half of the year
and competitive activity (particularly in price discounting) was aggressive.

The company met the dual challenges of both maintaining market share and
margin in a competitive environment whilst building a new brand and
Restaurant Brands will be in a strong position to benefit from the general
economic recovery in the coming year.

KFC will see significant capital investment over the new financial year as
the brand focuses on bringing the remainder of its network up to new store
standard. With some management changes and a renewed focus on operational
performance, the brand is expected to deliver both sales and margin growth in
the FY15 year.

Pizza Hut will continue to maintain its sales and margin momentum with
another year of solid same store sales and earnings growth anticipated. The
store sell down process to independent franchisees will continue, albeit at a
slower pace.

Starbucks Coffee, like Pizza Hut, continues to perform well and is expected
to also benefit from the economic recovery with continued sales growth and
(assisted by sales leverage and a strong exchange rate) higher profit.

The Carl's Jr. brand will see continued new store roll outs over the new year
with four to five new stores anticipated over the next 12 months. As with any
new brand there will be challenges in both maintaining sales momentum
following new opening peaks and building margins as new store set up costs
are incurred and the benefits of localising supply chain and store
efficiencies are realised.

With a strong start to the new financial year and improving economic
situation, Directors are cautiously optimistic that the company will produce
a NPAT (before non-trading items) in excess of $20 million for the new year.

Annual Shareholders' Meeting

The Annual Shareholders' Meeting for the company will be held in Auckland on
26 June 2014.

For further information please contact:

Russel Creedy  Grant Ellis
CEO  CFO/Company Secretary
Phone: 525 8710  Phone: 525 8710

ENDS

About Restaurant Brands:

Restaurant Brands New Zealand Limited operates the New Zealand outlets of
KFC, Pizza Hut, Carl's Jr. and Starbucks Coffee.  These brands - four of the
world's most famous - are distinguished for their product, look, style and
ambience, service and for the total experience they deliver to their
customers in New Zealand and around the world.

RESTAURANT BRANDS GROUP
Consolidated Income Statement
For the 52 week period ended 24 February 2014

 24 February 2014  vs Prior  28 February 2013
   %
$NZ000's

Sales
KFC 241,521  1.9  237,032
Pizza Hut 48,393  1.1  47,876
Starbucks Coffee 25,041  (0.3) 25,115
Carl's Jr. 14,314  662.2  1,878
Total sales 329,269  5.6  311,901

Other revenue 1,130  23.9  912
Total operating revenue 330,399  5.6  312,813

Cost of goods sold (273,493)  (6.0)  (258,081)

Gross margin 56,906  4.0  54,732

Distribution expenses  (2,464) 7.8  (2,672)
Marketing expenses (14,656)  (6.9)  (13,716)
General and administration expenses (13,088)  0.9  (13,203)

EBIT before non-trading 26,698 6.2  25,141

Non-trading 1,472  161.2  (2,405)

EBIT 28,170  23.9  22,736

Interest income 19  46.2  13
Interest expense (774) 9.0  (851)

Net profit before taxation 27,415  25.2  21,898

Taxation expense  (7,462)  (30.0)  (5,739)

Total profit after taxation (NPAT) 19,953  23.5  16,159

Total NPAT excluding non-trading 18,863  6.8  17,654

  % sales    % sales
EBITDA before G&A
KFC 44,529 18.4 (1.6)  45,272 19.1
Pizza Hut 5,496 11.4 44.8  3,796 7.9
Starbucks Coffee 3,498 14.0 19.4  2,929 11.7
Carl's Jr. 4 - n/a  (495) (26.4)
Total  53,527 16.3 3.9 51,502 16.5

Ratios
Net tangible assets per security (net tangible assets divided by number of
shares) in cents 47.2c   42.5c

 Cost of goods sold are direct costs of operating stores: food, paper,
freight, labour and store overheads.
 Distribution expenses are costs of distributing product from store.

 Marketing expenses are call centre, advertising and local store
marketing expenses.
 General and administration expenses (G&A) are non-store related
overheads.
Restaurant Brands Group
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
For the 52 week period ended 24 February 2014

The Group results are prepared in accordance with New Zealand Generally
Accepted Accounting Practice ("GAAP") and comply with International Financial
Reporting Standards ("IFRS").  These financial statements include non-GAAP
financial measures that are not prepared in accordance with IFRS.  The
non-GAAP financial measures used in this presentation are as follows:

1. EBITDA before G&A.  The Group calculates Earnings Before Interest, Tax,
Depreciation and Amortisation ("EBITDA") before G&A (general and
administration expenses) by taking net profit before taxation and adding back
(or deducting) net financing expenses, non-trading items, depreciation,
amortisation and G&A.  The Group also refers to this measure as Concept
EBITDA before G&A.

The term Concept refers to the Group's four operating segments comprising
KFC, Pizza Hut, Starbucks Coffee and Carl's Jr.  The term G&A represents
non-store related overheads.

2. EBIT before non-trading.  Earnings before interest and taxation ("EBIT")
before non-trading is calculated by taking net profit before taxation and
adding back (or deducting) net financing expenses and non-trading items.

3. Non-trading items.  Non-trading items represent amounts the Group
considers unrelated to the day to day operational performance of the Group.
Excluding non-trading items enables the Group to measure underlying trends of
the business and monitor performance.

4. EBIT after non-trading items.  The Group calculates EBIT after non-trading
items by taking net profit before taxation and adding back net financing
expenses.

5. Total NPAT excluding non-trading.  Total Net Profit After Taxation
("NPAT") excluding non-trading items is calculated by taking profit after
taxation attributable to shareholders and adding back (or deducting)
non-trading items whilst also allowing for any tax impact of those items.

6. Capital expenditure including intangibles.  Capital expenditure including
intangibles represents additions to property, plant and equipment and
intangible assets

The Group believes that these non-GAAP measures provide useful information to
readers to assist in the understanding of the financial performance and
position of the Group but that they should not be viewed in isolation, nor
considered as a substitute for measures reported in accordance with IFRS.
Non-GAAP measures as reported by the Group may not be comparable to similarly
titled amounts reported by other companies.

The following is a reconciliation between these non-GAAP measures and net
profit after taxation:

     Note* 24 Feb 2014 28 Feb 2013
$NZ000's

EBITDA before G&A     1 53,527 51,502
Depreciation   (14,114)  (13,573)
Loss on sale of property, plant and equipment (included in depreciation)
(51)  (62)
Amortisation (included in cost of sales)      (1,432)  (1,068)
General and administration - area managers, general managers and support
centre     (11,232)  (11,658)
EBIT before non-trading     2 26,698  25,141
Non-trading items     3 1,472  (2,405)
EBIT after non-trading items  4 28,170  22,736
Net financing costs  (755) (838)
Net profit before taxation  27,415  21,898
Income tax expense (7,462)  (5,739)
Net profit after taxation      19,953  16,159
(Deduct) / add back non-trading items    (1,472)  2,405
Taxation expense / (credit) on non-trading items      382  (910)
Net profit after taxation excluding non-trading items   5 18,863  17,654

* Refers to the list of non-GAAP measures as listed above.
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