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| We are very excited about our growth trajectory as we focus on delivering the best possible solutions to our customers and generating strong returns for our shareholders |
| We're very, very pleased with the PFS team and how that business is integrated into GXO |
| We're excited that the PIC solution delivered a productivity increase of approximately 15% and we're now rolling out the application to dozens of sites in 2024 |
| And we're growing in a manner that's delivering fantastic returns for our shareholders |
| We signed a billion dollars of annualized new business wins positioning GXO for continued growth |
| Finally, given our rapidly expanding scale and leadership position, we're beginning to achieve meaningful procurement savings |
| Our automation portfolio also delivers margins more than 200 basis points above group levels, making our business stickier and our growth more profitable |
| What's occurring in the industry is a very exciting flywheel combo effect between outsourcing and automation |
| Looking forward, we're excited by the future growth opportunities that we've been talking about on this call |
| We are proud to say we beat the midpoint of that guidance by a healthy $26 million, with our full-year adjusted EBITDA coming in at $741 million |
| And all of this balanced with our investment in our capabilities and organization, including our sales and business development teams, where we see phenomenal opportunities, our automation focus, which is selling really, really well, and our investment in our cloud-based systems turning our potential into performance and will fuel our growth in the future |
| We're already benefiting from significant reductions to this price in various categories |
| At the time of the spin we talked about a $450 billion total addressable market of which $300 billion is handled in-house presenting a huge growth opportunity |
| We're driving great service and efficient benefits for both our new and of course, our existing customers through deploying game-changing technologies right across all of our footprint |
| That $1 billion of new business wins and towards the end, we are super excited about the acquisition of PFS, which is really performing incredibly well |
| Our deep experience and domain expertise with this level of complex automation was the primary driver for our success in winning this contract and continues to differentiate GXO in the market |
| Our expertise in automation and robotics continues to set GXO apart, and our market share is higher in verticals where we've automated for our customers |
| With resilient margins, strong cash flow, and adjusted EBITDA growth that surpassed our expectations, we won a billion dollars of great new business and expanded the gap with the competition through our investment in high return automation that meets our customers' increasing demand for outsourcing |
| Our organic growth, supported by deployment of robotics, automation, and outsourcing will contribute to our margin expansion |
| Through our acquisition of PFS, we've gained an amazing portfolio of over 100 of the world's most iconic brands |
| Our competitive advantage is helping our customers bring efficiency to life in their site operations |
| This is a resilient and growing business that had excellent trading results in the fourth quarter |
| Our automation leadership is driving stickiness and profitable growth with global customers looking to make their operations more efficient |
| We further entrenched our technology leadership position and trialed a broad range of new hardware and software solutions including humanoids, AI-powered robotics and autonomous vehicles |
| We expect our growth to accelerate, driven by new wins, with incremental one revenue for 2025 tracking nearly 30% ahead of where we were a year ago |
| Our reverse logistics grew faster than the group as a whole in 2023, and represents a high-single-digit percentage of GXO's revenues, as both new and existing customers are increasingly asking us to help them manage this critical part of their supply chain |
| We won multiple long-term, highly automated contracts with global blue chips and over half of our billion dollars of new business wins in 2023 are expected to generate revenue from automated operations We are delivering on our long-term promise of increasing our revenue from automated operations, which has risen from 37% to 42% year-over-year as of the fourth quarter |
| Our operating return on investment capital at 36% was once again well above our target |
| Our growth will accelerate given the ramp up of customer projects we have and easier year-over-year comp |
| All taken, we expect to see revenue accelerate through the year |
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| It's been reinforced, I think, through '23 is the fact that, one, we've had several years of disruption, the pandemic, supply chain disruptions, manufacturing disruption |
| So there's no doubt the consumer is still under pressure |
| And then on top of that, we've had 1.5 years of really severe kind of inflationary pressure, interest rate pressure |
| So effectively, '23, it's been a sluggish year |
| But goods, it's still a sluggish environment |
| That's put a burden on so many organizations who don't want to pass those incremental burdens on to the consumer |
| That's a real growth, probably outstripping our own expectations even |
| Just 2024 -- sort of have to work its way through like an organic revenue growth pocket in any way because what you're winning is sort of longer dated out that sort of would fade over time? Or is it really just all essentially sort of weakness in sort of end market volume that's sort of driving that organic revenue weakness versus the long-term guide? Baris Oran Hi, it’s Baris here |
| But our GXO direct customers, just the same as pretty much all of the customers that we can think of, have not been immune to this last 12 months slower pace of consumer spending |
| Probably a slower first-half with a faster second-half |
| So no doubt whatsoever we saw that trend |
| And clearly, your mix of contract wouldn't increase substantially year-over-year |
| The company's results are inherently unpredictable and may be materially affected by many factors, including fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic conditions and consumer demand and spending, labor market and global supply chain constraints, inflationary pressures and the various factors detailed in its filings with the SEC |
| Based on the input from our customers, we believe the fourth quarter was the bottom |
| So for us, we see we don't see it so much in our profitability |
| You've commented that the highly automated facilities have these longer lead times to start and it seems like the contract wins, at least in this quarter were a bit longer dated |
| We lowered our net leverage levels to 1.6 times, down from 1.8 times at the start of 2023, which includes the financing of our $150 million acquisition of PFS |
| We think that will start to reverse as economies pick up |
| So customers, it takes some time to change some time to change manufacturing plans, to reflect new sales outlook, but gradually, they've lowered down inventory levels |
| And is there any front-loading of expenses associated with those deals to in the front half? I'm just wondering if you could put a number around what that might be? Baris Oran Generally, the maturity of those contracts, the margins started very low and they mature over time |
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