The Group has more than 180 facilities across the world serving a range of market sectors with various thermal processing services. The range and type of services offered is common to all market sectors.
In accordance with IFRS 8 Operating Segments, the segmentation of Group activity reflects the way the Group is managed by the chief operating decision-maker, being the Group Chief Executive, who regularly reviews the operating performance of six operating segments, split between the Aerospace, Defence & Energy (ADE) and Automotive & General Industrial (AGI) business areas, as follows:
- ADE – Western Europe;
- ADE – North America;
- ADE – Emerging markets;
- AGI – Western Europe;
- AGI – North America; and
- AGI – Emerging markets.
The split of operating segments by geography reflects the business reporting structure of the Group.
In accordance with the aggregation criteria of IFRS 8, the operating segments are aggregated into the Group's two key business areas, ADE and AGI, the split being driven by customer behaviour and requirements. Customers in the ADE segment tend to operate and purchase more globally and have long supply chains, whilst customers in the AGI segment tend to purchase more locally and have shorter supply chains.
Bodycote plants do not exclusively supply services to customers of a given market sector. Allocations of plants between ADE and AGI is therefore derived by reference to the preponderance of markets served.
| Group | ADE
2018
£m | AGI
2018
£m | Central
costs and
eliminations
2018
£m | Consolidated
2018
£m |
| Revenue | | | | |
| Total revenue | 288.0 | 440.6 | – | 728.6 |
| Result | | | | |
| Headline operating profit prior to share-based payments and unallocated central costs | 69.0 | 85.7 | – | 154.7 |
| Share-based payments (including social charges) | (0.3) | (3.3) | (1.8) | (5.4) |
| Unallocated central costs | – | – | (11.0) | (11.0) |
| Headline operating profit/(loss) | 68.7 | 82.4 | (12.8) | 138.3 |
| Amortisation of acquired intangible fixed assets | (0.9) | (2.8) | – | (3.7) |
| Acquisition costs | – | – | (0.5) | (0.5) |
| Segment result | 67.8 | 79.6 | (13.3) | 134.1 |
| Investment revenue | | | | 0.2 |
| Finance costs | | | | (2.1) |
| Profit before taxation | | | | 132.2 |
| Taxation | | | | (28.6) |
| Profit for the year | | | | 103.6 |
Inter-segment sales are not material in either year.
The Group does not rely on any individual major customers.
| Aerospace, Defence & Energy | Western
Europe
2018
£m | North
America
2018
£m | Emerging
markets
2018
£m | Total ADE
2018
£m |
| Revenue | | | | |
| Total revenue | 137.7 | 149.1 | 1.2 | 288.0 |
| Result | | | | |
| Headline operating profit/(loss) prior to share-based payments | 33.6 | 35.9 | (0.5) | 69.0 |
| Share-based payments (including social charges) | 0.1 | (0.4) | – | (0.3) |
| Headline operating profit/(loss) | 33.7 | 35.5 | (0.5) | 68.7 |
| Amortisation of acquired intangible fixed assets | 0.2 | (1.1) | – | (0.9) |
| Segment result | 33.9 | 34.4 | (0.5) | 67.8 |
| Automotive & General Industrial | Western
Europe
2018
£m | North
America
2018
£m | Emerging
markets
2018
£m | Total AGI
2018
£m |
| Revenue | | | | |
| Total revenue | 272.0 | 106.5 | 62.1 | 440.6 |
| Result | | | | |
| Headline operating profit prior to share-based payments | 57.9 | 11.8 | 16.0 | 85.7 |
| Share-based payments (including social charges) | (2.5) | (0.6) | (0.2) | (3.3) |
| Headline operating profit | 55.4 | 11.2 | 15.8 | 82.4 |
| Amortisation of acquired intangible fixed assets | (0.3) | (2.5) | – | (2.8) |
| Segment result | 55.1 | 8.7 | 15.8 | 79.6 |
| Group | ADE
2017
£m | AGI
2017
£m | Central
costs and
eliminations
2017
£m | Consolidated
2017
£m |
| Revenue | | | | |
| Total revenue | 273.1 | 417.1 | – | 690.2 |
| Result | | | | |
| Headline operating profit prior to share-based payments and unallocated central costs | 65.6 | 77.3 | – | 142.9 |
| Share-based payments (including social charges) | (1.4) | (3.1) | (4.6) | (9.1) |
| Unallocated central costs | – | – | (9.9) | (9.9) |
| Headline operating profit/(loss) | 64.2 | 74.2 | (14.5) | 123.9 |
| Amortisation of acquired intangible fixed assets | (1.5) | (3.0) | – | (4.5) |
| Segment result | 62.7 | 71.2 | (14.5) | 119.4 |
| Investment revenue | | | | 0.1 |
| Finance costs | | | | (2.5) |
| Profit before taxation | | | | 117.0 |
| Taxation | | | | (19.7) |
| Profit for the year | | | | 97.3 |
| Aerospace, Defence & Energy | Western
Europe
2017
£m | North
America
2017
£m | Emerging
markets
2017
£m | Total ADE
2017
£m |
| Revenue | | | | |
| Total revenue | 126.0 | 145.7 | 1.4 | 273.1 |
| Result | | | | |
| Headline operating profit prior to share-based payments | 30.7 | 34.7 | 0.2 | 65.6 |
| Share-based payments (including social charges) | (0.5) | (0.9) | – | (1.4) |
| Headline operating profit | 30.2 | 33.8 | 0.2 | 64.2 |
| Amortisation of acquired intangible fixed assets | (0.3) | (1.2) | – | (1.5) |
| Segment result | 29.9 | 32.6 | 0.2 | 62.7 |
| Automotive & General Industrial | Western
Europe
2017
£m | North
America
2017
£m | Emerging
markets
2017
£m | Total AGI
2017
£m |
| Revenue | | | | |
| Total revenue | 258.9 | 105.5 | 52.7 | 417.1 |
| Result | | | | |
| Headline operating profit prior to share-based payments | 51.2 | 11.6 | 14.5 | 77.3 |
| Share-based payments (including social charges) | (2.4) | (0.4) | (0.3) | (3.1) |
| Headline operating profit | 48.8 | 11.2 | 14.2 | 74.2 |
| Amortisation of acquired intangible fixed assets | (0.4) | (2.6) | – | (3.0) |
| Segment result | 48.4 | 8.6 | 14.2 | 71.2 |
Other information
| Group | ADE
2018
£m | AGI
2018
£m | Central
costs and
eliminations
2018
£m | Consolidated
2018
£m |
| Gross capital additions | 26.1 | 56.2 | 1.9 | 84.2 |
| Depreciation and amortisation | 23.6 | 40.1 | 2.0 | 65.7 |
| Balance sheet | | | | |
| Assets: | | | | |
| Segment assets | 366.2 | 557.8 | 66.1 | 990.1 |
| Liabilities: | | | | |
| Segment liabilities | (56.7) | (133.5) | (73.3) | (263.5) |
| 309.5 | 424.3 | (7.2) | 726.6 |
| Allocation of head office net liabilities | (3.0) | (4.2) | 7.2 | – |
| Adjusted segment net assets | 306.5 | 420.1 | – | 726.6 |
| Aerospace, Defence & Energy | Western
Europe
2018
£m | North
America
2018
£m | Emerging
markets
2018
£m | Total ADE
2018
£m |
| Gross capital additions | 14.5 | 11.2 | 0.4 | 26.1 |
| Depreciation and amortisation | 10.3 | 13.1 | 0.2 | 23.6 |
| Balance sheet | | | | |
| Assets: | | | | |
| Segment assets | 175.4 | 185.9 | 4.9 | 366.2 |
| Liabilities: | | | | |
| Segment liabilities | (29.8) | (26.2) | (0.7) | (56.7) |
| Segment net assets | 145.6 | 159.7 | 4.2 | 309.5 |
| Automotive & General Industrial | Western
Europe
2018
£m | North
America
2018
£m | Emerging
markets
2018
£m | Total AGI
2018
£m |
| Gross capital additions | 24.7 | 18.3 | 13.2 | 56.2 |
| Depreciation and amortisation | 23.6 | 10.7 | 5.8 | 40.1 |
| Balance sheet | | | | |
| Assets: | | | | |
| Segment assets | 285.4 | 178.1 | 94.3 | 557.8 |
| Liabilities: | | | | |
| Segment liabilities | (97.8) | (23.3) | (12.4) | (133.5) |
| Segment net assets | 187.6 | 154.8 | 81.9 | 424.3 |
| Group | ADE
2017
£m | AGI
2017
£m | Central
costs and
eliminations
2017
£m | Consolidated
2017
£m |
| Gross capital additions | 33.6 | 39.7 | 5.2 | 78.5 |
| Depreciation and amortisation | 23.5 | 39.3 | 1.5 | 64.3 |
| Balance sheet | | | | |
| Assets: | | | | |
| Segment assets | 352.6 | 530.2 | 76.9 | 959.7 |
| Liabilities: | | | | |
| Segment liabilities | (60.2) | (133.2) | (68.8) | (262.2) |
| 292.4 | 397.0 | 8.1 | 697.5 |
| Allocation of head office net assets | 3.4 | 4.7 | (8.1) | – |
| Adjusted segment net assets | 295.8 | 401.7 | – | 697.5 |
| Aerospace, Defence & Energy | Western
Europe
2017
£m | North
America
2017
£m | Emerging
markets
2017
£m | Total ADE
2017
£m |
| Gross capital additions | 23.4 | 9.3 | 0.9 | 33.6 |
| Depreciation and amortisation | 10.0 | 13.4 | 0.1 | 23.5 |
| Balance sheet | | | | |
| Assets: | | | | |
| Segment assets | 168.0 | 179.9 | 4.7 | 352.6 |
| Liabilities: | | | | |
| Segment liabilities | (30.8) | (28.4) | (1.0) | (60.2) |
| Segment net assets | 137.2 | 151.5 | 3.7 | 292.4 |
| Automotive & General Industrial | Western
Europe
2017
£m | North
America
2017
£m | Emerging
markets
2017
£m | Total AGI
2017
£m |
| Gross capital additions | 20.1 | 12.6 | 7.0 | 39.7 |
| Depreciation and amortisation | 23.6 | 10.5 | 5.2 | 39.3 |
| Balance sheet | | | | |
| Assets: | | | | |
| Segment assets | 292.3 | 153.2 | 84.7 | 530.2 |
| Liabilities: | | | | |
| Segment liabilities | (96.7) | (20.6) | (15.9) | (133.2) |
| Segment net assets | 195.6 | 132.6 | 68.8 | 397.0 |
Geographical information
The Group's revenue from external customers and information about its segment assets (non-current assets excluding financial instruments, deferred tax assets and other financial assets) by country are detailed below:
| Revenue from
external customers | Non-current assets |
2018
£m | 2017
£m | 2018
£m | 2017
£m |
| USA | 243.6 | 236.8 | 298.2 | 272.1 |
| France | 111.3 | 111.9 | 75.3 | 78.1 |
| Germany | 101.0 | 91.4 | 84.2 | 86.5 |
| UK | 58.7 | 51.9 | 91.9 | 91.0 |
| Sweden | 44.4 | 38.9 | 34.8 | 36.8 |
| Netherlands | 29.6 | 29.4 | 22.8 | 22.7 |
| Others | 140.0 | 129.9 | 147.7 | 134.3 |
| 728.6 | 690.2 | 754.9 | 721.5 |