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- Appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Sun Media Corporation
in May 2001
- Also Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of Le Journal de Montréal
since 1995
- Has been with Le Journal de Montréal and Quebecor for 13 years in
various executive positions
- Has worked in the newspaper business for over 30 years
- Before joining Le Journal de Montréal, began his career as a reporter
with the Sherbrooke daily La Tribune and founded the newspaper L’Hebdo
de Laval
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- URBAN DAILIES
- Québec (Journal de)
- Montréal (Journal de)
- Montréal Métropolitain
- Ottawa SUN
- Toronto SUN
- London Free Press
- Winnipeg SUN
- Edmonton SUN
- Calgary SUN
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- (C$ in millions) Urban Daily Group Community Newspaper
Group Consolidated
- LTM Revenue: $623.7 (74%) $215.6 (26%) $839.3
- LTM EBITDA: $180.9 $50.7 $221.1
- EBITDA Margin: 29.0% 23.5% 26.3%
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- Nationwide presence covering key markets offers national advertising
solutions
- Clustering provides significant cost efficiencies and opportunities for
bundled advertising packages
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- Note: Revenues and EBITDA exclude
discontinued operations
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- Selected capital expenditures with accelerated payback
- Digital-to-plate, additional colour capacity, automated inserting, new
system for classifieds in Toronto and Montréal
- Cost containment initiatives
- Consolidation of printing and administrative services
- Launch of new products and supplements
- Sports Xtra magazine, Votre Argent (Montreal), Le Journal de Sherbrooke
and Le Journal de Trois-Rivières
- Recent recapitalization
- Refinancing of bank debt
- Provides for increased flexibility
- Selected divestitures of non-strategic assets
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- Increase revenues
- Strengthen sales force and focus on selling by market
- Implement value-based pricing strategies
- Execute initiatives to drive circulation growth
- Capitalize on cross-promotion opportunities across Quebecor Media’s
platforms
- Convergence sales meeting each month
- Share content (Star Académie, Mannequin d’un jour, etc.)
- Maintain stringent focus on costs
- Continue to apply best practices and benchmarking
- Capitalize on benefits of geographic clustering
- Invest additional capital to improve quality of publications and
streamline production process
- Continue to invest in digital-to-plate, digital cameras and colour
capability
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- Toronto SUN
- Paid Circulation:
- Daily 203,000
- Sat 173,000
- Sun 365,500
- Ottawa SUN
- Paid Circulation:
- Daily 49,800
- Sat 44,500
- Sun 52,900
- Journal de Montréal
- Paid Circulation:
- Daily 266,400
- Sat 314,700
- Sun 265,500
- Journal de Québec
- Paid Circulation:
- Daily 100,100
- Sat 125,600
- Sun 102,100
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- Edmonton SUN
- Paid Circulation:
- Daily 69,900
- Sat 69,200
- Sun 98,700
- Calgary SUN
- Paid Circulation:
- Daily 64,200
- Sat 63,900
- Sun 96,300
- Winnipeg SUN
- Paid Circulation:
- Daily 44,300
- Sat 43,200
- Sun 55,800
- London Free Press
- Paid Circulation:
- Daily 93,100
- Sat 112,600
- Sun 66,000
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- Weekly readership of over 5
million which is very appealing to advertisers
(in 000’s)
- Publication Market Position Avg. Daily Circulation Weekly
Readership Year Founded
- Le Journal de Montréal 1 262.2 1,231.6 1964
- The Toronto Sun 2 210.5 2,002.2 1971
- Le Journal de Québec 1 96.3 345.3 1967
- The London Free Press 1 91.1 246.5 1849
- The Edmonton Sun 2 72.8 343.4 1978
- The Calgary Sun 2 66.7 362.3 1980
- The Winnipeg Sun 2 46.2 263.8 1980
- The Ottawa Sun 2 50.8 250.3 1988
- Total 896.6 5,045.4
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- Alberta 609,000 copies
- 2 Dailies
- 46 Weeklies / Shoppers
- 2 Agricultural Pubs
- Saskatchewan 35,000 copies
- 6 Weeklies
- Manitoba 115,000 copies
- 1 Daily
- 12 Weeklies / Shoppers
- Ontario 1,678,000 copies
- 4 Dailies
- 40 Weeklies / Shoppers
- 8 Specialty Pubs
- 7 Agricultural Pubs
- Quebec 1,278,000 copies
- 55 Weeklies / Shoppers
- 2 Alternative Pubs
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- Average weekly circulation of 3.7 million including 565,000 paid copies
- Seven paid dailies which are typically the only paid papers
in their markets
- Distributed in strategically clustered markets surrounding
urban dailies
- Provide efficiency benefits in production and administration as well as
bundling opportunities with urban papers
- Provide stable and consistent free cash flow
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- Urban daily newspapers covering 8 of the top 11 markets in Canada
- #1 or #2 position in each market
- Le Journal de Montréal and Toronto Sun are the 2nd and 3rd
largest non-national daily newspapers in Canada
- Ad space less expensive relative to competing broadsheets
- Provide comprehensive news coverage with emphasis on local news, sports
and entertainment
- Weekly readership of 4.4 million
- High exclusive readership – on a weekly basis, 52% of readers do not
read competing paid newspapers
- #1 in the 18 to 49 year-old demographic
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- More male readers, from 18 to 49 years old, than competition
- Advertising in the London Free Press, Le Journal de Montréal and Le
Journal de Québec on Saturday, and in the Edmonton Sun, Calgary Sun,
Winnipeg Sun, Toronto Sun and Ottawa Sun on Sunday, reaches
- 850,000 male readers aged between
18 and 49 years old
- 133,000 more male readers than competition *
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- Newspapers have maintained a stable share of total Canadian ad spending
despite increased
competition from other
media
- Source: Based on Television
Bureau of Canada compilation of various industry sources.
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- Largest newspaper publisher in Quebec and second largest in Canada
- #1 or #2 ranked daily newspapers in 8 of
the top 11 markets
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- Advertising linage market share has increased in 5 of the 7 tabloid
Urban Daily papers
year-over-year
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- Top 10 national advertising clients collectively account for only 5% of
total revenue and
7% of advertising revenue
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- Portfolio of assets has proven resilience to advertising slowdown
- Sun Media’s focus on costs has increased EBITDA margins and driven
EBITDA growth
- Proven track record
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- Continuously delivers industry-leading margins
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- Management depth with an average of over 20 years of industry
experience, largely with Sun Media
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- Financial Profile
- Profitable
- Immediately accretive to net earnings
- Dovetails with clustering strategy
- Significant synergy opportunities
- Purchasing savings
- Manufacturing savings
- Distribution savings
- SG&A savings
- New products
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