Investor Presentation
Multiple Sources of Value Creation
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Revenue
0000 Growth
Growing with North American
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corrugated market
Stable US Consumer
packaging demand, growing
global demand
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Increasing exposure to
attractive high-growth markets
and applications
E.g. e-commerce, healthcare,
food service, "War on Plastics"
Innovating to provide
differentiated solutions to our
customers
Leveraging broad product
portfolio to increase our
Enterprise sales opportunities
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Margin
Improvement
Investing in high return
strategic projects to reduce
costs
Achieved $1 billion synergy
and performance improvement
goal met during first three
years as WestRock
Implemented multiple
published price increases
across both segments
Improved North American
Corrugated margins by 910
bps since purchase of Smurfit
Stone(1)
Over $200 million in expected
synergies and performance
improvements from KapStone
by end of FY21
Capital
Allocation
Long-term maintenance capital
(50%) and normal, high-return
capital investments (50%) of
approximately $1 billion per
year(2)
$500 million of strategic capital
investments in FY19
Strategic capital investments
expected to generate
approximately $240 million in
EBITDA per year once
complete
Committed to debt reduction to
target leverage ratio of 2.25x to
2.50x
Stable and growing dividend;
current annual dividend is $1.82
per share
High-returning acquisitions and
share buy-backs as markets
allow
1) Margin improvement of 910 basis points is through FY18.
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FY19 Capital Expenditures include long-term maintenance capital (50%) and normal, high-return capital investments (50%) of
approximately $0.9 billion, as well as $500 million of strategic capital.
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