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Food, drink and fibre processing

Wine and beverage producer financial model, built free.

A three-statement Excel model for a wine and beverage producer, built from your own figures and checked to balance.

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The business

Grows or buys grapes (or grain and botanicals), makes and matures wine, beer or spirits and sells branded products through distributors, retailers and export markets, net of excise and trade spend.

In short

  • 01

    Three linked statements

    Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, linked in every period.

  • 02

    Valued two ways

    Discounted cash flow and trading multiples, side by side.

  • 03

    Monthly to annual

    Monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or annual periods, for up to 30 years.

  • 04

    Checked every period

    A Checks sheet shows the balance sheet balances and the cash reconciles.

The sample

The sample, as Excel draws it.

Built by the same system and checks as yours: its structure and its inputs, ready for your own figures.

Annual · 10 years · Low detail
Wine and beverage producer sample model.xlsx
The How It Works sheet of the sample wine and beverage producer model

The sample describes no real business. Yours is calibrated to your own figures, so its results are your business’s.

How it works

How the model works for a wine and beverage producer.

  1. How it earns revenue3 formulas
    Product-range sales · All product ranges
    Gross salesVolume soldPrice to retailer per unit
    Trade spend (gross to net) · All product ranges
    Trade spendGross salesfrom product-range salesTrade spend (% of gross sales)
    Synergies · Valuation and analysis
    Cost synergiesRun-rate cost synergiesCost synergies achieved (share of run-rate)CPI index (1.00 in the first year)share of the year
  2. What drives its costs3 formulas
    Orchard growing and harvest costs · All orchard blocks
    Orchard growing and harvest costsCultural costsHarvest, packing and freight
    Product cost of goods and gross profit · All product ranges
    Standard cost per unitMaterials and ingredientsPackagingConversion labourPlant overheadInbound freight
    Product cost of goods and gross profit · All product ranges
    Cost of goods soldVolume soldfrom product-range salesStandard cost per unit
  3. What it invests in3 formulas
    Bearer plants (trees and vines) · All orchard blocks
    Orchard development capexEstablishment costs (planting year)Pre-bearing costs capitalised
    Bearer plants (trees and vines) · All orchard blocks
    Bearer plants at period endBearer plants at period startOrchard development capexBearer plant depreciation
    Corporate fixed assets
    Capital expenditureRevenuefrom statementsCapex as % of revenueAdditional planned capex
  4. How it is funded3 formulas
    Debt
    RepaymentsScheduled repaymentsPrepayments from an equity raise and the cash sweep
    Debt
    Closing balanceOpening balanceDrawdownsRepayments
    Debt
    Interest expenseOpening balanceAll-in interest rateshare of the year
  5. How profit becomes cash3 formulas
    Working capital
    Trade receivablesRevenuefrom statementsDebtor daysDays in period
    Working capital
    InventoryDirect costs (positive)from statementsInventory daysDays in period
    Working capital
    Trade payablesCash operating costs (positive)from statementsCreditor daysDays in period
What it covers

27 parts, each one tested.

Every part is a tested building block with its own checks: yours is put together from the ones your business needs.

  • CPI forecastConsensus curve with long-run anchor
  • Exchange rate (US dollar)Exchange rate by financial year
  • Operating expensesHeadcount build by function
  • Corporate costsFixed cost base indexed to CPI
  • Working capitalFull working capital
  • Income taxCorporate rate with tax losses
  • Corporate fixed assetsStraight-line over remaining life
  • DebtAmortising term loan
  • Dividends and distributionsPayout of net profit
  • Discounted cash flow valuationDCF on free cash flow to the firm
  • Multiples valuationEV / EBITDA multiple
  • Seasonal conditions and climate riskSeason type by yearA season factor that scales yields, carrying capacity, receivals, input demand (or, for ski resorts, snow and skier visits) for drought, average and good years.
  • Seasonal and maturing stockInventory daysFood and beverage stock built up seasonally or held to mature — cheese, wine vintages, spirits in cask, sugar and frozen meat — and the cash it ties up.
  • Key-metric summaryLast-twelve-month and run-rate metrics
  • Budget phasingSeasonal profile of twelve monthly weights
  • Covenant tests and headroomLVR, gearing and ICR for property
  • Borrowing base and security coverReceivables and inventory borrowing base
  • SynergiesRun-rate synergies with phasing
  • Discount rate (WACC)CAPM at target gearing
  • Distribution and logisticsLogistics % of sales
  • Orchard and vineyard yieldYield curve by tree ageBearing hectares and tonnes harvested from each block as trees or vines mature, alternate-bear and age.
  • Orchard growing and harvest costsPer hectare plus harvest and packing per tonneCosts of growing, harvesting and packing each block's crop.
  • Bearer plants (trees and vines)Capitalise development until maturityTrees and vines are property, plant and equipment (AASB 116) — development costs are capitalised until commercial production, then depreciated over the productive life.
  • Product-range salesDistribution × rate of sale
  • Trade spend (gross to net)Trade spend % of gross sales
  • Product cost of goods and gross profitUnit cost build
  • Advertising and promotion (A&P)A&P % of net sales
Key numbers

The numbers it tracks.

  1. 01volume (9-litre cases)
  2. 02net sales revenue per case
  3. 03gross margin per case
  4. 04A&P % of sales
  5. 05EBIT margin
  6. 06inventory days
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