Private-label manufacturer financial model, built free.
A three-statement Excel model for a private-label and contract manufacturer (consumer goods), built from your own figures and checked to balance.
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Makes food, beverages, household and personal-care products or apparel for retailers' own brands and for other brand owners (co-packing), under supply agreements priced at cost plus a margin with input-cost pass-through, where volume commitments and plant utilisation decide profit (uses the Industrials product-line and plant jobs).
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, as Excel draws it.
Built by the same system and checks as yours, on illustrative figures: every sheet as Excel draws it, or live.
Illustrative figures: the sample describes no real business. The live preview shows values; your model’s Excel file has every formula.
How the model works for a private-label manufacturer.
- How it earns revenue3 formulasPricing and pass-through · All product linesProduct sales revenueUnits soldfrom sales volumes by productAverage selling pricePricing and pass-through · All product linesAverage selling priceAverage selling price at the start datePrice indexSynergies · Valuation and analysisCost synergiesRun-rate cost synergiesCost synergies achieved (share of run-rate)CPI index (1.00 in the first year)share of the year
- What drives its costs3 formulasDirect labour · All plantsDirect labourFixed labourVariable labour (production × cost per unit)Maintenance · All plantsMaintenance costFixed maintenanceVariable maintenance (production × cost per unit)Energy and carbon · All plantsEnergy used (GJ)Electricity usedGas or fuel used
- What it invests in3 formulasPlant capex and depreciation · All plantsPlant capital expenditureSustaining capexGrowth capexPlant capex and depreciation · All plantsPlant depreciationDepreciation of existing assetsDepreciation of sustaining additionsProject 1 depreciation (from commissioning)from from commissioningProject 2 depreciation (from commissioning)from from commissioningProject 3 depreciation (from commissioning)from from commissioningPlant capex and depreciation · All plantsClosing net book valueOpening net book valuePlant capital expenditurePlant depreciation
- How it is funded3 formulasDebtRepaymentsScheduled repaymentsPrepayments from an equity raise and the cash sweepDebtClosing balanceOpening balanceDrawdownsRepaymentsDebtInterest expenseOpening balanceAll-in interest rateshare of the year
- How profit becomes cash3 formulasWorking capitalTrade receivablesRevenuefrom statementsDebtor daysDays in periodWorking capitalInventoryDirect costs (positive)from statementsInventory daysDays in periodWorking capitalTrade payablesCash operating costs (positive)from statementsCreditor daysDays in period
29 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
- DebtAmortising term loan
- Dividends and distributionsPayout of net profit
- Discounted cash flow valuationDCF on free cash flow to the firm
- Multiples valuationEV / EBITDA multiple
- InventoryWeighted average cost
- Key-metric summaryLast-twelve-month and run-rate metrics
- Covenant tests and headroomLVR, gearing and ICR for property
- Borrowing base and security coverReceivables and inventory borrowing base
- Sources and uses at completionEntry multiple with debt sized in turns of EBITDA
- Management equity and ratchetsFixed management share or option pool
- Exit valuation and timingExit multiple of LTM EBITDA
- Sponsor returns and value creationValue creation bridge
- SynergiesRun-rate synergies with phasing
- Discount rate (WACC)CAPM at target gearing
- Distribution and logisticsLogistics % of salesDistribution-centre, warehousing and outbound freight costs of moving goods to stores, customers or retail accounts.
- Capacity and productionOperating days × daily rate
- Direct labourFixed plus variable labour
- MaintenanceFixed plus cost per unit
- Plant capex and depreciationSustaining capex plus growth projects
- Energy and carbonEnergy intensity × price
- Sales volumes by productEnd-market production × content per unit
- Pricing and pass-throughPrice with annual increases
- Bill of materials and input costsStandard cost per unit
The numbers it tracks.
- 01volume by customer
- 02customer concentration
- 03conversion margin per unit
- 04pass-through lag
- 05plant utilisation
- 06EBITDA margin
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