1. Strong and sustainable business model and markets

• Leading positions in attractive and resilient markets with low volatility and steady growth

• Highly diversified customer base and partner of choice for food, beverage and pharmaceutical manufacturers around the world

• Benefitting from global megatrends such as continuous population growth, growing middle class, sustainable solutions, food safety & quality, and essential and affordable medicines

2. Sustainability leader

• Comprehensive ESG strategy with ambitious climate targets and a clear pathway to Net Zero by 2040

• Enabling the decarbonization of the energy-intensive food and beverage industry

• Share of ‘sustainable solutions’ sales to increase from 41.6% in 2024 to more than 60% by 2030

• ESG targets embedded in top management remuneration

• First company in the DAX family with a Say-on-Climate vote

3. Compelling plan for accelerating profitable growth

• Mission 30: GEA’s strategy to boost sustainable, profitable growth and to make a positive impact

• Ambitious financial targets:
- Organic sales growth CAGR of more than 5% from 2024 to 2030
- EBITDA margin to increase to 17-19% by 2030
- Return on Capital Employed to rise to more than 45% by 2030

• Growing the highly profitable service business with a CAGR of more than 6% from EUR 2.1 billion in 2024 to EUR 2.9 billion by 2030, driven by e.g. recurring revenues and performance partnerships

• Clear plan to generate COGS savings of EUR 120 million and G&A savings of EUR 100 million by 2030

4. Strong cash generation

• Disciplined capex policy: capital expenditures to be reduced to 2.5-3.0% of sales until 2030

• Active net working capital management: NWC/Sales ratio to be in the corridor of 7-9%

• Free cash flow expected to exceed EUR 4 billion in total from 2024 to 2030

• Target cash conversion ratio of more than 60% by 2030

5. Attractive shareholder return

• Sustainable dividend payouts: distribution of approximately 50% of net profit

• Executed share buyback of EUR 700 million in recent years, all shares canceled

• Share buyback remains option to use excess cash