Philips ird Quarter Results 04

Comparable sales growth flat, with sales in growth geographies up 2%

EBITA, excluding restructuring and acquisition-related charges and other items, amounted to EUR 536 million, or 9.7% of sales, compared to 11.4% in Q3 2013

EBITA amounted to a loss of EUR 7 million, primarily impacted by charges related to IP litigation and the voluntary production suspension at the Cleveland facility

Net loss of EUR 103 million, compared to net income of EUR 281 million in Q3 2013

Currencies negatively impacted sales by 1.7% and EBITA by 0.9 percentage points of sales

Free cash flow of EUR 166 million, compared to EUR 122 million in Q3 2013

Started the process of creating two market-leading companies focused to capitalize on the HealthTech and Lighting solutions opportunities

Frans van Houten, CEO:

The successful execution of our Accelerate! program continues to improve operational performance in most of our businesses. We are very excited by the vast opportunities in the HealthTech and Lighting solutions markets that we will capitalize on with the creation of two dedicated market-leading companies.

As we manage through a challenging 2014 and given a number of incidentals, we are not satisfied with our overall performance in the third quarter. We are facing sustained softness in a number of markets such as China and Russia. We were also confronted by an adverse jury verdict with a surprisingly high proposed award in the Masimo litigation, which we will appeal. On a positive note, production at our Cleveland facility is ramping up.

In Healthcare, we were pleased to win four multi-year strategic contracts, thereby demonstrating that our integrated solutions are gaining momentum despite a very slow market. In Consumer Lifestyle, our focus on health and wellness products is yielding good results, as demonstrated by the solid performance of Oral Healthcare and Mother & Child Care, despite challenging conditions in some of our bigger markets. In Lighting, we improved the performance of Consumer Luminaires in Europe and achieved double-digit growth and market share gains in Lumileds, which helped to balance the decline in conventional lighting.

As a few of the near-term headwinds start to abate and our Accelerate! program continues to improve our operational performance, we expect our adjusted EBITA in the second half of 2014 to be slightly below the adjusted EBITA in the same period last year and we remain committed to our 2016 financial targets.

Q3 financial and operational overview:

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