NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS l NOTE 39
39. Interest in other entities
39.1 Composition of the Group

Imperial is a diversified, international group of companies involved in mobility. The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Imperial Holdings Limited (the Company) and all of its subsidiaries at 30 June 2014.

The Group holds a majority voting rights in all of its subsidiaries. Non-controlling shareholders have significant interests in three of the Group’s subsidiaries. Material associates to the Group are MDS Logistics, MiX Telematics and Ukhamba Holdings. Details are provided below.

39.1.1 The principal operating subsidiaries of the Company and their activities are:

Subsidiary Place of incorporation Ownership interest (%) Nature of business
Associated Motor Holdings (Pty) Limited* South Africa 90 Associated Motor Holdings (Pty) Limited (AMH) imports and distributes passenger and light and heavy commercial vehicles, automotive products, motorcycles and industrial equipment in Southern Africa. It also sells maintenance and warranty products. Further details on the composition of the Associated Motor Holdings (Pty) Limited Group is provided in note 39.1.2.
Boundlesstrade 154 (Pty) Limited South Africa 90 E-Z-GO, a distributor of golf carts is housed within Boundlesstrade. Its market includes golf courses and estates as well as healthcare and hospitality industries. This subsidiary also houses associates and joint ventures which distribute Chery and Foton motor vehicles.
CIC Holdings Limited Namibia 100 CIC operates within the Fast Moving Consumer Goods Industry through agency agreements with blue chip manufacturers. Its service offering includes selling, merchandising, warehousing, distribution, debtors’ administration, and staffing and security solutions. The group has facilities in all the main centres throughout Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Mozambique and South Africa.
Imperial Holdings International Cooperation U.A. Netherlands 100 Business conducted by Imperial Holdings International Cooperation U.A and its subsidiaries comprises integrated logistics solutions and vehicle sales. Further details on the composition of Imperial Holdings International Cooperation U.A. is provided in note 39.1.3.
Imperial Group Limited# South Africa 100 Business conducted by Imperial Group Limited comprises, vehicle rental, motor trading, automotive parts, property investments, transportation, logistics, sale of motor components, panel beating and group services. Details on the businesses included are provided in note 39.1.4.
Jurgens Ci (Pty) Limited South Africa 100 Jurgens Ci is Southern Africa’s largest manufacturer of caravans, motor homes and specialised conversions. Their network of dealers throughout South Africa and Namibia, and exports to Australia.
Midas (Pty) Limited* South Africa 75 The Midas group markets and distributes quality automotive parts and accessories, D.I.Y and leisure products through selected channels. The group consists of Parts Incorporated Africa, the national hub and spoke distribution business, NAPA, the marketing co-operative to the members of the leading local brands, and the franchises Midas, Motolek, ADCO, CBS and Auto Care & Diagnostics.
Regent Insurance Company Limited# South Africa 100 Regent Insurance is a registered short term insurer of motor related value added insurance products, including extended warranties, credit insurance, paint protection, commercial vehicles, goods in transit cover and comprehensive passenger car cover. Regent Insurance operates in South Africa, Botswana and Lesotho.
Regent Life Assurance Company Limited# South Africa 100 Regent Life is a registered life assurer. Its products include credit life, funeral cover, underwritten risk cover and savings products sold primarily through dealers, financial institutions, brokers and affinity schemes. Regent Life operates in South Africa, Botswana and Lesotho.
* Further details are provided on non-controlling interest, refer to note 39.4.
# Certain restrictions apply to this subsidiary, refer to note 39.2.
39.1.2 Principal subsidiaries of Associated Motor Holdings (Pty) Limited, held directly or indirectly, are as follow:

Subsidiary Place of incorporation Ownership interest (%) Nature of business
Accordian Investments (Pty) Limited South Africa 60 Accordian is an importer and distributor of TATA vehicles and parts for South Africa.
Hyundai Auto South Africa (Pty) Limited South Africa 100 Hyundai Auto SA is an importer and distributor of Hyundai vehicles and parts for Southern Africa. The group has established a network of dealerships in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.
Imperial Car Imports (Pty) Limited South Africa 100 Imperial Car Imports has a 60% interest in Renault SA (Pty) Limited. Renault SA through distribution agreements with Renault SAS France imports and distributes Renault motor vehicles and parts in South Africa.
Imperial Daihatsu (Pty) Limited South Africa 100 Imperial Daihatsu is an importer and distributor of Daihatsu vehicles and parts for Southern Africa. The group has established a network of dealerships in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.
Kia Motors SA (Pty) Limited South Africa 100 Kia Motors is an importer and distributor of Kia vehicles and parts for South Africa.
KMSA Holdings (Pty) Limited South Africa 75 KMSA is an importer of all Kawasaki motorcycle and personal watercraft products for Southern Africa.
Uvundlu Investments (Pty) Limited South Africa 75 Uvundlu houses the Goscor Group, which imports, distributes and rents forklifts, cherry pickers and cleaning equipment, tooling, and powered products, and provides after-sales parts and services for a range of represented brands.
39.1.3 Principal subsidiaries of Imperial Holdings International Cooperation U.A.

Subsidiary Place of incorporation Ownership interest (%) Nature of business
Imperial Logistics International GmbH Germany 100 The subsidiary houses the Imperial Shipping Group. Imperial Shipping implement efficient transport solutions on Europe’s waterways. It has a fleet of inland vessels used on European waterways. In addition to dry cargo, tanker, gas and coastal shipping, the range of services includes container transport and industrial logistics.
Neska Germany 65 A specialist for intermodal shipments of diverse goods, Neska operates bulk and container terminals in the main industrial centres along Germany’s inland waterways.
Panopa Germany 100 A contract logistics specialist providing a broad range of services from the beginning to the end of the supply chain. Panopa services the steel, automotive and spare parts industries.
Lehnkering Group Germany 100 Lehnkering specialises in chemical logistics, offering transport, warehousing distribution and extensive value added services such as manufacturing and packaging on behalf of its customers. It has 55 locations in Europe and one in the USA.
Imperial Mobility UK United Kingdom 100 Imperial Mobility UK is involved in the commercial vehicle market, from light commercial to medium, heavy and extra-heavy commercial vehicles. It sells new and used vehicles and vans as well as related financial services, parts and servicing.
Associated Motors Australia (Pty) Ltd Australia 90 This operation retails Ford, Mitsubishi and Renault through six dealerships in the Sydney area.
Eco Health Limited Nigeria 68 Eco Health is a leading distributor of pharmaceutical products in Nigeria. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, the company also has operations in Ghana and Dubai. Further details are provided on non-controlling interest, refer to note 39.4.
39.1.4 Principal businesses of Imperial Group Limited

Business Place of incorporation Ownership interest (%) Nature of business
Logistics South Africa 100 These businesses provides a complete logistics solutions including transportation, warehousing, distribution and related value added services in South Africa.
Automotive South Africa 100 The Automotive business within Imperial Group Limited comprises of commercial, passenger and light commercial dealerships in South Africa. The franchise dealerships represent virtually every major OEM brand.
Car rental South Africa 100 The Car Rental operations housed within Imperial Group Limited comprises of three business units: Car Rental (Europcar and Tempest), Used Car Sales (Auto Pedigree brand) and Panel repair centres. This unit operates in Southern Africa.
Finance South Africa 100 Provides the treasury function of the Group.
39.2 Significant restrictions

The following table show significant restrictions that apply to three of the Group’s subsidiaries. The amounts disclosed represents the carrying values of total assets and total liabilities in the consolidated statement of financial position net of inter-group eliminations.

  Total assets     Total liabilities
R million 2014 2013     2014 2013  
The externally imposed capital requirements placed on the Group in terms of debt covenants on bank facilities requires that Imperial Group Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary, maintain a ratio of financial indebtedness to the financial indebtedness of the Group that is higher than the ratio of the EBITDA of Imperial Group Limited to the EBITDA of the Group. 12 397 12 089     13 142 10 340  
Our long-term insurance operation have regulatory imposed capital adequacy requirements. The capital adequacy requirement is an estimate of the minimum capital that will be required to meet fairly substantial deviations from the main assumptions affecting their business. At 30 June 2014 the capital adequacy requirements was R94 million and the ratio of excess assets to capital adequacy requirements was 3.3. 1 865 1 650     1 248 1 055  
Our short-term insurance operations are required to maintain, at all times, a statutory surplus asset ratio and free assets after spreading limitations. The returns submitted by the company to the regulator showed that the company met the minimum capital requirements with a solvency ratio of 40.2% at 30 June 2014. 2 534 2 698     1 494 1 536  
39.3 Business combinations during the year

Subsidiaries and businesses acquired Nature of business Operational segment Date acquired Interest
acquired
(%)
Purchase
consideration
transferred
Rm
 
Renault South Africa (Pty) Ltd* Vehicle importer and Distributor Vehicle Import, Distribution and Dealerships December 2013 60 65  
Eco Health Limited** Distributor of pharmaceutical products in Nigeria Logistics Africa March 2014 53 813  
Aggregate of immaterial acquisitions         33  
          911  
* Previously accounted for as a 49% associate.
** The Group increased its interest in Eco Health to 68% in May 2014.
Fair value of assets acquired
and liabilities assumed at date
of acquisition:
Renault
South Africa
(Pty) Ltd
Rm
Eco Health
Limited
Rm
Individually
immaterial
acquisitions
Rm
Total
Rm
 
Assets          
Intangible assets 223 714 12 949  
Property, plant and equipment 2 37 23 62  
Deferred tax asset 138     138  
Inventories 570 362 25 957  
Trade and other receivables 231 197 3 431  
Cash resources 273 84 1 358  
  1 437 1 394 64 2 895  
Liabilities          
Deferred tax liabilities   131 3 134  
Interest-bearing borrowings 452 100 28 580  
Other financial liabilities   69   69  
Trade and other payables and provisions 1 040 439 7 1 486  
Current tax liabilities   15   15  
  1 492 754 38 2 284  
Acquirees' carrying amount at acquisition (55) 640 26 611  
Non-controlling interests 22 (301)   (279)  
Net assets acquired (33) 339 26 332  
Purchase consideration transferred 65 813 33 911  
Cash paid 65 514 33 612  
Liabilities incurred   299   299  
Excess of purchase price over net assets acquired 98 474 7 579  
Paid after the reporting period.

Reasons for the acquisitions

The Group acquired an additional 11% shareholding in Renault South Africa (Pty) Ltd for R65 million, thereby increasing its shareholding from 49% to 60%. The acquisition grants Imperial control over the activities of Renault in South Africa and further diversifies the Group’s distribution portfolio. The remeasurement of the previously held equity interest in Renault SA had no impact on profit or loss and other comprehensive income for the year.

The Eco Health Limited acquisition is in line with the Group’s strategy to grow businesses into the rest of Africa, which is focused on the distribution of consumer goods and pharmaceutical products. The acquisition further complements the Imperial Health Sciences business and the 49% equity interest in MDS Logistics both of which have expertise in warehousing and logistics solutions in the pharmaceutical industry. Eco Health adds sales and marketing capabilities to Imperial’s services offering and will enable Imperial to offer an end-to-end capability to our customers in Nigeria’s fast-growing pharmaceutical sector.

The other businesses were acquired to complement and expand our distribution of motor vehicles parts in South Africa and the United Kingdom.

Acquisition cost

Acquisition cost for business acquisitions concluded during the year amounted to R17 million and has been recognised as an expense in profit or loss within the business acquisition costs line item.

Impact of the acquisition on the results of the Group

From the dates of acquisition the businesses acquired during the year contributed revenue of R2 894 million, operating profit of R73 million and a net loss of R19 million. The net after tax loss of R19 million includes the after tax impact of the funding cost of R9 million calculated on the cash consideration paid on acquisition, the fair value loss on the remeasurement of the put option liability of R16 million and the amortisation of intangible assets arising out of the business combinations of R27 million.

Had all the acquisitions been consolidated from 1 July 2013, they would have contributed additional revenue of R5 673 million, operating profit of R204 million and a net loss of R17 million. The Group’s total revenue would have increased to R106 346 million, operating profit increased to R6 316 million and net profit increased to R3 629 million. The net after tax loss of R17 million includes the after tax impact of the funding cost of R20 million calculated on the cash considerations paid on acquisitions, the amortisation of intangible assets arising out of the business combinations of R77 million and the loss on the remeasurement of the put option liability of R40 million.

Separate identifiable intangible assets

As at the acquisition date the fair value of the separate identifiable intangible assets was R949 million. This fair value, which is classified as level 3 in the fair value hierarchy, was determined using the Multi-period Excess Earnings Method (MEEM) valuation technique.

The significant unobservable valuation inputs were as follows:

  Eco Health
Limited
Renault SA
(Pty) Ltd
 
– Discount rates 17,5% 15,1%  
– Terminal growth rates 7,3% 5,8%  

The assumptions used in arriving at projected cash flows were based on past experience and adjusted for any expected changes.

Other details

Trade and other receivables had gross contractual amounts of R497 million of which R66 million was doubtful. Non-controlling interests have been calculated based on their proportionate share in the acquiree’s net assets. None of the goodwill is deductible for tax purposes.

Acquisition after the reporting period

The Group acquired 62,5% interest in Pharmed Pharmaceuticals (Pty) Ltd, a pharmaceutical wholesaler, for R148 million in July 2014. No disclosures for the acquisition date net asset fair values are provided as the initial accounting for the business combination was incomplete at the time that the financial statements were authorised for issue.

39.4 Non-controlling interest in the Group’s activities

The following subsidiaries have non-controlling interest that are material to the Group.

      Ownership interest held by NCI (%)  
Subsidiary Principal place of business Operationing segment 2014 2013  
Associated Motor Holdings (Pty) Limited South Africa Vehicle Import, Distribution and Dealerships 10 10  
Midas (Pty) Limited South Africa Vehicle Retail, Rental and Aftermarket parts 25 25  
Eco Health Limited Nigeria Logistics Africa 32    

The following is summarised financial information for AMH, Midas and Eco Health, based on their respective consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS, modified for fair value adjustments made at time of acquisition and differences in accounting policies. The information is before inter-company eliminations with other entities in the Group.

  AMH     Midas     Eco Health^  
R million 2014 2013     2014 2013     2014 2013  
Revenue 22 336 20 847     3 869 3 541     646    
Net profit for the year 1 248 1 856     159 170     16    
     Net profit attributable to non-controlling interests 161 221     41 43     5    
Other comprehensive income (411) 12             (22)    
Total comprehensive income 837 1 868     159 170     (6)    
     Total comprehensive income attributable to non-
     controlling interests
120 222     41 43     (3)    
Total assets 14 297 11 993     1 146 1 037     1 354    
Total liabilities 9 394 7 141     602 542     813    
Total equity 4 903 4 852     544 495     541    
     Equity attributable to non-controlling interests 606 575     140 129     173    
     Dividends paid to non-controlling interest 98 152     25 20     28    
^ Acquired in March 2014. Total comprehensive income for four months ended June 2014.
39.5 Interest in associates and joint ventures

The following associates are material to the Group. They are all equity accounted.

  MiX Telematics Limited MDS Logistics PLC Ukhamba Holdings
(Pty) Limited
 
Nature of relationship with the Group Operations include vehicle tracking and fleet management. Provides services to Imperial’s new and used vehicle dealerships. Strategic supply chain provider,
providing access to
new markets in Africa.
Imperial’s black economic empowerment partner.  
Principal place of business/Country of incorporation South Africa Nigeria South Africa  
Ownership interest/Voting rights held 25,6% (2013: 28,7%) 49,0% 46,9%  
Fair value of ownership
interest (listed)
R882 million*
(2013: R664 million)*
     
* Based on the unadjusted quoted market price at 30 June (Level 1 in the fair value hierarchy)

The following is summarised financial information for Mix, MDS and Ukhamba, based on their respective consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS, modified for fair value adjustments made at time of acquisition and differences in accounting policies.

 

MiX Telematics
Limited*
    MDS Logistics
PLC #
    Ukhamba Holdings
(Pty) Limited
 
R million

March
2014

March
2013

   

June
2014

June
2013

   

June
2014

June
2013

 
Revenue 1 272 1 171     289 44       13  
Net profit for the year 152 128     55 7     388 (134)  
Other comprehensive income 48 40     50 14     41 385  
Total comprehensive income 200 168     105 21     429 251  
Total assets 1 977 1 153     747 600     4 512 3 812  
Total liabilities 305 285     94 79     2 361 2 176  
Total equity 1 672 868     653 521     2 151 1 636  
Group’s interest in net assets of investee at beginning of year 249 216     263       767 614  
Equity acquired 24 7       253          
Share of total comprehensive 53 48     51 10     201 118  
Share of increase in net assets 113                    
Dividends (received) from or paid to associate (11) (22)             40 35  
Group’s interest in net assets of investee at end of year 428 249     314 263     1 008 767  
Reversal of fair value adjustments on Imperial shares                 (958) (700)  
Adjustment for differences in financial year-end 10 12                  
Goodwill 62 25                  
Carrying value of interest in investee at end of year 500 286     314 263     50 67  
* Listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange with a March year-end.
# Acquired in April 2013, total comprehensive income for two months ended June 2013.

Immaterial associates and joint ventures

The following summarised financial information for the Group’s interest in immaterial associates and joint ventures, based on the amounts reported in the Groups consolidated financial statements:

  Associates     Joint ventures  
R million 2014 2013     2014 2013  
Group’s share of:              
– Net profit 64 54     2 7  
– Other comprehensive income         (14) 4  
– Total comprehensive income 64 54     (12) 11  
Carrying value of interest in immaterial associates and joint ventures 341 319     18 37  

Disposal of associates during the year

For the disposal of Renault as an associate please refer to note 39.3 above.

The Group sold its 34,4% interest in the Pragma Group for R50 million. The pre-tax loss on sale amounted to R7 million and is included in exceptional items in profit or loss.