{"id":13646,"date":"2021-03-30T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/03\/30\/ssy-group-limited-announces-2020-annual-results\/"},"modified":"2021-03-30T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T06:45:00","slug":"ssy-group-limited-announces-2020-annual-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/03\/30\/ssy-group-limited-announces-2020-annual-results\/","title":{"rendered":"SSY Group Limited announces 2020 annual results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left\"><b>Net profits drop 46% to HK$612 million with final&#13;<br \/>\ndividend HK$0.05\/share<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left\"><b>Adjust product mix actively; Strive for innovative&#13;<br \/>\nbreakthroughs<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Results summary:<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total revenue HK$4,261 million, representing a decrease of 8.1% y-o-y<\/li>\n<li>Net profits HK$612 million, representing a decrease of 46.1% y-o-y<\/li>\n<li>The Board resolved to pay final dividend of HK$0.05 \/share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a030 March&#13;<br \/>\n2021 &#8211;\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssygroup.com.hk\/eng\/global\/home.htm\">SSY Group Limited<\/a><\/b> (&#8220;SSY&#8221;&#13;<br \/>\nor the &#8220;Company&#8221;; Stock Code: 2005.HK) and its subsidiaries (together, the&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Group&#8221;) presents the annual results of the Company for the year ended 31 December&#13;<br \/>\n2020 (&#8220;2020&#8221; or &#8220;the year&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>During the year, the&#13;<br \/>\nGroup achieved a revenue of HK$4,261 million, representing a decrease of 8.1%&#13;<br \/>\nand the gross profit margin increased&#13;<br \/>\nby 1.5 percentage point to 63.6%. The Group achieved net profits of HK$612 million,&#13;<br \/>\nrepresenting a decrease of 46.1% compared with last year. During the year, the operational&#13;<br \/>\nactivities of various size of hospitals and various types of clinics in the PRC&#13;<br \/>\nwere severely disrupted by the epidemic and thus the number of patients&#13;<br \/>\nsubstantially decreased. Also, key product Moxifloxacin Hydrochloride &amp;&#13;<br \/>\nSodium Chloride Injection was affected by national centralised procurement. Sales&#13;<br \/>\nvolume of intravenous infusion solutions, being the major products of the&#13;<br \/>\nGroup, dropped considerably. Sales volume of the intravenous infusion solutions&#13;<br \/>\nwas approximately 1,190 million bottles\/bags, representing a decrease of&#13;<br \/>\napproximately 23% compared to last year. Facing significant pressure from the&#13;<br \/>\nmarket, the Group responded actively by further securing and stabilizing its&#13;<br \/>\nmarket, and laid a solid market foundation for the rapid recovery of the&#13;<br \/>\nintravenous infusion solution business after the epidemic. On the other hand,&#13;<br \/>\nthe Group took effective measures to actively adjust its product mix and&#13;<br \/>\nfacilitate the rapid growth of businesses in ampoules, bulk pharmaceuticals and&#13;<br \/>\noral preparations, so as to further achieve the diversification of the business.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The Board of directors resolved to pay a final dividend of HK$0.05 per&#13;<br \/>\nshare for year 2020, together with interim dividend HK$0.05 per share, total&#13;<br \/>\ndividend for full year of 2020 will be HK$0.10 per share, representing a&#13;<br \/>\ndecrease of approximately 9% from last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>During the year, revenue of ampoule products amounted to HK$863 million,&#13;<br \/>\nrepresenting a growth of 1.5 times compared to last year. During the year, the&#13;<br \/>\nGroup built a new production line designated for 10ml PP ampoule injections to&#13;<br \/>\nfurther expand production capacity of specialised ampoule products. In respect&#13;<br \/>\nof bulk pharmaceuticals business, through continuous optimization and&#13;<br \/>\nenhancement of production processes, preliminary production cost advantage has&#13;<br \/>\nrevealed, a new landscape is gradually formed with major bulk pharmaceuticals&#13;<br \/>\nand promising new products which are high value-added specialised bulk&#13;<br \/>\npharmaceuticals as coordinating development. Oral preparations business segment achieved preliminary results. After&#13;<br \/>\nimplementation of centralised procurement in the PRC, new products Cefdinir&#13;<br \/>\ncapsule and Prucalopride Succinate tablet were the first tender won by the Group.&#13;<br \/>\nThe PRC government has ordered the Group&#8217;s Abidol Hydrochloride capsule as a&#13;<br \/>\nbroad-spectrum antiviral drug through centralised procurement, which has played&#13;<br \/>\na positive role in this fight against the epidemic. The revenues of Abidol for&#13;<br \/>\nthe year amounted to RMB93.40 million, representing a significant increase of&#13;<br \/>\n13.5 times compared to last year. Export sales to foreign countries achieved a&#13;<br \/>\ngrowth despite the general trend, with increases in export revenue of 40.7% and&#13;<br \/>\nexport revenue of infusion solution of 10.2% compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Following along the lines of&#13;<br \/>\ntransformation, upgrade and innovation development, the Group continuously&#13;<br \/>\nincreased its efforts in technological innovation. The Group&#8217;s pilot-testing&#13;<br \/>\nand industrialised support project for pharmaceutical research and development&#13;<br \/>\nplatform have been handed over for use in May 2020, which will facilitate the&#13;<br \/>\nGroup its industrial transformation and upgrade. Type I innovative drug NP-01,&#13;<br \/>\nthe Group&#8217;s first innovative drug, has received approval for clinical trial and&#13;<br \/>\nits clinical testing research have already commenced. During year 2020, 6&#13;<br \/>\nproducts with 7 specifications, including Prucalopride Succinate tablet (1mg,&#13;<br \/>\n2mg), Cefdinir capsule (0.1mg), Rosuvastatin Calcium Tablet (10mg), Doxofylline&#13;<br \/>\nInjection, Ropivacaine Hydrochloride Injection and Moxifloxacin Hydrochloride&#13;<br \/>\n&amp; Sodium Chloride Injection, passed the Consistency Evaluation of Quality&#13;<br \/>\nand Efficacy of Generic Drugs in the PRC or were regarded as passing the&#13;<br \/>\nconsistency evaluation. During the year, 5 approvals for consistency evaluation&#13;<br \/>\nof injections have been obtained. Ciprofloxacin Lactate Injection was the first&#13;<br \/>\none of such product passing the consistency evaluation in the PRC while&#13;<br \/>\nFluconazole and Sodium Chloride Injection and Bromhexine Hydrochloride&#13;<br \/>\nInjection were the second ones of such products passing the consistency&#13;<br \/>\nevaluation in the PRC. The 250ml: 0.25g specification and 100ml:0.5g&#13;<br \/>\nspecification of Metronidazole and Sodium Chloride Injection were the first and&#13;<br \/>\nsecond one of such specifications passing the consistency evaluation in the PRC&#13;<br \/>\nrespectively.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead in 2021, domestic and&#13;<br \/>\ninternational economy will remain complex and dynamic. Affected by the&#13;<br \/>\nnormality under novel coronavirus epidemic, the pressure arising from external&#13;<br \/>\nfactors may persist and bring new challenges to the Group&#8217;s operation and&#13;<br \/>\nsales. Facing numerous uncertainties, the Group will continue to keep its&#13;<br \/>\ncomposure, uphold its development focus and do its best in maintaining the&#13;<br \/>\nmomentum in sustainable and stable development of the Group. The Group will&#13;<br \/>\npromote development by innovation, and improve efficiency by management. The&#13;<br \/>\nGroup will maintain the leading position of our major products in intravenous&#13;<br \/>\ninfusion solution market. The Group will strive to achieve recovery growth of&#13;<br \/>\nintravenous infusion solution segment, with an estimated sales volume of 1,600&#13;<br \/>\nmillion bottles\/bags, representing an increase of approximately 34% from 2020.&#13;<br \/>\nThe Group will continue to maintain the fast growth of ampoule injection&#13;<br \/>\nbusiness so as to make ampoule business segment one of the principal businesses&#13;<br \/>\nof the Company soon. On the other hand, the Group will actively utilize the&#13;<br \/>\nproduction capacity of bulk pharmaceuticals and improve capacity utilization to&#13;<br \/>\nlay a solid foundation for the listing in the PRC. Moreover, the Group will&#13;<br \/>\ncontinue to make progress on implementation of innovative drug evaluations and&#13;<br \/>\nconsistency evaluations. We will adhere to the new product development idea of &#8220;combination&#13;<br \/>\nof generic and innovative drugs&#8221; with development of as injections the basis.&#13;<br \/>\nAt the same time, we will take into consideration of research and development&#13;<br \/>\nof new types of oral preparation, bulk pharmaceuticals and medical materials. Meanwhile,&#13;<br \/>\nthe Group strives to make new breakthroughs in the research and development of&#13;<br \/>\ninnovative drugs, push forward the phase I clinical trial of anti-tumor Type 1&#13;<br \/>\ninnovative drug NP-01, and conduct preliminary research on anti-liver fibrosis&#13;<br \/>\nType 1 innovative drug AND-9, anti-epileptic compound QO-83 and anti-tumor Type&#13;<br \/>\n2 chemical innovative drug Miriplatin.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Mr. Qu Jiguang, Chairman and CEO of SSY Group Limited <\/b>said, &#8220;Facing&#13;<br \/>\nthe risks and challenges persisting during the post-epidemic era, we are full&#13;<br \/>\nof confidence on the future development of the Group. Leveraging on the&#13;<br \/>\ncompetitive edges on our scale, quality, lean management and branding in the&#13;<br \/>\nindustry, we will firmly grasp development initiatives, keep the tenacity and&#13;<br \/>\nvitality from innovation development, and push forward high-quality development&#13;<br \/>\nof the Group. We will deliver more solid development results to bring&#13;<br \/>\nsatisfactory returns to our investors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-03-30\/71456\/ssy-group-limited-announces-2020-annual-results\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net profits drop 46% to HK$612 million with final&#13; dividend HK$0.05\/share &#13; &#13; Adjust product mix actively; Strive for innovative&#13; breakthroughs &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Results summary: &#13; &#13; Total revenue HK$4,261 million, representing a decrease of 8.1% y-o-y Net profits HK$612 million, representing a decrease of 46.1% y-o-y The Board resolved to pay final &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}