{"id":17222,"date":"2021-08-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/27\/ssy-group-limited-announces-2021-interim-results\/"},"modified":"2021-08-27T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T07:00:00","slug":"ssy-group-limited-announces-2021-interim-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/27\/ssy-group-limited-announces-2021-interim-results\/","title":{"rendered":"SSY Group Limited announces 2021 interim results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<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&#13;<br \/>\nprofits HK$276 million; Interim dividend HK$0.05\/share<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left\"><b>Continuous&#13;<br \/>\ninnovation &amp; scientific research;<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left\"><b>Whole-industry-chain approach development<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Result summary:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total revenue HK$2,443 million, representing a growth of 37.0%; <\/li>\n<li>Net profits HK$276 million, representing a growth of 11.6%;<\/li>\n<li>The Board resolved to pay interim dividend of HK$0.05 \/share<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 27 August 2021&#13;<br \/>\n&#8211; <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssygroup.com.hk\/eng\/global\/home.htm\">SSY Group Limited<\/a><\/b> (&#8220;SSY&#8221; or the&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Company&#8221;; Stock Code: 2005.HK) and its subsidiaries (together, the &#8220;Group&#8221;)&#13;<br \/>\npresents the interim results of the Company for the six months ended 30 June&#13;<br \/>\n2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>During the first half&#13;<br \/>\nof 2021, the Group achieved a revenue of HK$2,443 million, representing an increase&#13;<br \/>\nof 37.0% with gross profit&#13;<br \/>\nmargin 60.2%, representing a decrease of 3.8 percentage point compared to the&#13;<br \/>\ncorresponding period of last year. The Group achieved a net profit of HK$276 million,&#13;<br \/>\nrepresenting an increase of 11.6% compared to the corresponding period of last&#13;<br \/>\nyear. Amidst the normality under novel coronavirus epidemic domestically and&#13;<br \/>\ninternationally and despite the severe challenges brought by the unexpected&#13;<br \/>\noutbreak of the epidemic in Shijiazhuang in early 2021, the Group managed to&#13;<br \/>\ncope well with unfavorable factors arising from the epidemic with its endeavor&#13;<br \/>\nin production and implementation of various measures to ensure market support. The&#13;<br \/>\nGroup continued to promote its business strategy of scientific research,&#13;<br \/>\ninnovation and structural optimization, increased its effort in promoting the&#13;<br \/>\nformation of the operation pattern of integrated and collaborative development&#13;<br \/>\nin relation to the whole industry chain and diversified dosage forms from&#13;<br \/>\nmedical materials, bulk pharmaceuticals to high-end preparations. During the first&#13;<br \/>\nhalf year, the Group actively took measures to make new breakthroughs in&#13;<br \/>\nenhancing the market share of dominant products, and to accelerate the access&#13;<br \/>\nand growth of new preparation products and common bulk pharmaceuticals. Taking the opportunity brought by&#13;<br \/>\nNational Centralized Procurement as well as provincial and regional Group&#13;<br \/>\nPurchasing Organization Programme, the Group took various measures to&#13;<br \/>\nstrengthen the market-driven effect brought by the centralized procurement&#13;<br \/>\npolicy to continuously expand the market accessibility of the Group&#8217;s products.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The Board of directors proposed to pay an interim dividend of HK$0.05&#13;<br \/>\nper share for year 2021, which is unchanged from the corresponding period of&#13;<br \/>\nlast year. The total amount of&#13;<br \/>\ninterim dividend this year to be paid is approximately HK$151 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Amidst&#13;<br \/>\nthe normality under epidemic, the supply and demand in the domestic&#13;<br \/>\npharmaceutical market was undergoing a gradual recovery, and the production and&#13;<br \/>\nsales of the Group&#8217;s infusion solutions, especially&#13;<br \/>\ntherapeutic infusion products, was showing a steady increase in growth. During&#13;<br \/>\nthe first half year, the sales volume of infusion solutions reached 632 million&#13;<br \/>\nbottles (bags), representing an increase of 31% compared to the corresponding&#13;<br \/>\nperiod of last year. The revenue of infusion solutions reached RMB1,273&#13;<br \/>\nmillion, representing an increase of 19% compared to the corresponding period&#13;<br \/>\nof last year. Ampoule products have become an important growth driver for the Group&#8217;s injection segment as it has become&#13;<br \/>\nincreasingly rich in varieties with its production and sales gradually scaled&#13;<br \/>\nup. During the first half year, the revenue of ampoule products was RMB406&#13;<br \/>\nmillion, representing an increase of 53%, which continued to maintain a rapid&#13;<br \/>\ngrowth momentum.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In&#13;<br \/>\nrespect of bulk pharmaceuticals business, the domestic and international market&#13;<br \/>\ndemand was showing a recovery growth. After continuous optimization and&#13;<br \/>\nimprovement of production process, transformation and enhancement of&#13;<br \/>\nenvironmental protection treatment capacity, the production capacities of the&#13;<br \/>\nGroup were released rapidly, and the product advantages such as cost and&#13;<br \/>\nquality were further demonstrated. Solid preparations business segment has been&#13;<br \/>\naccelerated its cultivation and expansion. Leveraging on tender awarded for&#13;<br \/>\nNational Centralized Procurement, the Group gradually enhanced the sales&#13;<br \/>\nproportion of solid preparations from year to year. In respect of medical&#13;<br \/>\nmaterials, Jiangsu Best New Medical Material Co., Ltd. continued to strengthen&#13;<br \/>\nthe build-up of innovation capability and enhance the supporting capacity of&#13;<br \/>\nthe downstream production chains in medical materials, which facilitate the&#13;<br \/>\nimprovement of production capacity and market coverage. Newly developed&#13;<br \/>\nmulti-layer co-extrusion bioprocessing films for single-use system in liquid&#13;<br \/>\ndosing, has been put into industrial production and resulted in sales. The&#13;<br \/>\nproduct is widely used in the fields of research and development and production&#13;<br \/>\nof vaccines and biopharmaceuticals. Currently, it is the only domestic&#13;<br \/>\nmanufacturer of bioprocessing films in China that can replace those imported&#13;<br \/>\nand has broad market development prospects.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Upholding the innovation-driven strategy and&#13;<br \/>\nbased on the cooperation with several universities and scientific research&#13;<br \/>\ninstitutes, the Group promoted scientific and technological innovation and&#13;<br \/>\naccelerated industrialization of scientific and technological achievements by&#13;<br \/>\nestablishing a technology platform of innovative drug research and development&#13;<br \/>\nintegrating production, education and research. Type 1 new drug NP-01, the&#13;<br \/>\nfirst innovative drug type of the Group, has completed sample preparation, and&#13;<br \/>\nits clinical trial research has fully commenced. The Group will continue to&#13;<br \/>\npush forward the preliminary research on anti-liver fibrosis Type 1 innovative&#13;<br \/>\ndrug AND-9, anti-epileptic compound QO-83 and anti-tumor Type 2 chemical&#13;<br \/>\ninnovative drug Miriplatin. During the first half of the year, a total of 7 production approvals were obtained for&#13;<br \/>\nvarious types of products. At present, the Group has submitted a total of 61&#13;<br \/>\nnew product projects for approval, including 35 items for liquid and solid&#13;<br \/>\npreparations, 13 products for consistency evaluation and 13 items for bulk&#13;<br \/>\npharmaceuticals, facilitating the changes of Group&#8217;s production and sales&#13;<br \/>\nstructure with the accumulated strength of innovation results. The research&#13;<br \/>\nresults of products for passing the consistency evaluations was convincing. 15&#13;<br \/>\ntypes with 20 product specifications of the Group passed consistency evaluation&#13;<br \/>\nor were regarded as passing the consistency evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Looking forward in the second half year, as the global&#13;<br \/>\nepidemic is still evolving, the overall domestic and international economic&#13;<br \/>\nsituation remains complicated and dynamic. Facing the pressure arising from&#13;<br \/>\nexternal factors that may persist and bring new challenges to the Group&#8217;s production&#13;<br \/>\nand operation, the Group will continue to keep its composure, uphold its&#13;<br \/>\ndevelopment focus. The Group will also do its best in maintaining the momentum&#13;<br \/>\nin sustainable and stable development, promote development by innovation, and&#13;<br \/>\nimprove efficiency by management. Through the combination of the national and&#13;<br \/>\nprovincial Centralized Medicines Procurement, we will strive to do our best in&#13;<br \/>\nmarket access. The Group remains its leading position in the infusion market.&#13;<br \/>\nIn respect of the intravenous infusion solutions segment, we will ensure a&#13;<br \/>\nsignificant growth of its sales volume as compared to last year and continue to&#13;<br \/>\nstrengthen the proportion in sales of therapeutic and specialized infusion&#13;<br \/>\nproducts. At the same time, we will push forward the promotion and usage of&#13;<br \/>\nbioprocessing films in China, so as to strengthen the Group&#8217;s position in the&#13;<br \/>\nindustry and product influence in the field of medical materials. On the other&#13;<br \/>\nhand, with the goal of reducing costs and improving capacity utilization, we&#13;<br \/>\nwill actively cultivate and expand the bulk pharmaceuticals business. Moreover,&#13;<br \/>\nthe Group will adhere to the development idea of &#8220;combination of generic and&#13;<br \/>\ninnovative drugs&#8221; and will strengthen development of new types of oral&#13;<br \/>\npreparations, bulk pharmaceuticals and medical materials. Meanwhile, the Group&#13;<br \/>\nwill further develop the development and technology of bioprocessing films and&#13;<br \/>\nform core advantages of research and development of domestic bioprocessing film&#13;<br \/>\nproduction with comprehensive functions, sound system and leading technologies.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Mr. Qu Jiguang,&#13;<br \/>\nChairman and CEO of SSY Group Limited <\/b>said, &#8220;As one of the top 100 enterprises in&#13;<br \/>\nChina pharmaceutical industry and the top 30 best industrial enterprises with&#13;<br \/>\nChina pharmaceutical research and development product line, the Group will take&#13;<br \/>\nfull advantage of the market, policy opportunities arising from the positive&#13;<br \/>\nchanges in the domestic pharmaceutical market, we will firmly grasp the&#13;<br \/>\ninitiative of development, maintain the resilience and vitality of innovation&#13;<br \/>\nand development, overcome difficulties and tackle barriers, assume our mission&#13;<br \/>\nwith courage, and strive for facilitating the quality development of the Group.&#13;<br \/>\nBy virtue of the scale advantages, quality advantages, management advantages&#13;<br \/>\nand brand advantages accumulated in the industry over the years that&#13;<br \/>\ncontinuously stimulate innovation momentum, we firmly believe that we are&#13;<br \/>\npossible to bring satisfactory returns to our investors with stronger&#13;<br \/>\ndevelopment achievement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-08-27\/92150\/ssy-group-limited-announces-2021-interim-results\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net&#13; profits HK$276 million; Interim dividend HK$0.05\/share &#13; &#13; Continuous&#13; innovation &amp; scientific research; Whole-industry-chain approach development\u00a0\u00a0 Result summary: Total revenue HK$2,443 million, representing a growth of 37.0%; Net profits HK$276 million, representing a growth of 11.6%; The Board resolved to pay interim dividend of HK$0.05 \/share HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 27 August 2021&#13; &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\/17222"}],"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=17222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}