Project 202211 Oct 2019 08:41
Project 2022, an initiative that will identify and drive efficiencies and improvements across all aspects of the business to enable the Company to deliver an initial target of $150-200 million free cashflow over a three year period. Project 2022 will focus on enhancing cashflow generation and reducing net debt to provide optionality to address the refinancing of the bond. The Company is not considering raising equity to refinance the bond.
Project 2022 is a bottom up assessment of the business and is based on the following prudent assumptions:
· flat nominal diamond prices over the three year period;
· the exclusion of any exceptional stones (defined as having a value of US$5 million or greater) from our Cullinan Diamond Mine; and
· an exchange rate of ZAR14 to US$1 in FY 2020, devaluing at 3.5% annually to ZAR14.49 in FY 2021 and to ZAR14.99 in FY 2022.
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Therefore the initial target of $150-$200 million of net free cashflow in the years 2020-2022 has potential upside in additional cash generation from improved rough diamond prices, a weakening in the Rand beyond the assumptions above and the continued recovery of exceptional diamonds from Cullinan.