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E7 Group offers a diversified business portfolio across key sectors, providing investors with a stable and growing investment opportunity.

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Diversified business portfolio – ‘One-Stop-Shop’ with a strong reputation

  • E7 Group operates a unique, diversified business, providing products across four complementary business segments, enabling it to attract, retain, and cross-sell to an increasing breadth of local and international customers. 
  • Providing a portfolio of 40+ custom products and services to 10 industry sectors, produced in state-of-the-art secure facilities and delivered via the Group’s owned distribution channel, ensuring end-to-end consistency, security, and efficiency for customers.

 

65%+ revenue recurring in nature through long-term contracts, providing high revenue visibility

  • E7 Group’s marquee customers include multiple anchor government clients operating across diverse regions, providing high revenue visibility, long-term recurring business, and credentials that are critical for enabling further segment growth.
  • Stable, long-term revenue in security solutions and commercial printing provides capacity to diversify its product mix further and explore growth opportunities that deliver deeper value to its existing and target customer base.

 

Established regional leader in the high-growth security and educational printing segments 

  • E7 operates in attractive regional markets, with rapid GDP and population growth and increasing foreign investment driving elevated demand and enabling industry expansion. 
  • Increased incidence of fraud and identity theft is increasing public and private sector investment in security solutions globally, creating diverse growth opportunities for E7 Security.
  • Long-term, UAE-wide educational printing contracts benefitting from growth in population and schooling network, ensuring revenue stability in the commercial printing segment.

 

Industry-leading margin profile with continuous focus on margin expansion initiatives 

  • E7 is rapidly expanding in the high-margin security solutions segment, and actively exploring inorganic expansion into adjacent margin-accretive segments.
  • Enterprise-wide digital and organisational transformation, including digitalisation of internal processes and customer engagement, is unlocking value and enhancing agility, aiding Group-wide customer acquisition and retention.

 

Growing presence across Europe, Asia, and Africa, leveraging the UAE’s strategy location and trade relations 

  • E7’s reputation, particularly at the governmental level, is enabling geographic diversification and steady revenue growth across developed and emerging economies, including Africa, LATAM, and Asian markets.  
  • M&A strategy with clear investment parameters and objectives guides the targeted pursuit of inorganic expansion, with a pipeline of opportunities to expand reach in high-growth security solutions and sustainable packaging segment, where clear synergies exist.

 

Strong financial performance with a consistent record of growth and profitability

  • E7 has a track record of delivering robust financial performance, with a revenue CAGR of 27% between 2020-2023 driven by new customer wins that support long-term, stable contracts with key government entities. 
  • An EBITDA CAGR of 43% between 2020-2023 and healthy EBITDA and Net Income margin expansion enabled by targeted expansion in high-margin product segments.  
  • E7 Group’s strong cash position stood at AED 1.29bn at the end of 2023, providing ample capacity to invest in future growth and deliver returns to shareholders.

 

High barriers to entry in growing, high-margin security solutions segment

  • E7 Group’s experience in international security protocols and the evolving regulatory landscape position it well in a sector with high barriers to entry and built on reputation and prior credentials, supported by the UAE's reputation as a leader in security deployment.
  • Clear ambition to capture a larger share of the security solutions value chain through inorganic and organic growth, including expanding into digital identity management and exploring partnerships with system integrators and other synergistic security players.