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Metris Birth and growth
Bart Van Coppenolle
Founder & CEO
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Dimensional quality control or verification
Optical 3D metrology
Aerospace and automotive
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What Metris doesWhat Metris does
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1995: Technology Centric• Algorithm for reverse engineering
The birth and growth of MetrisThe birth and growth of Metris
1999: Metris acquires Micromeasure (DE)• 22 people and €0.3 million sales
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2002: Metris acquires Paraform (US)• 8 people and €1.3 million sales
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Software 2005: Metris acquires Krypton (Belgium)• 45 people, €7 million sales
2006, Jan: Metris acquires LK (UK)• 130 people, €28 million sales
2006, Jan: Metris acquires 3D Scanners (UK)• 7 people and € 1.8 million sales
Metris complete solution for Medium sized Metrology 2007, June: Metris acquires Garda (IT)• 11 people and € 1.3 million sales
2007, May: Metris acquires Coord3 (IT)• 67 people and € 11 million sales
1997: Productising Customer IP• New paradigm software for inspection
1996: Greater Customer Focus• Complemented with services for inspection
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Verification
iGPS
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Laser Radar
April 2005
• Metris acquires MetricVision (US)
• 15 people and $2.5 million sales
• Laser radar for large volume metrology
January 2006
• Metris acquires Arc Second (US)
• 10 people and $3 million sales
• Indoor GPS for tracking/positioning
Acquisition history for large scale metrologyAcquisition history for large scale metrology
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July 2007 • Metris acquires Virtek iLS (CA)
• 27 people and C$7.6 million sales• Integrator for Laser Radar / iGPS
• Metris acquires M-Cubed (UK)• Integrator for Optical CMM /iGPS
Metris complete solution for large scale Metrology
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Metris’ global footprint
Germany
Sales & Marketing Operations & Services
Belgium
Sales & Marketing Operations & Services R&D
China
Sales & Marketing Operations & Services
UnitedKingdom
Sales & Marketing Operations & Services R&D
Bulgaria
R&D
India
Sales & Marketing R&D
France
Sales & Marketing
USA
Sales & Marketing Operations & Services R&D
Japan
Sales & Marketing Operations & Services
Italy
Sales & Marketing Operations & Services R&D
Brazil
Operations & Services
Canada
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Blue-chip customer baseBlue-chip customer base
Automotive
No Single Customer Represented More Than 3,7 % of 2006 Sales
Aerospace General Industrial
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Metris delivers strong growthMetris delivers strong growth
2,5x
In mio €
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Sales EBITDA
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+32%
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Organic Sales Growth
EBITDA Growth
EBIT Growth 1,4x
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Metris entrepreneurial valuesMetris entrepreneurial values
Openness
Honesty
Boldness
Open for other people ideas and opinions Respect for people to support openness Try to cross your own mental barriers (dogma, blind spot,
politics, etc) Personal integrity Never act against personal moral principles Courage to recognize the inconvenient truth
Dare to be open and honest Communicate boldly (but with respect) Act boldly (but aligned to the decision making process)
Passion
Be passionate about your customer Persist also after failure (but be open to change your
mind on how to approach)
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Thank you - QuestionsThank you - Questions
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