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H.B. Fuller Company Investor Day 2025 summary

Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.
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Investor Day 2025 summary20 Oct, 2025

Strategic direction and market positioning

  • Focused on accelerating growth, elevating the portfolio, and leading the adhesives industry through innovation and operational excellence, with a shift toward high-margin, tech-enabled submarkets.

  • Expanded technology platforms from 2 to 32, increasing addressable market from 43% to 92% of the $80B industry, and now serving over 30 markets.

  • Portfolio has shifted toward higher-value, higher-margin segments, with growth segments representing 47% of the mix in 2025, up from 40% in 2020, and growing at over twice the industry rate.

  • Maintains a 6% share of a $56B attractive target market, up from 3.9% in 2020, with significant room for expansion in growth categories.

  • Business model centers on custom, solutions-based offerings, with over half of SKUs tailored for individual customers and deep relationships with multinationals.

Financial guidance and performance

  • Targets constant currency revenue growth of 5%+ and EBITDA growth at more than double the rate of revenue, with >20% EBITDA margin by year-end 2028.

  • Revenue reached $3.6B in FY24, with a 7.1% constant currency CAGR from 2020 to 2025 and adjusted EBITDA CAGR of 10%.

  • Q3 2025 results: $892M revenue, 19.1% adjusted EBITDA margin (+110bps YoY), $1.26 adjusted EPS (+12% YoY), driven by pricing, mix, and restructuring.

  • 2025 guidance: adjusted EPS $4.10–$4.25 (+7–11% YoY), adjusted EBITDA $615–$625M (+4–5% YoY), and organic revenue growth 0–1%.

  • Capital expenditures to run at 3–4% of revenue, with disciplined M&A, consistent dividend increases, and net debt/EBITDA target of 2.5–3.0x.

Operational initiatives and transformation

  • Project Quantum Leap will reduce manufacturing sites from 82 to 55 by 2030, consolidate North American warehouses from 55 to 10, and centralize supply chain management.

  • Enhanced automation, ERP deployment, and manufacturing centers of excellence to drive efficiency, reliability, and customer service.

  • Project Quantum Leap to deliver $75M in annual cost savings, +200bps in conversion cost savings, $35M working capital improvement, and $15M annual capex reduction.

  • Customer-centric improvements include a new portal, improved on-time delivery, and reduced lead times.

  • $150M capital investment planned for Quantum Leap, with $60M already invested.

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H.B. Fuller Company manufactures and markets adhesives, sealants, coatings, polymers, tapes, encapsulants, additives, and other specialty chemical products worldwide. The company designs, develops, and formulates adhesives for the nonwovens industry; blends and compounds resilient flooring adhesives; provides performance packaging adhesives; offers textile finishing chemicals to the weaving and knitting industries; manufactures rubber-to-substrate contact cements; produces hot-melt packaging adhesives that bonds carton board substrates; and develops structural bonding systems for various adhesive applications.

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