Overview business areas

The Peab Group is presented in four different business areas: Construction, Civil Engineering, Industry and Project Development. The business areas are also operating segments.

Recognition of internal projects between business areas Construction and Project Development

The net sales and result in business area Construction presented refer to the contract construction in our own housing projects, in rental projects and other projects for business area Project Development. The percentage of completion method is used in the reporting. Net sales for both contract construction and the developer part of our own housing projects are reported in business area Project Development. The booked result consists of the result in the developer part using the percentage of completion method.

Presentation of property projects on our own balance sheet

Property projects on our own balance sheet, reported as project and development property, that are sold in the form of a company via shares the underlying sales value is recognized as net sales and the booked value on the balance sheet is recognized as an expense. For property projects reported as operations property or investment property the net effect on the result is recognized as other operating income or other operating cost.

Group functions

In addition to the business areas, central companies, certain subsidiaries and other holdings are presented as Group functions. The central companies primarily consist of the parent company Peab AB, Peab Finans and Peab Support (Shared service center).

Net sales and operating profit per business area

Net sales Operating profit Operating margin
MSEK Jan-Mar
2017
Jan-Mar
2016
Apr-Mar
2016/2017
Jan-Dec
2016
Jan-Mar
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2016
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2016/2017
Jan-Dec
2016
Construction 6,386 5,199 25,308 24,121 139 116 565 542 2.2% 2.2% 2.2% 2.2%
Civil Engineering 2,388 2,029 11,099 10,740 39 37 357 355 1.6% 1.8% 3.2% 3.3%
Industry 2,237 1,894 12,504 12,161 -23 -12 742 753 -1.0% -0.6% 5.9% 6.2%
Project Development 2,203 1,376 8,466 7,639 218 78 762 622 9.9% 5.7% 9.0% 8.1%
– of which Property Development 659 76 1,968 1,385 90 4 175 89 13.7% 5.3% 8.9% 6.4%
– of which Housing Development 1,544 1,300 6,498 6,254 128 74 587 533 8.3% 5.7% 9.0% 8.5%
Group functions  235 204 928 897 -47 -27 -142 -122
Eliminations -2,353 -2,010 -9,412 -9,069 -10 -4 -81 -75
Operative 1) 11,096 8,692 48,893 46,489 316 188 2,203 2,075 2.8% 2.2% 4.5% 4.5%
Adjustment for housing reporting 2) 55 -161 64 -152 4 -31 58 23
Legal 11,151 8,531 48,957 46,337 320 157 2,261 2,098 2.9% 1.8% 4.6% 4.5%

1) According to the percentage of completion method (IAS 11)
2) Adjustment in accounting principle for own single homes in Sweden as well as housing in Finland and Norway according to the completed contract method (IAS 18)