Die Post AR 2018

The Swiss Post Financial Report (consisting of the management report and corporate governance sections as well as the annual financial statements for the Group, Swiss Post Ltd and PostFinance Ltd) is available as a PDF and as a print publication.

Five-year overview of key figures

		2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Result ⁵
Operating income	CHF million	8,371	8,224	8,188	8,064 ¹	7,691
Generated in competition	% of operating income	85.7	85.1	85.8	85.7	85.6
Generated abroad and crossborder	% of operating income	14.6	14.0	13.7	14.3	15.5
Operating proﬁt	CHF million	803	823	704	718 ¹	501
Generated in competition	% of operating profit	85.5	87.0	93.5	86.7	72.3
Generated abroad and crossborder	% of operating proﬁt	9.0	6.9	9.1	11.4	16.4
Group proﬁt	CHF million	638	645	558	527 ¹	405
Equity	CHF million	5,010	4,385	4,744	6,583	6,732
Value generation ⁵
Economic value added	CHF million	207	169	122	102	– 28
Added value generated	CHF million	5,220	5,193	5,145	5,143	4,686
to employees	CHF million	4,108	4,074	4,034	3,989	3,866
to creditors	CHF million	57	69	64	48	49
to public sector	CHF million	79	94	118	63	43
to owner	CHF million	200	200	200	200	200
to company	CHF million	776	756	729	843	528
Jobs
Headcount (excluding trainees)	Full-time equivalents	44,681	44,131	43,485	42,316	41,632
Trainees in Switzerland	Persons	2,035	2,077	2,118	2,115	2,001
Jobs in peripheral regions	Persons	19,106	18,633	18,176	17,640	16,765
Turnover rate (voluntary departures)	As % of average headcount	4.1	3.8	4.0	4.8	5.5
Notice given by employer for economic reasons	Persons	168	78	84	161	152
Employment conditions and remuneration (CH and LI)
Employment in accordance with CEC	Full-time equivalents as %	89.9	89.6	85.6	85.6	85.2
Swiss Post CEC minimum salary	CHF per annum	47,620	47,620	47,620	47,620	47,620
Average salary for employees	CHF per annum	83,039	83,472	82,231	83,178	83,383
Average remuneration paid to members of Executive Management	CHF per annum	477,719	591,574	588,377	559,044	588,916
Salary bandwidth ²	Factor	5.8	7.1	7.2	6.7	7.1
Health management
Occupational accidents	Number per 100 FTEs	5.9	6.1	5.9	6.5	5.5
Days lost to illness and accidents	Days per employee	11.8	12.4	12.5	12.9	12.1
Diversity
Women	% of employees	48.7	48.4	48.1	47.5	46.3
Nationalities represented	Number	142	142	143	140	138
Women on Board of Directors	%	33.3	33.3	33.3	33.3	33.3
Women in Executive Management	%	12.5	12.1	11.1	20.5	22.9
Women in senior management roles	%	11.0	12.3	12.3	13.4	16.0
Women in middle and lower management roles	%	23.6	23.4	24.2	23.9	23.2
Demographics
Average age of workforce	Years	45.1	45.3	45.6	46.0	46.1
Resource consumption
Energy consumption	GWh	1,456	1,458	1,491	1,453	1,479
Energy consumption within Swiss Post	GWh	894	890	905	887	902
Renewable share	%	20.3	20.0	19.3	19.6	20.4
Energy consumption outside Swiss Post	GWh	561	568	586	567	578
Carbon footprint (scope 1 – 3) ⁴
Carbon footprint	t CO₂ equivalent	442,202	440,728	446,151	436,550	439,955
CO₂ efficiency increase since 2010 ³	%	12.1	13.7	16.5	19.6	20.4

1 Normalized figure. See the section “One-off item in 2017 – non-recurring in 2018” on page 37 of the Financial Report.
2 Factor = average remuneration paid to Members of Executive Management vs. average employee salary.
3 The rise in CO₂ efficiency is measured as the change in CO₂ equivalents per core service in the year under review compared with the base year. Each core service is defined by unit (consignment, transaction, passenger kilometre, kilometre, full-time equivalent etc.).
4 The prior-year figures for CO₂ have been adjusted based on updated emission factors.
5 Figures have been adjusted (see Notes to Group annual financial statements in the Financial Report 2018, Note 2, Basis of accounting, Accounting changes).

Financial Report 2018

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