Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the call of Camil Alimentos. We have present with us Mr. Luciano Quartiero, CEO, Flavio Vargas, Financial Director and Relations with Investors, and the team of relations with investors of the company. In case you need any assistance during the conference, please make sure that you request the help of an operator dialing asterisk zero. The audio is being presented simultaneously at the site of relations with investors of the company. Comments of the administration and this session of Q&A may contain forecasts and about future events that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and they may not come true or may turn out to be different from expected. Please, Mr. Luciano and Flavio, please go on with the opening.
G ood morning. Welcome all. As you have seen, we concluded the purchase of Silcom. It's a company from Uruguay.
This acquisition is a very small, and we see the consolidated numbers. It's a very important step within Uruguay. It double-folds our domestic sales in Uruguay. It's mainly exports and 10% is domestic sales. With this acquisition, we are double-folding our domestic sales. In Uruguay, it serves 800 clients, covering 500 and 5,500 clients, so our coverage and our distribution in Uruguay will be much ahead. 850 SKUs, 300 are the main ones. Sales, $23 million per year. $4.2 million in EBITDA. A growth in our results in Uruguay, very significant. We are very much excited with this step, and the conclusion of the transaction must happen in 60 days.
If you have seen the portfolio, we have six brands with La Abundancia, the brands, the house brands. Products for breakfast, grains, beans, chicken, peas. Once again, that's very much synergistic with what we are doing here in Uruguay. Having said that, I would like to open the floor for questions. We'll now start the Q&A session for investors and analysts.
Our first question comes from Guilherme Palhares, Bank of America
Good morning. Thank you for giving me the floor. Congratulations, first of all. I would like to learn a little more about the structure and the numbers of the acquisition. The funding for this operation and understanding from a capex standpoint, is it an operation that requires increase in capacity?
In terms of this category, looking at Brazil, there is a potential of Brazil going into this category of dried products. If I've made myself clear. Thank you.
Number-wise, the total number of this transaction we cannot disclose. We have a confidentiality agreement with the seller. $23 million forecast for revenue. $4.2 million in EBITDA. As Luciano mentioned, there is an expectation to have that company within our portfolio, and in a way that we can expand our operations, replicating the model that we have to make an effort to implement in Brazil. With the benefit of working in multi categories, reinforcing the whole commercial cycle, we have had a very positive experience in Brazil, and we expect to replicate that in the operations that we have overseas.
Funding-wise, it shouldn't take our leverage much further up. We should have this funding using the structure of local funding. Saman should do the capture of that financing in dollars for the financing of that transaction. It wasn't a major impact in our distribution. We have a capacity for leveraging that is very adequate for going on with the alternatives that we have. Now, the second part of the question, I think it will be very much a lesson to be learned, and how synergistic it can be to take this model of operation to other parts, to other countries. That is the pathway of growth we are looking at. From my part, I think I answered the question.
Our next question comes from Gustavo, Itaú BBA. Good morning, Luciano, Flavio.
The thing that I would like to mention here is the SKU, 850 here at Silcom, comparable to Camil or Saman and Santa Amália. Silcom is greater in terms of SKU, and I would like to understand that difference. Is it related to the new category, or we can use the portfolio? The main ones are 300. The new categories in line with the scope of the portfolio, current portfolio expanding into dried foods. We have a margin that ensures a safe purchasing. Is there a possibility of the expansion of margin with this acquisition or there isn't much elasticity thereof?
Gustavo, we are above 15%. You have a good idea of that.
We have the companies, we have the administrative-wise logistics and coverage will have a very positive impact in terms of, logistic freight. Portfolio-wise, goods, part of the sales have come from 300 SKUs, some of which are seasonal. Part of the job of the company is to always review the portfolio. There isn't a perception at this point clear, on how we are going to develop our portfolio further. Despite the bit above, 15% above the average of the company or with local operations, we hope for additional gains and the margin will improve. That's our expectation.
Thank you, Luciano, for your answer.
Ladies and gentlemen, remind you that in order to ask questions, you type asterisk one. If there are no further questions, I'd like to pass the floor back to Mr. Luciano.
Please, floor is yours.
I would like to thank you all for taking the time to participate here and reinforce two or three points. Firstly, it's a small step for Camil in terms of consolidated numbers, but very significant for Uruguay, for our local teams and local operations. We are doubling our size there. The team in Uruguay will not cause negative impacts with Santa Amália. With that, we have the operations in Ecuador as well. Camil has been preparing for that for quite a while, and Flavio mentioned that our appetite for acquisitions is still ongoing. We have financial and operational capability and capacity. On that note, thank you all and have a great day.
The audio conference of Camil is hereby adjourned. Thank you all and have a great day.