Good afternoon, and welcome to Camux Corporation's Capital Markets Day. My name is Sato Uttala, and I'm Communications Director at Camux. We're very excited today because actually this is Camux's 1st Capital Markets Day ever. Just on Friday, we published Camux's strategy for the years 2021 'twenty 3, and that's what we will focus on today. Our 2 hour event consists of 3 presentations.
We'll start with market trends and strategy presented by CEO and Founder of Kamuz Juha Kaul Yokoski. Then we'll dive into digital world with CDO, Mickey Ingeroinen. And the 3rd and final presentation is held by CFO, Marco Lehtonen, who will guide us through the financials. We'll have a Q and A session after each presentation, and we'll try and answer as many questions as possible. I really hope you enjoy this afternoon with us, and I think we're ready to begin.
So let's start. Juha, the stage is yours.
Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Sato, and welcome to Camux First Capital Market Day. Name is Joakal Legoski. I'm the CEO and Founder of the company.
Today, we will present Camux's strategy. But actually, I would like to start from the very beginning by telling shortly the background of Camux. Before Camux, I had 10 years experience from new car sales and from used car sales in brand dealerships. Based on what I had learned and understood about this business, I took a bold leap and founded the company in 2003 with my wife. The idea was simply to make living for our family.
In 2004, the 1st whole year what we had the company had, the revenue was €4,800,000 and profit €200,000 In 2006, we opened the 2nd and third store. As things went well, the business idea developed further, and we decided to open more stores. In 2011, we had 13 stores in Finland, and we started looking abroad. After the market study, we first the first store in Sweden was opened at the end of 2012. Our amortization grew, and we saw an opportunity to expand internationally.
We knew German market already as a purchased market. After studying it more, we entered the market in 2015. The growth continued, and in 2017, the company was listed in Nasdaq, Helsinki. Today, Gamox has reached a point where we have sold more than 300,000 cars. We have 78 stores in 3 countries, and our revenue is over €724,000,000 and EBIT approximately €31,000,000 And now is again the time to take next steps in Camux's story.
Again, opportunity is there. Again, we take an ambitious leap. Comstrong's ambition defines this strategy period. When we look at the market, we feel that the timing is right to accelerate growth, in fact, to take a growth leap. This is supported by our experience from Sweden and Germany.
That creates a foundation for Ambition's growth target. Although we still live with the corona pandemic and there will be different paces with the pandemic during this year. We at Kamux already look forward beyond this pandemic. Our vision remains unchanged. Gamak's vision is to be number 1 used car retailer in Europe.
The used car market is massive. It is 2x bigger than new car market in European level. It's stable even in economic cycles. It is highly fragmented, enormous amount of small players, most of them local or the site of new car dealerships. The used car market is attractive.
Kamoogues wants to seize this opportunity. This is an example from Finland. The same trend can be seen in the other countries as well. New car sales react to economical cycles. There are ups and downs, whereas the used car sales is steady and slightly increasing.
Used cars and new cars are a different business, but there is a connection since new car become used cars. And new car sales affects the availability of used cars. In European Union, the new cars registrations declined by minus 23.7% in 2020, affected by the global pandemic. The market size is huge, €100,000,000,000 in these three countries alone, the car fleet in these countries has kept on increasing during the recent years. Because of the market size, there is a fantastic opportunity to grow.
And because of the market size, there is a lot of room for different concepts and operators. This slide reflects the fragmentation of the market. Top 5 operators take rather a modest share of the market in every country. Consumer to consumer sales is declining. We can see a trend downwards.
We see a market cap, a demand for a branded retail chain focusing on used cars. In Finland, fiberglass payer take about 20% in Sweden, 10% and in Germany, only 2%. But the markets are not in a standstill. There are different trends and changes affecting the market. The pandemic had a different impact on used car markets in different countries.
In 2020, the market grew in Finland and Sweden. In Germany, the market declined. Germany is not as digital as Finland and Sweden, and there were lockdowns and strict restrictions during the year. Impact of the corona pandemic can be seen in total volume. Key trends 5 key trends affecting used car retail.
Consolidation is proceeding, and there are new operators entering the market. The consumer, the business purchase are more in focus. The role of digital is increasing and willingness to buy online increasing. Gamugs is well equipped to serve customers omnichannel or 100% online. Monthly fee driving service and private leasing are the most interesting of new models.
In fact, here I can reveal you that in March, Camux is implementing a pilot project. We will test monthly fee driving service in one showroom to see if there is a customer demand and how does the look from a business perspective. Different options or concepts are appearing and disappearing, none of them gaining a significant market share. We follow the market and development closely. OVERSOCH is not restricting us.
We sell what customer wants. The market defines price level for different cars. We are in trading, and we operate according to market parameters. And to serve customer interested in ecological cars, we have a Camux Green shop in shop concept. These new ownerships models are based on having a car, service instead of investments.
There are new ownerships models and shared mobility services appearing and disappearing. It seems that it's difficult to build profitable business concept in these areas at the moment at least. We often get questions related to electric cars and their impact on our business. We are not dependent on power sources or brands or models. We welcome alternative power sources and offer a selection of different options to our customers.
And last year, 29% of cars that Kamoaks imported to Finland were hybrids, gas or electric cars. Implication of these trends to Camoxt's business concept, Ongoing trends, changing market dynamics, increasing cross border sourcing, boosting brand awareness and products quality to improve customer retention. Rise of online, focusing on bigger stores to support online sales investing in data at analytics to improve processes and enable the further digitalization of customer journey. And emerging trends. New ownership models, adding potential new services and purchase methods to portfolio.
Sierra Mobility Services, following the development of different service models and keeping an eye open on market development. And electric vehicles, matching assortment focus with chasing customer demands. We are ready to seize the great fantastic market opportunity. To put on shortly, our strategy has 2 perspectives: to accelerate growth and to elevate scalability. And our focus areas, we aim to have seamless omnicellent service and the best digital purchase part on the market.
To achieve that, we utilize our strengths such as cross selling. Our customer proposition is twofold: attractive prices and trust. In developing new services, we have customer oriented approach. We improve the efficiency of our processes and industrialize them. We will shift towards fewer but larger showrooms, well, further development car inspection and other procedures related to cars.
We will continue keeping fixed costs low. Data and analytics guide our sales, purchasing and pricing. We utilize data in developing customer experience and online shopping. To develop our capabilities and invest heavily in our personnel, in continuous learning and career path at all level of the organization. I'm very happy to tell that growth means also creating jobs.
During our 3 year strategy period, we will hire 1,000 new employees. These are the cornerstones of Camux Concept. The business model remains unchanged. We will develop it to elevate scalability and accelerate growth. Regarding the customer proposal, our new strategy highlights the importance of trust.
I would like to mention 2 things regarding the operational model. Measures related to the strategy are banned to have a positive impact on inventory management. Low fixed cost model will be an important part of our concept in the future as well. We are ambitious. We want to accelerate growth.
We want to gain market share. Our ambition leap towards nearly doubling our revenue by 2023. Thank you very much from your attention. I'm happy to answer your questions.
What and how Camux is doing better than the other car retailers?
It's retail and daily business, which means that there is hundreds of small things what must do better than the competitors. If you if when we want to take market share as our as we can show to our background. But of course, there are how we use the data and analytics and our how we teach and learn our people, educate them our purchase team, how we use data in purchase. And next coming years, these bigger stores where we can handle and different type of roles to our employees.
How big percentage does Camusito take of €100,000,000,000 market?
Now we have only 1.7% from this the total our market share from this total market in these three countries. And of course, this is the next step in next 3 years what we told And we speak a little bit later after some years where we are going. But as we said that we our ambition is to be number 1 used car retailer in Europe.
Could you give some details on pilot test for new ownership models?
We tell it later when the product is and service is ready to come into market. But I think that just now is not a good time to tell what is included in.
Can you talk us through your ambition to almost double the sales in 2023?
Excuse me.
Can you talk us through the ambition to almost double the revenue by 2023? How to double the revenue?
We open new stores. We hire more people and also different roles. Of course, it means that most of the new employees are also salespeople. And these digital tools, what Mick will tell a little bit later, needs people that they serve the customer when they are on the journey to purchase the car. And there are many components, digital tools, but at the same time, grow bigger stores and more stores and more sellers.
Is your focus on all of Germany or more specifically, North Germany?
Why we started north of Germany? Because in Sweden, we started so that we opened many stores all over the Sweden. And when the team is quite young and not so experienced, It's hard to take care of all stores. And this was the reason why we opened in Hamburg area big Hamburg area these first stores. And we think so that now it's time to go to next area.
And of course, we are just the whole German market, but area by area, not in south part of Germany and north part, next coming the next area where we are starting business.
Can you explain a bit more the balance between hiring 1,000 more people in 2020 1, 'twenty 3 versus current 700 plus employees versus nearly doubling revenues by 2023?
Of course, 80% of our employees are salespeople, and it means that they are something rotation, and we need more people, but also higher when we lose some seller. But we think so that and we want that we grow faster than our employees, total employees' presentees.
Hiring new people, how much will that burden margins?
As we know, the Camux model, low fixed costs. Most of our employees are salespeople, and they have small fixed salary and other comings from the comings what were the company earnings. And I don't see problems between the company earnings and the EBIT level if we compare the people what we are hired.
Are you actively looking at expanding to new countries?
Not just now. We are happy to grow in these three countries as we as I mentioned that the market is so huge that we don't need just now new country. But next coming years, it's, of course, coming. But what is the year, we don't know. Now we focus our results to growing in these three countries.
What is the biggest risk for succeeding with the new 2023 strategy?
This is the people because we need so much people. And if we can't hire the right persons and educate them so well, this is the biggest risk we see. But at the same time, as I mentioned that we focus and put a lot of effort and money and investments to educate our managers to help our people do the good job.
How do you perceive AutoONE's ambition to aggressively expand to B2C Business with AutoHERO?
AutoONE is and AutoHERO is 1 competitor in the market. AutoONE is totally the different business because they are business to business, and Auto Hero is the online shop. And as we mentioned that the market is so huge that there can be many different concepts. And for example, if we compare in U. S, there is CarMax and Carvana and many others, and they have different concepts and only some percent market share from the huge market in there.
And I see the same like in European level, that there can be many different players.
Analysts compare Camux with CarMax in U. S. A. Is it a good comparison? And what are the differences
or similarities?
There are many things which are the same. Of course, focused used cars. Camux, 100% and CarMax, nearly 100%. They have also car services. What we don't have, they have fixed prices, and we don't have fixed prices.
They have stores and online sales as well we have. And of course, the market is huge in the U. S. The stores are, if I say that, dollars 100,000,000 per store or maybe more, but the size is very much bigger than what we have nowadays.
As you grow with larger showrooms, should we expect inventory turnover to improve over
I think it's all we think so that we can be more effective when we have bigger stores. And also, we can we have different part in these locations what we don't have nowadays. But in big picture, I think then that it's a positive thing compared to smaller or bigger stores.
Accelerating growth from 10% to 20%, what are the key bottlenecks or difficulties you need to navigate?
As I mentioned, that hire the right people and educate them. This is the hardest part of the next coming years.
If there is a recession, economical cycle downwards, what is the biggest risk?
Of course, it's if the new car sales declined many years, years after years, It means that there are not so many used cars on the market and the purchase coming very hard. It can be one risk. And of course, if the COVID-nineteen takes more time and people own things when so that they don't have they don't believe to buy cars and use the money. It is also one thing.
What is it that makes the customer choose Camux?
This is first part, the right pricing, this trust component and a very good customer service. And these are the components which gives the customer for us.
Regarding the 20% growth target, how should we think about growth in different countries? What kind of growth do you think you can reach in Finland compared to Germany and Sweden?
We don't give out market by market growth. We tell the total whole group how much we grow. And of course, we know that our market share in Sweden and Germany are lower than in Finland. And of course, these markets are bigger. And it means that bigger part of the growth coming in these abroad countries, Sweden and Germany.
To copy Camux's concept from Finland to other markets, what are the challenges or differences?
Swedish and German customers are as famous in Finland. They are interested in that the right quality cars in the right price and good customer service. And of course, there are small differences between the countries, for example, trust elements and how much the customer give the trade ins for us. If it's in Finland, 60% and in Sweden and Germany, 20% to 30%. And this is the maybe the biggest differences between the countries.
How can Camux be ahead of its competitors?
Excuse me, Camux?
How can Camux be ahead, so win the competitors?
As I mentioned, that there are huge numbers of players on this used car market. If I remember right, for example, in Germany, it's over 30,000 used car sellers. And it means that we must be better than most of our competitors when we can take the market share from them.
You have recently announced you are relocating 2 stores into larger spaces. Now that you are focusing on larger showrooms, will you be actively looking to relocate your smaller locations into bigger ones?
We have quite a short rent agreement. And when the rent agreement is coming to at the end of the period. Of course, we think town per town, are we happy with this location or choose the bigger one? And it doesn't mean that we open very big stores in very small towns. Of course, we calculate how much there are people and what is the best way to operate there.
But in the big picture, if we think that, for example, German's market that their the market is huge if we open, for example, in many, many, many years, 200 stores or 50 stores. This is a big change. We are we must think on the European level, not only in Finnish perspective.
Are the lower margins in Sweden due to large portion of the revenue coming from intercompany sales? Swedish margin, is it due to intercompany sales?
Yes. It's one part. And the other part is that, of course, integrated services in Sweden and in Germany is lower level than in our we are so much smaller one there, but we don't have so good agreements with a co operator, for example, finance and insurance products.
Will the inventory turnover decrease as you grow abroad and cars are not exported to Finland?
We want to buy cars locally. But if we don't if we can't buy so much what we want, it means that we must import car from the other countries and in the European level. And it means that it takes time, of course, 1 to 3 weeks. The car is here in Finland. But I don't see the big change next coming years in reasons about that.
Is the different amounts of trade in cars a reason for margin differences between Finland and other countries?
Yes. It's good business for us, this trade one training cars. And of course, we don't need to buy so much in Finland because trade is so much and a high percentage. And of course, these cars are cheaper ones with coming trade ins. And even the euros are lower level, but the percentage is a little bit higher, and it's good business.
And this is the reason why we also want in Germany and Sweden also take bigger part trading cars when we send a car.
How to increase integrated services sales in Sweden and Germany?
Same as in Finland. It's all the time, every day, teach to our sellers and sales managers and area managers how we can be better in this penetration. But at the same time, in the big picture, how good agreements we can negotiate with the cooperator what we have. It's 2 parts 2 components.
And what is the average annual employee turnover, 5%, 10%? Is it higher than industry in general?
We don't pivot out.
When would you expect to be able to have the same gross margin in Sweden or Germany as in Finland?
If we compare the car market, we think that the margin per car or the car margin, gross margin, it can be the same level when we are good. And the other part is the integrated services and how well we can negotiate and grow in these countries, how good agreements we have.
What kind of new integrated services do you plan?
As I mentioned, now we announced that published the first one. And next coming year is coming more, but of course, we don't tell what we have in our pipeline.
What is the difference in inventory turnover between Finland, Sweden and Germany?
We don't announce it, but there are not big differences between countries when the business drive the right way.
How does your inventory turnover compare to your local competitors?
It is in all countries, average, the same level, 70 to 90 days. And we have, for example, Q4, it was 47 days. But of course, we don't know exactly some one local competitor's turnover. But average, we are very much faster than the average on the markets.
Your Finnish competitor, Saka, is growing faster than Camux. Are you worried about that?
Of course, Saka is one competitor in this Finnish market. And in Sweden, our other ones and in Germany, our third one, but they work only into one country. And of course, we must it's giving for us speed also.
You had a change in key personnel in Germany and speed. Is it not dangerous to step up growth?
Not yet. We think so that we have good country directors in Germany, very experienced guy, Alexander Ammann, and his background is last 30 years in car business and the end used car business. And we are happy very happy with him. And Tommy Iskomaki started just 1st March in Sweden. And Tommy visited in 2016 'seventeen, 1.5 year in Sweden and after that, near 3 years in Finland.
And Tommy is very experienced and good track record with him. And we believe Tom.
Is it right to think that bigger stores need less sales persons per store and more so called store helpers who clean cars and so on, which is also cheaper workforce?
We don't yet open this what kind of persons there are and what is the mix between these. And we think that it's we have also competitors, and this is the better that we know what we do.
Can you tell me more about being better than competitors?
Maybe there is coming after Mikki and Markus' presentation because there is coming more things what helps to understand the Gamut's business and concepts.
We have questions regarding investments and some financials, which I'm going to say to our CFO. So I think we'll stop for now with the questions and then give the floor to Mickey.
Thank you very much. Welcome, Mickey, to stage.
All right. Good afternoon to everyone in the audience. My name is Mikki Inkerhoinen. So I'm the e commerce guy. So I'm responsible of digital tools development Car buying has been relatively digital for a long time.
Cars are such sizable purchases, of course, for any consumer that the information seeking phase quite naturally is often much more extensive than regarding purchases done more frequently or lesser in value. For the past 10 to 15 years, most consumers have already turned to online aggregators and portals to gain information about the cars. But what we now know is rapidly changing is how early into the consumer purchasing journey we can place our help and expertise and how ready also the customers are for actual e commerce even with used cars. Even as our products are not the easiest ones to sell online, it does increasingly happen fueled by our own actions regarding transparency about the condition and history of the car, accurate pricing and policies increasing trust as well as new services such as the aforementioned monthly price driving. Our digital footprint is increasing quite rapidly.
We can currently be found from all the relevant portals and aggregators in the 3 countries we operate in. But however, for us, it is essential to continue to develop our own channels in terms of volumes and, of course, in terms of service. It is worthwhile to notice that our own channels, rather than in the portals, we can offer a wide variety of methods to interact with the customer as well as the key features for reserving and buying cars online. In our largest market, Finland, we're already the largest dealer website. In Sweden and Germany, we're, of course, working very heavily towards further development of traffic.
What actually makes Gamux a very digitally capable platform for online sales is a long history of having a fulfillment process already geared towards the digital customer. We can deliver cars from all of our stores, always seeking to fulfill the customer promise of having a very large assortment, being able to match the customers' wishes while maximizing the use of our assortment and stock turnover. Thinking from an e commerce point of view, we instead of stores, not only have fulfillment centers or shipping warehouses within the 3 operating markets, but we also can deliver across the markets. The numbers are already high. In Finland, 36% of the sales cases last year were click and collect or cross sales, if you will, so delivered from afar to the customer.
And as you can see from the low amount of in store only buyers, the stores are very, very important for us in terms of fulfilling the service, but not, of course, in the traditional sense of being positioned primarily for the needs of the walk in customers. The focus in our digital development is 2 fold. On the one hand, we're creating the best online customer journey. And to enable this and more scalability in our operations, we're constantly improving and streamlining the core processes we have. Nowadays, this often surfaces as more and more digital services visible for the customer.
If we first look at the consumer journey, our mission is to make sure that Camux or Camux employees are with the customer more and more already early in the research and consideration phases. In order to ensure the best service and a solid experience, the first contact is to happen through, for example, assisted selling online through chat, phone or video. Then again, some of the well maybe less well known elements might be also very integral for the customer experience, but in very, very minute ways, like being able to get prequalified for finance online, removing the need to discuss your financial situation with a seller in store, something which is, especially in Finland, important where toting is not always held in high value. As I said, we're already capable of handling the buying process end to end online. And then again, when it comes to deliveries, our process enables the customer to receive a car quickly, whether it's currently in your hometown on the other side of the country or even from another country altogether.
The actual improvements to our customers' journey happen with improving efficiency, quality and transparency with the core process improvements. The car selling process includes a vast multitude of phases. It's very complex, enabling the customer to actually find and get what he or she wants and at the same time, enabling Camux to run the operation efficiently. Examples of such items, improving customer experience while improving the operational efficiency range from demand forecasting to meet the customers' needs in terms of the assortment to marketing, showcasing the assortment in the arenas where the customer can be first met and pricing, keeping the product at an affordable price, also at the same time meeting the Camux brand promise. Within the internal processes, we've also already been able to significantly reduce manual work and paper processes, for example, in title and registration.
This work continues and it must continue, for example, with further introduction of electronic signatures. As Mr. Karl Eikoski just said, this month, we're also piloting with monthly price driving. We have really identified a clear change in the way people want to see the purchase, more of as a service rather than an investment. The store network.
Our store network is very much relevant for digital online sales as well. The stores at Camux feature not only as stores in the classic sense, but also as purchase and inspection locations, storage locations and delivery centers, all of them cornerstones for an online business. In the future, we will have perhaps fewer stores per market area, but significantly larger in size and located at the outskirts of biggest cities. This provides us with an opportunity towards, of course, a leaner and a more optimized network, but it also enables having more centralized refurbishment plans to support the seamless omnichannel journey. The online sales will not replace the store network as people still often want to see the car before making final decision.
And as said, the stores do have an important part of the digital sales process as well. Handling, maybe you can think of a lot of the internal processes. And those internal processes are such that we need them in order to, for example, get the cars online, including photography and modeling, for example. Strengthening the foothold regarding physical locations is integral,
but of
course, the strategic interest lies with data. Internal, our own data is key. And having sold over 300,000 cars, we have an excellent grip on, for example, the service and repair costs of any given make or model after sales. This aids us to predict problems and after costs better than others. Then again, external data can be obtained from multiple sources, but the trick is how to integrate such data seamlessly in order to aid the sellers and purchasers towards better sales performance, more accurate pricing, resulting in faster stock turnover, better car placements and from the marketing perspective, for example, more efficient routine in terms of balancing the investment per vehicle according to the interest each individual vehicle has.
On the other hand, bringing more of the data visible to the consumers, for example, with public honest condition estimates or data from the official vehicle registries help us to keep our customer promise, both regarding the affordable pricing and being trustworthy. I think this is where it all kind of starts to come together. At the same time, helping the customer on the customer journey earlier than before, improving the internal process with more data, eliminating manual work and streamlining the store network in terms of, yes, physical locations, but also the stock composition, plus adding things like new services, monthly price driving as an example. All of these improvements or all of the improvements we make are in the end of the day measured with customer service success alone. Our brand is already very well known for affordable prices.
That's the cornerstone. During this strategy period, we are lifting up the brand, especially on the trust dimension, while still strongly, strictly maintaining the pricing positions. To put it simply, actually improving the brand image regarding trust is also a critical task in strengthening our capabilities to do online car sales. The message we're giving out is not it's really not only a message. Camux is affordable.
We can prove it. And we are trustworthy. We prove this every day. Success in the aforementioned is measured with sales, of course, and with customer satisfaction. We measure customer satisfaction for every single deal we make and with weekly consumer panels tracking our brand.
We are very proud of the measured customer satisfaction we have. We're ever so happy to help our customers in their needs for mobility every day. If you look at our competitive advantages, having a high performance organization, which also increasingly is employing digital talent in the fields of software development, data analytics and digital marketing. Then again, supporting sales and purchasing with precise on demand data and better processes. It's providing the company with the elevated scalability, but at the same time also the customer with the best customer experience.
Thank you for listening this presentation. It was a pleasure talking to you today. I'm now open for any and all questions. Thank you.
So if you have questions related to online, e commerce, digital kind of issues, so please put them through. What do you think? Is there a price range which is more suitable for online sales in used cars?
Yes. There definitely is. According to the sales statistics we have, the sweet spot seems to be a pretty well known brand, let's say, a Volkswagen Golf or something similar, ranging from a price range starting at €5,000 but pretty much limited to somewhere around €15,000 So I would say that regarding our current e commerce deals, they have been on the lower side of the average price we normally have in stores. But I consider that to be quite natural, And especially the first part, the cars being kind of brand and model wise, something to which you kind of already identified to is rather important regarding the online part. What are the biggest
obstacles on the online purchase path?
I think the biggest obstacles have been that it hasn't been that easy to find the connection between what you see online and then what happens in the stores. So building the bridge would, at the same time, be the biggest obstacle in terms of walking the customer through the funnel to wherever the magic actually happens. But at the same time, that is exactly the thing which we want to excel in.
How do you see card sales changing in the future? How many percentages of the sales is made completely digitally?
Although I think that is a good question, we find it rather irrelevant because our perspective on the matter is such that we want to actually employ the very efficient sales guy to be involved in the sales process online anyhow, which means that the importance of if the fulfillment or the signature event happens in the online world or in the on the physical world, I don't I wouldn't see a big difference there because the fulfillment process for both cases is then again rather similar because it includes very similar elements in either sides of the table. We still need to receive the car through a logistics process. We need to do some refurbishment for the car. There's title and registration, taxation related issues. And it's a quite intensive process, even though it would be kind of on the sales side handled in a pure e commerce perspective.
Partly towards that world, we're also walking with the bigger stores in the future network.
Will Camux be able to use data to focus procurement to hot cars and reduce inventory turnover with predicting trends and with data?
That is a very, very good question. And I think the answer to that question is quite well written in the question itself. So yes, that would be one of the cornerstones of our data analytics development together with pricing projects. Pointing the purchases is one thing. But then again, in our business, it is good to remember that we are very much in a trading business, as Mr.
Karl Leikoski said. We are willing to pretty much buy any car in the market as long as we can find a correct price for that car together with the customer selling it. For example, in Finland, EBA, a majority of our purchases are handled as trade ins. And when it comes to trade ins, that question is not that relevant because we are looking at the car in specific which the customer is offering to us instead of being free to move on the market. But of course, the latter part of it is super interesting.
Will you implement 360 degree pictures and generally higher quality pictures?
Yes.
Improving the quality of images, that's integral for developing any sales we have. We have already started to increase the amount of 360 images radically. We have a number of locations in Finland capable of doing that, but we will expand this further. We're very, very interested not only the opportunity the 360 imaging provides us, but also the part where the setup, the actual physical device taking the pictures, can help us improving the quality of the still pictures as well so that we have a very, very uniform way of taking the pictures and showcasing the products to the customers.
Will you need apps or websites only the right strategy?
Can you repeat the question, please?
Would you need apps, mobile apps? Or is it only website strategy?
I consider a mobile website well built and a app to be pretty much the same thing unless we can kind of have something in the phone features which would the customer. We do not currently plan to have a dedicated app, but of course, that's among the possibilities our toolkit might have in the future.
Can you describe Camux Core target consumer?
Looking at the assortment, we sell cars from all price ranges. We are very strong and even as low as 5,000 range cars, but we do have a lot of stock also in the plus 50000 region. So there's plenty to choose from for all target groups. But if you think about Camux as a brand, of course, our wish is to be easily approachable. We're the everyday partner for your mobility needs.
And thus, I'm a bit hesitant to kind of give you very strong boundaries regarding the target group. But everyday people is the ones we definitely would like to serve.
Easiness of purchase is one of the most important factors in e commerce. What kind of means you have considered to improve the easiness of online purchasing?
A car by nature is definitely not easy to purchase. The vast amount of technical information provided for the customer is kind of a good example where a lot of kind of the consumer connections might be rather difficult. We intend to display the difficult technical data in more understandable formats, display official vehicle registry data, tax data in understandable ways, explaining to the customer in a better and a fresh way about the total costs of ownership when it comes to the vehicles. So I think that is a good example on how we need to also approach the kind of simplifying car buying definitely in both elements, physical and online.
Do you have plans to utilize VR, for example, on introduction videos of cars when the technology becomes more mature?
That is rather exciting. We already have a very, very good concept around using basic tools such as WhatsApp video conferencing showcase the cars. That has actually been very important throughout the COVID-nineteen crisis to be able to connect with the customers and showcase the assortment in new and fresh ways, that would definitely be of an interest to Camux.
Okay. That finishes our digital questions, and then we are ready for CFO, Marco.
Thank you very much. Have a great afternoon, everyone.
Thank you, Micki. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Marco Lettrin, and I'm Kamuk's CFO. Juha has told you about our strategic direction, and Micki told you about our very exciting digital operations. And now I'm going to tell you what this all mean for our shareholders, for our owners.
Before we talk about the future, let's shortly take a look at Camux past. Camux has a strong track record growing organically. If you look from year 2007, the revenue was roughly €19,000,000 and 2020, it was roughly €724,000,000 So for the time period 2014 to 20 20, So the compounded average growth rate was 26%. And this growth has been almost fully organic. We had just one small acquisition in 2020.
Also, the amount of cars sold has been rapidly growing. In 2007, we sold roughly 1800 cars. And at the end of the during the last year, 2020, we sold roughly 60,700 cars. And also, the amount of showrooms have been growing. In 2,007, we had 4 showrooms.
And at the end of last year, we had 78 showrooms in 3 countries. Growth has been also very profitable and have created value for our shareholders. Our return on equity in the recent years have been around plusminus25%, and that is among the top 15% in Helsinki Stock Exchange. Our earnings per share have been also growing. In 2016, it was €0.29 per share, and in 2020, it was $0.58 per share.
Our dividend has been also growing. In 2016, it was 0 point 0 $0.06 per share and 2020 dividend proposal is 0 point 24 dollars per share. Dividend proposal for 2020 reflects our growth ambition defined in our new strategy. Let's look shortly how actually 2020 was looking compared to the other years. 2020 was very exceptional year.
Between 2016 to 2019, Caboz has been growing approximately 12% to 25% a year. Despite the corona pandemic restrictions, our revenue was growing last year 10%, and our adjusted operating profit was near all time high 4.2%. Despite the rapid growth, Gamux has been also able to generate strong cash flow from the operations. In 2020, nearly €10,200,000 and Gamux's balance sheet is strong. Equity ratio declined slightly in 2019 due to IFRS 16 implementation but was again in 2020 at good level being 50.1%.
Kamuk's strong financial position gives us an excellent basis to launch our growth strategy. Integrated Services, financing, insurance and Camux Plus are very important for our business. Share from the revenue has been growing from 2016, 4.8% to 5.1% in 2020. In integrated services, scale is very important. The bigger you are, the better terms you can get.
For example, in last quarter, in our Finnish operations, the integrated services revenue was 6% from the revenue in Sweden, 2.8% and in Germany, 4.8% from the revenue. We expect Integrated Services terms and conditions to improve when Camux is growing abroad. Then let's have a few highlights and picks from our 2020 results. I have to note that the trading environment was challenging throughout the whole year, but it was also challenging in the last quarter. However, in the last quarter, revenue was growing 13.3%, and the whole fiscal year revenue was growing 10%.
Gross profit and EBIT improved relatively compared to the previous year. Like for like revenue decline slowed down in the last quarter. And despite increase of the stock inventory stock so inventory turnover stayed in good level, being 47.2 days. All this is creating a solid basis for our new strategy. Then if we look at our international operations.
Despite corona pandemic, our international operations had a strong year. In Sweden, our revenue was growing 40.7% and operating profit 171.1 percent in the last quarter. And in Sweden, we recognized a deferred tax asset, €800,000 at the end of the last year, and this is a proof that our Swedish operations are on the right track. In Germany, we had 2 lockdowns in 2020, 1 month in April and since 16 December, lockdown started, which is still continuing as we speak. What is remarkable that we were anyway able to grow in Germany in the last quarter 24.5 percent revenue, and we also managed last year to make the 1st ever profitable quarter, quarter 3 in Germany.
Then if we talk about our investments. Data and analytics guide sales, purchasing and pricing, and we utilize data also in developing the customer experience, especially in online shopping. We aim at seamless omniceller service and the best digital purchase path on the market. Our customer proposition focuses on attractive prices and trust. We employ a customer oriented approach in developing new services.
We improve the efficiency of our processes and logistics and industrialize them. We will further develop car inspection and other procedures related to cars. And this we do in order to continue to keep our fixed costs low. We invest heavily in personal competence, continuous learning and career path at all levels of the organization. Going forward, we will open a fewer number but larger new showrooms.
In the past, we have leased almost all of our showrooms. In future, we can also own strategic store locations, especially with car processing operations. Benefits for the Kamuk's are that we can better tailor properties for our needs, and we can also have a stronger grip for strategic locations. These kind of locations will not be many per country, and we will continue to lease major part of our properties also in the future in strategic period. Investments will be visible during the strategy period.
For example, we have taken into use a new Camux management system, so to speak, our sales and CRM system in Germany in December, and we will roll out it to other markets during the 2021. And we are also launching a group wide training to increase our team leaders' and supervisors' capabilities. Then if we talk about our financial targets. Financial target setting is based on our strong growth ambitions during the strategy period. Growth and scalability will drive our operating profit increase.
If we start with the targets, revenue growth of over 20% annually, annually increasing adjusted EBIT and adjusted EBIT margin over 3.5%. Have to note here that we are not slashing our prices or ballooning the OpEx, but this new target is reflecting mainly the change of sales mix. We have a stronger margin in Finland, but our foreign operations will grow now during the strategic period faster than the Finnish operations. The next target is return on equity over 25% and target to distribute dividends of at least 25% of net profits. Then if we look a little bit how we achieved the targets or how was the achievements in 2020, So our revenue growth was 10%, which was in line with our previous midterm targets.
Our adjusted operating profit was €30,700,000 and the profit margin was 4.2%, which was also above our previous midterm targets. Our return on equity was 26.3%, and dividend proposed dividend is 41%. We have also listened our investors, and now we give for 2021 outlook. It is in 2021, Gamux expects its revenue to reach €800,000,000 to €850,000,000 and adjusted operating profit to increase from the previous year. Have to bear in mind, we start to implement our new strategy with full steam now, but the results will follow along the 3 year strategy period.
Coronopandemic is also still among us. Then if we look how we will increase the profit. So during the strategy period, profit increase will follow due to very concrete steps. The steps are accelerated growth, analytics driven purchasing, sales and pricing selected additions to service portfolio, exciting area what we discussed about today industrialized processes and seamless omnichannel service and bigger stores. And now I will summarize our presentation.
So this is really about seizing the great market opportunity. So the used car market is stable, large and fragmented, and it offers great opportunities for Camux Concept. The next step in our story is to accelerate growth and elevate scalability. And to achieve this, we will focus on omnichannel customer experience and services, efficient processes and scalability, utilizing data and leading with knowledge and developing capabilities and continuous learning. Thank you for your attention, and I'm happy to answer your questions.
There's a question on investments. How much does it cost to establish a larger dealership?
When we think about our strategy period, we have not disclosed an investment target. But of course, if we think about the investment profile, what we have and the areas we invest, they continue relatively similar as in the previous year, of course, excluding the investments to the bigger stores or the strategic locations what we might own. So of course, that is different thing. But usually, if we talk about 1 or individual stores and we talk about our brand look alike elements, we talk about tens of 1,000 of euros. So relatively minor investments in that level.
Will these 1,000 people be in your payroll or outsourced?
We have currently we use, of course, resources which are in our own payroll, and we also use different partners. And about those that amount of people we discussed, that mainly would be our own people.
Why do you set such a strict dividend policies when you clearly could invest more to grow more?
It's a very interesting question. And dividend always is a balance and so to say, how the owners would like to that seeing. I think our dividend policy is very logical. So we are putting proportionally more funds to our growth. But I know that we have also shareholders to whom dividend is important.
Is there a fundamental reason why you could not reach the same margin in Germany and Sweden compared to Finland in the future?
If we talk about our margin levels, so we have defined a margin target for the group level. But fundamentally, there are no not big differences in the countries.
You lowered your EBIT margin target to at least 3.5% from previously 4 point 0%, which will be the year when profits are hurt the most by growth efforts, 2021, 2022, 2023?
Can you still repeat the question, please? Yes.
We lowered your EBIT margin target to at least 3.5% instead of previous 4.0 percent, which will be the year when profits are hurt the most by growth efforts, so 'twenty two 'twenty one, 'twenty two, 'twenty three?
Okay. I understand. As I was saying when I was presenting our outlook, so I was saying that we are now putting full steam with our measures to implement the strategy. And I think you can also see that the outlook versus the targets, so there is a difference.
How did you come to choose 20% growth target and not higher or not lower one?
We had a very careful assessment and process where we looked at growth opportunities, which, of course, is vast for us. And based on the plans and actions, what we have derived from our work, we ended up to this target level.
Camux has roughly €100,000,000 car inventory. Will you continue to own your inventory? Or do you have plans to finance the growing car inventory to release cash and increase return on equity?
Yes. We have so far, we have owned all the cars, what we have. And currently, we don't plan any change in that policy. But of course, that would be also one opportunity to increase the finance if that would be needed.
Could you open up? What do you mean with industrialization?
With industrialization, we mean standardized processes, which are done in centralized ways.
What is your thought about buying back shares as part of capital allocation?
It's not excluded, but currently, I don't recognize these kind of plans.
What level do you expect integrated services to be at as a percentage of sales at the end of the strategic period?
We have not disclosed a target level for the integrated services. But as I was telling, we expect we know that, that is a scale sensitive business, and we expect that the growth will improve in the Credit Services proportionally.
The auto market is changing rapidly in Europe and offers a structural growth opportunity at attractive returns for Camox. Why pay a dividend instead of going all in and winning in this structural shift?
I think I had partially answered this question. And of course, the dividend is also the vision or the wish of the owners. So as I was saying that according to my mind, we are now making there quite a change, putting proportionally more funds to the Kamuk's growth ambitions.
Can the EBIT margins in Finland increase further? Will the EBIT margins in Sweden and Germany ever reach Finnish levels?
We have not given a target or ambition levels for the country level EBIT margins. But as we discussed that the European market or as Juha was also describing in his presentation that from the car trading perspective, there is no big differences.
Is Camux gaining market share in Germany by lockdown because it is a strong digital player?
I think our digital operations and remote sales have been a vital part to in current trading environment in Germany, very important for us.
Okay. That finishes our questions for our CFO. Thanks, Sato. So this ends our Capital Market Day.
We hope that you enjoyed this afternoon with us. Thank you.