STG has revised its full-year guidance for free cash flow, revising it up and setting it at about 1 billion from the previous >750 million. Special items are expected to be about DKK 200 million. The revised expectation includes transaction costs associated with acquiring Royal Agio Cigars for about DKK 20 million [read more here], costs for the closure of STG Lane Ltd.’s facility in Tucker, Georgia [read more here], and lower than previously anticipated costs related to the company’s Fueling the Growth program [read more here]. The guidance for organic growth in EBITDA is unchanged. For the fourth quarter of 2019, STG predicts that the development in organic net sales will remain weak.
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