Currency exposure

The Group’s global presence, with manufacturing and sales in many countries, creates currency exposure but also offsets exchange rate effects to a certain degree.

The principal exchange rate effect arises from transaction flows, when purchasing and/or production is carried out in one currency and sales occur in another currency. Every month Group Treasury collects forecasts of the transaction flows for the coming 12 months from the operating units and hedges the invoiced flows. To some extent, the Group also utilizes currency derivatives to hedge forecasted flows with both committed price and volumes. The results from the currency hedges are transferred to the operating units. It is the business areas’ responsibility to manage the FX risk of the forecasted flows through immediate price adjustments and cost reductions.

Electrolux is also affected by translation effects when the Group’s sales and costs are translated into SEK. The translation exposure is primarily related to currencies in those regions where the Group’s most substantial operations exist.

Main transaction flows

The main transaction flows and currency pairs are presented in the map together with an explanation of how they impact the Group.

North America

Electrolux is a net importer into the market with flows mainly from China and production conducted in Mexico. In addition to this, the operation in Canada has an exposure to USD as Electrolux imports products into that market.

Latin America

Most of the finished products originate from own factories in the region, while imported input goods such as raw materials and components are largely denominated in USD.

EMEA

A major part of the currency flows in Europe is denominated in EUR, with external imports primarily in USD. Electrolux faces currency exposure when the cost base in the factories differs from the domestic sales.

South Africa

The majority of the operations comprises of local production.

China

The Group sources a large volume of input goods and finished goods from China to Electrolux globally. A major part of these are invoiced in USD but also in CNY.

Australia

Import flows are based in USD from external suppliers and in THB from the Electrolux facility in Thailand.

Sensitivity analysis of currencies

The major currencies for the Electrolux Group are the USD, CAD, EUR, CHF, GBP, BRL, MXN, AUD, PLN, CLP and THB. In general, income for Electrolux benefits from a weak USD, EUR and PLN and from a strong CAD, CHF, GBP, BRL, MXN, AUD, CLP and THB. In countries with large manufacturing and logistics centers, effects over time will to a large extent balance out due to natural hedging.

Sensitivity analysis year-end 2023  
Risk Change Pre-tax earnings
Currency and interest rates  
Transactional exposure USD to CAD 10% 420
Transactional exposure USD to EUR 10% 390
Transactional exposure EUR to CHF 10% 310
Transactional exposure EUR to GBP 10% 280
Transactional exposure USD to BRL 10% 280
Transactional exposure MXN to USD 10% 170
Transactional exposure USD to AUD 10% 130
Transactional exposure PLN to EUR 10% 120
Transactional exposure USD to CLP 10% 110
Transactional exposure THB to AUD 10% 100
Translation exposure to SEK* 10% -94
Interest rate 1 percentage 30
* Assuming the swedish krona appreciates/depreciates against all other currencies  

 1) Including transaction effects but not translation effects.

2) At year-end 2023.

3) Assuming the Swedish krona appreciates/depreciates against all other currencies.