Mainstreet Brick Business Plan — Capital Requirement and Funding

R6.30m equity, R8.50m development finance at 11.5%, R3.61m equipment finance at 13.0% and a R1.80m working capital facility.

Capital Requirement and Funding

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  • 10.1 Uses of funds
  • 10.2 Sources of funds
  • 10.3 Gearing and the capital structure

10.1 Uses of funds

Capital requirement by item
Figure 8. Capital requirement by item.

Capital item

Amount (R)

% of total

Treatment

Static hydraulic block machine, semi-automatic pallet system

2 400 000

13.0%

Depreciated over 10 years

Batching plant, pan mixer, aggregate bins and conveyors

1 850 000

10.0%

Depreciated over 10 years

Delivery truck, 8 tonne with crane

1 250 000

6.8%

Depreciated over 10 years

Yard preparation, hardstand, drainage and curing area

1 450 000

7.9%

Depreciated over 10 years

Forklifts, three units

1 380 000

7.5%

Depreciated over 10 years

Front-end loader

850 000

4.6%

Depreciated over 10 years

Site electrical, transformer and reticulation

780 000

4.2%

Depreciated over 10 years

Cement silo, 50 tonne, and screw conveyors

680 000

3.7%

Depreciated over 10 years

Curing racks, GRP production pallets and spares

1 150 000

6.2%

Depreciated over 10 years

Professional fees, environmental authorisation and licensing

520 000

2.8%

Depreciated over 10 years

Installation, commissioning and operator training

450 000

2.4%

Depreciated over 10 years

Office, ablutions and workshop, containerised

420 000

2.3%

Depreciated over 10 years

Water supply, borehole and recycling system

340 000

1.8%

Depreciated over 10 years

Laboratory and SANS compliance testing equipment

180 000

1.0%

Depreciated over 10 years

Opening raw material inventory

950 000

5.2%

Opening inventory

Working capital facility, debtor book funding

2 400 000

13.0%

Working capital

Contingency at 8% of project cost

1 364 000

7.4%

Depreciated over 10 years

Total capital budget

18 414 000

100.0%

10.2 Sources of funds

Sources and uses of funds
Figure 9. Sources and uses of funds.

Source

Amount (R)

% of total

Terms

Promoter and investor equity

6 300 000

31.2%

Ordinary shares; promoter and investor contribution

Development finance term loan

8 500 000

42.1%

11.5% a year; 7 years with a twelve-month capital moratorium

Asset-based equipment finance

3 614 000

17.9%

13.0% a year; 5 years, secured on plant and vehicles

Committed working capital facility

1 800 000

8.9%

12.5% a year; drawn at commissioning and held against the debtor book

Total funding

20 214 000

100.0%

Equity at 31.2 per cent of total funding sits at or near the level development finance institutions typically expect from a start-up promoter. The plan assumes a development finance facility rather than commercial bank debt because manufacturing, job creation and localisation fit those mandates, and because the twelve-month capital moratorium a DFI will structure is what makes the Year 1 position survivable.

10.3 Gearing and the capital structure

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Development finance term loan, R’000

8 500

7 439

6 257

4 938

3 467

Equipment finance, R’000

3 056

2 426

1 714

909

Working capital facility, R’000

1 800

1 800

1 800

1 800

1 800

Total debt outstanding, R’000

13 356

11 665

9 771

7 647

5 267

Shareholders’ funds, R’000

5 126

5 460

7 000

8 858

10 976

Gearing, debt to debt plus equity

72.3%

68.1%

58.3%

46.3%

32.4%

Net debt to EBITDA

5.36x

2.80x

1.53x

0.82x

0.20x

Debt against shareholders' funds
Figure 10. Debt against shareholders' funds.

Gearing opens at 72.3 per cent and falls to 32.4 per cent by Year 5 as the facilities amortise and retained earnings accumulate. Net debt to EBITDA falls from 5.4 times to 0.2 times over the same period. Both trajectories are what a development financier would want to see, and both depend on the utilisation ramp holding — Section 15 shows what happens to them if it does not.