Financial position and key figures

In 2021, acquisitions under Hansel’s joint procurement agreements totalled €1,052 million (€916 million in 2020). Joint procurements returned to a growth path, although Covid-19 continues to have a negative impact on some of the categories such as travel and meeting services.

The company’s net sales in 2021 totalled €12.3 million (€11.5 million in 2020). The net sales consisted of service fees for joint procurement totalling €9.2 million (€8.7 million in 2020), sales of expert services totalling €2.6 million (€2.4 million in 2020), and other service fees and revenue totalling €489,000 (€365,000 in 2020).

The loss for the 2021 accounting period was €1,252,000 (loss of €1,723,000 in 2020). The loss was planned and mostly a result of the costs of the reorganisation of the company and its ownership resulting from the merger on 2 September 2019, but significant profit will be accrued with a delay. The agreements tendered by Hansel before the merger could not be opened for new customers. The financial items of 2021 contain financial income from the change of the investment strategy, €293,000 in total.

In 2006–2017, Hansel made a profit. In accordance with its articles of association, Hansel is a non-profit limited liability company. The financial position of the company is good.

Key financial figures

	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017
Joint procurement, thousand euros	1,051,541	915,970	899,673	895,213	826,482
Net sales, thousand euros	12,273	11,465	11,148	10,922	10,435
Operating profit, thousand euros	–1,544	–1,756	–838	–686	203
and its share of the net sales, %	–12.6	–15.3	–7.5	–6.3	1.9
Result for the financial period, thousand euros	–1,252	–1,723	–770	–672	184
Balance sheet total, thousand euros*	26,670	13,009	14,688	18,711	19,252
Equity, thousand euros	6,828	8,106	9,829	15,570	16,241
Equity ratio, %*	25.6	62.3	66.9	83.2	84.4
Personnel at the end of the financial period, active input (person-years)	116	112	113	92	90
*On 31 December 2021, the balance sheet total contains €15,116,000 under the electricity derivatives trading of the electricity agreement that are pass-through items for the company.