Swiss Chocolatier Lindt & Sprüngli increased its sales forecasts for 2025 after “strong” growth in the first half of 2025.
The Lindor manufacturer now provides that its sales will increase by 9 to 11% on an organic basis this year, against its previous forecast of 7 to 9%.
In a statement published today (July 22), Lindt & Sprüngli said that his positive prospects were supported by “the continuous fidelity of consumers and the continuous trend in premises”.
Lindt & Sprüngli provides for an increase in the margin of EBIT at the lower end of “its annual medium -term growth objective of 20 to 40 base points for 2025.
The first half of the year saw Lindt & Sprüngli increase its growth in biological sales by 11.2%, which represents total sales of 2.35 billion SFR (2.94 billion dollars).
The increase was motivated by all regions, said the company, Europe opening the way with “very strong” organic growth of 17.7%.
All European subsidiaries have reported “two -digit growth”, with the “strongest” performances observed in the Nordic, Benelux, the center of Eastern Europe, France and Austria.
In North America, Lindt & Sprüngli organic sales increased by 3.6% by the company, said the result had failed expectations due to “the weak feeling of consumers”.
Conversely, the rest of the world division saw sales increase by 7.8%, Japan, Brazil, South Africa and China recording “two -digit growth”.
EBIT fell 11.3% to SFR259.2M. In the first half of 2024, Lindt & Sprüngli generated the EBIT of SFR292.3m, which included a unique effect from a resolved legal dispute.
Net profit decreased by 13.3%, regulating at SFR188.9m.
The company reported a negative available cash flow of 79.7 million SFR in the first half, compared to a positive SFR70.4 m during the corresponding period of 2024, influenced by the “higher evaluation of stocks due to higher cocoa costs”.
In response to the climbing of cocoa prices, Lindt & Sprüngli announced in March its intention to implement two -digit price increases in 2025, following an increase of 6.3% initiated last year.
The CEO of Dr. Adalbert Lechner, while presenting Lindt’s financial results in 2024 on March 4, refrained from specifying the exact figure of price increases related to imminent cocoa but acknowledged that the increase was “significant”.
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