Cabka Sees 8% Sales Increase in Q3, Signaling Recovery
PRESS RELEASE
Amsterdam, 21 October 2024. Cabka N.V. (together with its subsidiaries “Cabka”, or the “Company”), a company specializing in transforming hard-to-recycle plastic waste into innovative Reusable Transport Packaging (RTP), listed at Euronext Amsterdam, announces its trading update for the third quarter of 2024.
Sales for the third quarter increased 8% to €42.4 million compared to the same quarter last year (Q3 2023: €39.3 million), indicating a gradual recovery despite soft market conditions. Total sales year-to-date reached €135 million, still 6% behind last year (YTD 2023: €144 million), due to very weak sales in the first quarter.
Our RTP Portfolio in Europe and the US continued to perform well, both growing by 16% and 12% year-to-date, respectively. Customized Solutions in Europe remained stable and grew steadily by 4% year-to-date, considering the market conditions, while in the US our Customized Solutions continued to face challenges due to restricted capital expenditure spending by some of our key customers.
The ECO business showed solid growth of 6% year-to-date. Contract Manufacturing and other non-strategic sales, however, did not recover from the weak demand at the beginning of the year, showing a decline of 45% (quantified decline of €9.9 million) compared to last year.
Alexander Masharov commented: “We are pleased to achieve a good third quarter despite challenging conditions earlier this year. Now we are focused on completing the fourth quarter and committed to building on this foundation to present growth for 2025.”
For the full year 2024, we are on track to deliver our sales guidance of €180-185 million, with our EBTDA margin in the range of 13–15%.”
Upcoming events
On 25 November 2024, the company will host its Capital Markets Day at its production location in Ieper, Belgium. CEO, Alexander Masharov, will share with you the updated Business Strategy 2030 and future growth plans.
Financial Calendar 2024/2025
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Trading Update Q3 2024 |
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Capital Markets Day |
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Publication Preliminary Results 2024 |
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Publication of Annual report 2024 and Trading Update Q1 2025 |
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Annual General Meeting of Shareholders |
For more information, please contact:
Nadia Lubbe, Investor & Press contact
, or n.lubbe@cabka.com
+49 152 243 254 79
www.investors.cabka.com
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About Cabka
Cabka is in the business of recycling plastics from post-consumer and post-industrial waste into innovative reusable transport packaging (RTP), like pallets- and large container solutions enhancing logistics chain sustainability. ECO products are mainly construction and road safety products produced exclusively out of post-consumer waste.
Cabka is leading the industry in its integrated approach, closing the loop from waste to recycling to manufacturing. Backed by its own innovation center, it has the rare industry knowledge, capability, and capacity to make maximum use of bringing recycled plastics back in the production loop at attractive returns. Cabka is fully equipped to exploit the full value chain from waste to end-products.
Cabka is listed at Euronext Amsterdam as of 1 March 2022 under the CABKA ticker with international securities identification number NL00150000S7.
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