Nordzucker Post 4/2025 - 30 October 2025

Half-year 2025/2026: Earnings development in line with expectations 

As expected, the Nordzucker Group closed the first half of the 2025/2026 financial year at the end of August 2025 with a significant decline in sales and a negative result.   

At 1,175 million Euro, Group revenues did not reach the high level of the same period last year (1,416 million Euro). As expected, operating profit (EBIT) was minus 38 million Euro, compared with plus 207 million Euro in the first half of the previous year. 

 ”Due to persistently low sugar prices combined with high production costs from the last campaign, we had to report a loss in the first half of the year. We are continuing to pursue our goal of stabilising our annual results with the help of comprehensive excellence programmes and optimisation measures,” explains CFO Alexander Bott.  

“A price recovery is currently not foreseeable in either the global market or the EU market. Various developments are playing a role here, in particular, the high harvest expectations in the EU but also on the global market, especially in India,” adds COO Alexander Godow.  

Nordzucker had budgeted a negative result in the low double-digit million range for the 2025/2026 financial year due to the decline in sugar revenues. Early last year, Nordzucker launched various cost optimisation initiatives and intensified its existing excellence programmes. “The continuing low sales price level in Europe and on the global market means that we expect a negative result for the current financial year,” said CFO Alexander Bott.