Nutresa Group He had a good year last year and this is evidenced by his results. According to his directives, not only sales registered a good performance, growing close to 34 percent per year. Profits also had an outstanding performance, 30.4 percent.
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Despite the fact that the group’s sales abroad grew by close to 40 percent per year and totaled 6.9 billion pesos, the local market continues to be the main driver of the food producing organization since revenues in Colombia totaled 10.1 trillion pesos last year, an amount that exceeded by about 20 percent what was registered in 2021.
In total, revenues last year totaled 17 trillion pesos, a growth of 33.8 percent compared to the previous year. Of that volume, 59.3 percent was provided by the Colombian market, their directives indicated.
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They recognized that last year was quite a challenging year for the organization due to problems in the logistics chain and the increase in the costs of raw materials.
Given these circumstances, the company responded with a coverage of inputs and timely and efficient supply, which allowed them to increase gross profit by 21.7 percent, which represented 6.2 trillion pesos.
Regarding operating costs, the nutresa directives indicated that there was a management oriented towards productivity and efficiency. «All categories of expenses grow at a lower level than income, which results in an operating profit of 1.5 trillion pesos and a growth of 36.3 percent compared to the previous year,» they indicated.
They further indicated that the ebitda The Group’s consolidated totaled 1.97 trillion pesos with a growth of 28.6 percent and a margin on sales of 11.6 percent. In turn, net post-operating expenses totaled 245,398 million pesos and mainly reflected the increase in the cost of debt due to higher financing rates.
The company also announced that the board of directors will distribute a total of 618,135 million pesos of net profits, which corresponds to an annual dividend per share of 1,350.36 pesos, which represents an increase of 42.4 percent. in front of the previous one.
