Succesful jubilee year at Beiersdorf

In the year of its 125th anniversary, the Beiersdorf Group once more achieved record preliminary results with sales of € 5,507 million and an operating result (EBIT) of € 683 million.

The Consumer business segment achieved sales of € 4,661 million in 2007 (previous year: € 4,327 million), an increase of 9.3% adjusted for currency translation effects. In particular, the growth regions of Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa/Asia/Australia contributed to this very positive development with high double digit growth rates. Consumer EBIT excluding special factors reached about € 595 million (previous year: € 524 million) resulting in an EBIT margin of about 12.8% for the segment. 

tesa sales also grew further to € 846 million (previous year: € 793 million), an increase of 8.1% adjusted for currency translation effects. tesa achieved an EBIT of around € 88 million (previous year: € 73 million) and could therefore raise its EBIT margin to over 10%.