Smurfit Kappa has released a trading update for the nine months to 30 September 2022.
Revenue grew by 33% to €9,724m. EBITDA grew 43% to €1,767m with an EBITDA margin of 18.2%.
Tony Smurfit, Group CEO, commented, “SKG has delivered a strong performance in the first nine months. We continue to drive improvement across all areas of our business, consistent with the delivery of our strategy, providing the most innovative and sustainable packaging through our integrated business model, ensuring security of supply to our over 65,000 customers. Significant cost inflation is being recovered in corrugated box pricing as anticipated. Against strong comparisons, corrugated box volumes were flat for the first nine months.”
He concludes, “The investments we have made over the last number of years are making the Group ever more efficient with a customer-led focus on quality, innovation and sustainability. With SKG’s scale and geographic reach across 36 countries, together with the many specialist businesses within the Group, there remain many opportunities for growth. Our results reflect the steps we have taken and the quality of the Smurfit Kappa business. We expect to deliver EBITDA of approximately €2.3 bn for the full year 2022.”
