Biscuits and confectionery makers Parle Biscuits Pvt. Ltd and Mondelez India Meals Pvt. Ltd reported a big decline of their web income final fiscal 12 months over rising price of supplies within the trade, their monetary outcomes for the 12 months ended 31 March 2025 sourced from knowledge supplier Tofler confirmed.
Each firms aren’t listed.
Parle Biscuits’ financials confirmed that the corporate’s web revenue for fiscal 2025 was at ₹979.5 crore, in contrast with ₹1,607 crore within the earlier fiscal 12 months, marking a 29% year-on-year (YoY) decline.
Regardless that the biscuit maker’s gross sales have risen 8.5% YoY to ₹15,568.5 crore, in comparison with ₹14,349.4 crore within the earlier monetary 12 months, the rising price of products for the corporate weighed on income.
Parle Biscuits’ bills for the 2024-25 fiscal 12 months had been at ₹14,881.3 crore, after practically a 15% rise from their earlier 12 months’s ₹12,979.4 crore ranges, in keeping with the financials accessed by Tofler.
Working margins dropped to five.3% from 10.6% the earlier fiscal. Web revenue margins stood at 6% in comparison with its 10.7% year-ago ranges.
Apart from Parle-G, one of many world’s top-selling biscuit manufacturers, the corporate’s portfolio consists of manufacturers equivalent to Cover & Search, Monaco, and Melody.
Mondelez India loses margins
Amid the combined bag earnings of its competitor, the 2024-25 outcomes of Mondelez India, previously often called Cadbury India, confirmed a greater than 99% drop in its web income for the interval to ₹10.5 crore, in comparison with ₹2,081.9 crore a 12 months in the past.
This got here totally on the again of its different earnings shrinking to ₹98.7 crore in FY25 from ₹1,097.5 crore within the earlier fiscal.
Dropping gross sales and rising bills over the price of items impacted the corporate’s web income and working margins. Mondelez India’s gross sales dropped 1.91% to ₹12,503 crore in FY2024-25, in contrast with ₹12,747 crore in the identical interval a 12 months in the past.
The fast-moving shopper items (FMCG) firm’s revenue margins dropped to 0.1% for the interval from 15% a 12 months in the past. Mondelez India’s working margins additionally dropped to eight% versus 19.4%.
As of the 12 months ended March 2025, the corporate’s bills rose to ₹12,549.1 crore, in comparison with ₹11,082.4 crore within the earlier monetary 12 months, in keeping with the monetary statements accessed by Tofler.
Apart from Cadbury goodies, Mondelez India’s manufacturers embrace 5 Star, Tang, Bournvita, and Oreo, amongst different manufacturers.
Stacking up outcomes in opposition to market chief
Parle Biscuits and Mondelez India compete with market chief Britannia Industries which holds a near-38% share of India’s biscuits market, knowledge from India Model Fairness Basis in July 2025 confirmed. Parle is ranked second at 32%.
India-listed Britannia recorded a 2% rise in consolidated web income to ₹2,177.86 crore in FY25 in contrast with ₹2,134.22 crore the earlier 12 months.
The rising price of supplies remained a standard thread together with different rising bills for the 12 months, contributing to an over 8% enhance in Britannia’s complete bills to ₹15,207.66 crore in 2024-25, in comparison with ₹14,063.89 crore the earlier 12 months.
Britannia’s complete revenues from core operations rose 7% YoY to ₹17,942.67 crore from the earlier 12 months’s ₹16,769.27 crore, per knowledge from the Bombay Inventory Change (BSE).
Shares of Britannia Industries closed 0.22% decrease at ₹5,906.30 on BSE on Wednesday.
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