The company aimed to “gradually balance the lag registered between the increase in prices and sales costs.”
In the midst of the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, With supermarkets to avoid the shooting of the prices that have an impact on the inflation index, the leading business group of the field of food, Rio de la Plata Molinoshe spread a fall in his last balance.
In March, the company had already disseminated its annual balance of 2024, where it recognized a 6.4% drop in their income, with a collapse of net gain around 67%. In a new study of its internal finances, the company obtained a negative result in the first quarter of 2025: “With unit costs nominally increasing above prices (24.0% vs 8.4%), the net result was negative for $ 5,460 million.”
In your analysis, MOLINOS RÍO DEL PLATA He attributes the negative balance to the prices of his products for the consumer “They increased below costs.” In the detail, at the close of the first quarter of the year they registered net income from $ 199,548 millionwhich implied a 25.9% drop in real terms interannual.
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On the other hand, the company recognized a Sales volume growth in the local market around 6.1%but diagnosed that “it was more than compensated by a strong price drop in real termssince they were adjusted during the last mobile year only at 8.4% nominal, while the inflation registered by INDEC was 55.9%, in the same period. ”
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In its report of the first quarter of 2025, the Food Company states that “before a still depressed consumption scenarioin which the main market consultants registered a drop of 8.6% quarter against quarter, the company maintained its approach to Preserve the proper positioning of your brandstrying to offer the greater accessibility possible to consumers in each of the categories in which it operates. “
From that strategy, he valued a “general increase in market share”, simultaneously to a Export growth of 32%. “Faced with this environment of great competitive pressure And with the purpose of optimizing the execution of its business plan, the company intensified the management and review of its operating costs and central expenses, implementing a strict control program, seeking to generate efficiencies and improvements in all operational processes, ”they manifest.
Among its conclusions, Rio de la Plata Molinos They understand that “From the recovery of the available income of households, the company will seek to gradually balance the lag registered between the price increase and the costs of sale.” “Society will continue to focus on the consumer, its brands, productivity and efficiency to continue accompanying Argentines with increasingly healthy, rich, practical and accessible products,” they conclude.
Source: Ambito
