CIE Automotive : breaks its quarterly record again
April 29, 2020 at 11:26 am EDT
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Despite the adverse context, it reports its 25th consecutive record quarter. The company has held its Shareholders Meeting today.
CIE Automotive continues one more quarter demonstrating growth and profitability. In this sense, the company has reported that it has achieved a turnover of 822 million euros, 1.2% more than in the same period of 2019. In fact, in an Automotive market directly impacted by the health crisis in which vehicle productions have fallen by -25% in this first quarter, CIE has grown 26 points above the market.
Also noteworthy is the sustainability of high operating margins, with EBITDA - gross operating profit - exceeding 17% margin on sales, and the improvement in its net profit, which has reached 72.8 million euros.
According to Jesus Maria Herrera, CEO of the Group, 'our clients are resuming activity and we understand that the worst of the situation has passed. Current visibility is very limited, so we are not in a position to formulate a forecast for 2020, but we are confident of a reasonable evolution in the second half that will allow us to end the year with a positive result and with the generation of operating cash, the ultimate objective and fundamental of all our management model '.
Also remember that CIE Automotive held the General Shareholders' Meeting today at its registered office in Bilbao and that it took place electronically given the existing mobility restrictions.
CIE Automotive SA is a Spain-based company engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the production of biofuels, as well as in the supply of components and subassemblies for the automotive industry. The Company is also involved in the Information Technology (IT) sector, with the provision of technological solutions for the healthcare, education, sustainability, transport and communications sectors. The Company is a parent of Grupo CIE Automotive, a group which comprises a number of controlled entities with operations established in Spain, Portugal, France, Lithuania, Morocco, Czech Republic, Romania, Brazil, Argentina, China, Russia, Guatemala and Mexico, among others. The Company has such subsidiaries as Global Dominion Access SA, CIE Inversiones e Inmuebles Sociedad Limitada and CIE Berriz Sociedad Limitada, among others. In February 2014, the Company acquired a 50% stake in RS Automotive NV owned by VEP Fund I Holding Cooperatief WA.