Natra announced consolidated earnings results for the first nine months ended September 2014. For the period, the company reported profit from operations of EUR 375,000 against EUR 11,498,000 a year ago. Loss before taxes was EUR 9,401,000 against profit of EUR 2,721,000 a year ago.

Loss from continued operations was EUR 10,533,000 against EUR 490,000 a year ago. Net loss attributable to shareholders of the main company was EUR 11,800,000 against EUR 1,613,000 a year ago. Natra closed the first nine month of 2014 with a consolidated turnover of EUR 265.47 million.

The net loss at the end of September 2014 was mainly due to the deterioration of the gross margin because of increasing cocoa prices in a period of low seasonality of the cocoa and chocolate business.