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View all search resultsUnilever records double-digit profit growth in first 9 months
PT Unilever Indonesia has reported strong profit growth for this year’s first nine months, but that comes after sales nosedived last year.
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A picture taken on June 5, 2015 shows the logo of Unilever at the headquarters in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. (AFP/John Thys)
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T Unilever Indonesia has reported double-digit profit growth in the first nine months of this year, but the strong performance comes on the back of a steep slump in sales last year.
The financial report reveals that the company recorded total profit of Rp 3.33 trillion (US$200 million) in the first three quarters of 2025, marking a 10.81 percent year-on-year (yoy) increase from Rp 3 trillion registered in the same period last year.
“We are starting to see a positive impact from the structural changes and discipline steps that we have taken in the past year. At the start of this year, we stated commitments to bring back growth in the second half of 2025, and now, we are starting to realize that,” Unilever Indonesia president director Benjie Yap said in a press statement on Thursday.
He went on to say that, amid “the dynamic market, this achievement convinces us that we are on the right track”.
According to the report, net sales in the first nine months totaled Rp 27.61 trillion, marking an increase of less than 1 percent from Rp 27.41 trillion logged in the equivalent period last year.
Meanwhile, the cost of goods sold (COGS) rose to Rp 14.22 trillion from Rp 14.13 trillion.
Gross profit, or net sales minus COGS, was therefore registered at Rp 13.38 trillion, a marginal improvement from Rp 13.28 trillion recorded in the first three quarters of last year.
