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(Sharecast News) - Swiss chocolatier Lindt & Sprungli posted a jump in full-year sales on Tuesday, sweetened by higher prices and growing demand for premium products.
Organic sales growth at the 180-year-old company, best known for its gold foil covered bunnies, rose 12.4% in 2025 to CHF5.92bn (5.5bn), or by 8.2% in Swiss francs.
The figure was marginally ahead of consensus, for CHF5.90bn.
Lindt said the year had been shaped by "geopolitical and economic uncertainty, cautious consumer behaviour and unprecedented high cocoa costs, resulting in double digit price increases and lower volumes across the industry".
However, despite that Lindt said it had benefited from an ongoing trend towards premiumisation as well as "successful" innovation, including the roll out of its own Dubai style chocolate.
Groupwide price hikes of 19%, meanwhile, helped offset higher cocoa costs.
Adalbert Lechner, chief executive, said: "Consumers still long for quality, moments of bliss, a small, special treat, and as a premium brand we meet that demand."
Lindt also saw accelerated growth of 11.9% in North America in the second half, helping lift full-year organic sales in the region 8.9% to CHF2.18bn, despite weak consumer sentiment.
In Europe, sales rallied 15.3% at CHF2.96bn.
Lindt reiterated full-year guidance for an operating profit margin at the lower end of its 20 to 40 basis points range.
For 2026 and thereafter, however, it retained its forecast organic sales growth for between 6% and 8%.
As at noon GMT, the stock was trading 3% lower in Zurich.
Lindt is due to publish full-year results in March.