News from year 2018

The Group’s consolidated earnings in the first nine months of this year were dented by the inflation of costs suffered by the North American rice business (some general affecting the entire market, others extraordinary and specifically affecting us) and the huge outlay to develop the Group’s expansion plan. In this context our EBITDA, or gross operating profit, totalled €211.5 million, 18.9% less than the same period of 2017, with a net profit of €99.7 million, down 22.1% year on year.

Just one month after being certified as a Great Place to Work®, an initiative that acknowledges the best places to work in over 50 countries around the world, our company Ebro India has reaped further success in the category Great Mid-Size Workplaces 2018, ranking 11th among the 50 best mid-size (100-500 employees) companies to work… Read more

The Group’s consolidated earnings in the first half of the year were affected mainly by the rising costs (some affecting the entire market and others more direct and extraordinary) suffered by the North American rice business and the major investments in the Group’s expansion plan. In this context, Ebro chalked up a net profit of… Read more

Mars Food, Herba Bangkok S.L (Ebro Foods S.A), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Thai Rice Department recently launched an innovative joint project to improve the economic viability of 1,200 Thai rice farmers and develop high-quality and sustainable Hom Mali rice with a climate-smart system to mitigate climate change in Roi Et… Read more

Bertagni has recently opened the new facilities of its fresh pasta production plant in Avio (Trento, Italy). The remodelling and modernisation of the plant has been completed in less than a year, including restauration and improvement of the entire structure, removal of all the old lines and installation of a new production line, with state-of-the-art… Read more

Coinciding with the 5th anniversary of its incorporation, our company Ebro India has just received certification as a Great Place to Work®. This initiative acknowledges the best places to work in over 50 countries around the world. Quite an achievement, especially since it is the first rice producer in India to obtain this award. Every… Read more

The consolidated earnings obtained by the Group in the first quarter of this year were dented, among other factors, by the hike in commodity prices in the rice division. This placed a substantial burden on the performance of the North American rice business owing to the time lag in passing on prices. Against this backdrop,… Read more

• IRTA researchers, with collaboration from Kellogg and Ebro Foods, study different measures to increase biodiversity, for the benefit of rice production and sustainability in the Ebro Delta • The most effective measures for boosting biodiversity are the planting of yellow iris in the drainage channel and installing bat boxes to improve natural pest control… Read more

Ebro chalked up a net profit of €220.6 million in 2017, a year-on-year growth of 30%. This was mainly due to the positive impact of the tax reform recently passed in the USA, thanks to which our net deferred taxes have been adjusted to a lower rate, from 35% to 21%. The net turnover, pushed… Read more