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CIE Automotive challenges the sector with a record profit of 326 million euros in 2024

27/02/2025

Increases sales and results with a high level of cash generation that brings debt to historic lows

Bilbao, 27.2.2025 – CIE Automotive has presented today the results for the 2024 financial year, challenging with significant growth an Automotive industry weakened by uncertainties.

Sales have exceeded 3.96 billion euros, which represents a growth of 1.1%, outperforming by more than 2 basic points the decrease in global vehicle production.

In terms of operating margins, an EBITDA – gross operating profit – of 728 million has been reached, and an EBIT – net operating profit – of 538 million euros, which represents margins of 18.4% and 13.6% respectively, significantly higher than the average margins of the sector.

All of the above results in a record net profit of 326 million which, on a comparable perimeter, represents a growth of almost 5% compared to 2023.

According to Jesús María Herrera, CEO of CIE Automotive, “We continue growing above the market, improving our results, and above all, we continue with an extremely high cash generation that has brought our leverage to historic lows, which, in the current sectoral context, highlights the value of our management model and our positioning as a reference supplier in the global Automotive industry”.

And he adds: “For all these reasons and due to our expectations for the current year, we are in a position to reconfirm that the commitments of the 2025 Strategic Plan will be fulfilled.”

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null CIE Automotive obtiene un reconocimiento a la Transparencia Empresarial en los premios Fundación Alejandro Echevarría

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CIE Automotive wins recognition for Corporate Transparency at the Alejandro Echevarría Foundation Awards

09/02/2022

The Alejandro Echevarría Foundation, "Comunicando Futuro", has awarded the first communication prizes in different categories: Business Transparency, Youth Values in Communication and Career

Antón Pradera, CIE Automotive's Chairman, received the award for Corporate Transparency from the Alejandro Echevarría Foundation, "Comunicando Futuro". The organisation recognises companies that communicate the basic principles of the organisation in an honest and transparent manner.

On the other hand, the journalist Ane Irazabal has been recognised with the Youth Values in Communication award and, finally, the journalist Iñaki Gabilondo has been recognised for his extensive career in the world of communication with the award dedicated to this category.

The president of the Foundation, Alejandro Echevarría Busquet, wanted to highlight the valuable role of credible and reliable information in today's society in this first edition of the awards. In this context, during his inaugural speech, he pointed out that "disinformation is another great pandemic and, in the world in which we live, the only vaccine against this evil is the media".

The conference was attended by a wide range of business and institutional representatives, such as the Mayor of Bilbao, Juan María Aburto, the Spokesperson and Regional Minister for Culture and Language Policy, Bingen Zupiria, and the Deputy General of Bizkaia, Unai Rementeria.

The communication awards ceremony promoted by the Foundation is intended to become an annual event. In parallel, the Alejandro Echevarría "Communicating the Future" Foundation will work to raise social awareness regarding the importance of developing well-informed societies. It will promote forums for analysis and debate, led by renowned professionals in the sector, and will highlight leading professionals, as well as emerging professionals.

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