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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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Antón Pradera, Chairman of CIE Automotive, receives a new recognition for his business career

28/02/2022

The ''Euskadi Avanza'' awards from EL CORREO and Banco Sabadell recognise the success of his career and management

The fifth edition of the "Euskadi Avanza" awards, held on 28 February 2022, recognised the decisive contribution of entrepreneurs to the Basque Country. The award went to Antón Pradera, chairman of CIE Automotive, for his business career. EL CORREO highlighted how "the result of his management at the helm of CIE Automotive represents values and objectives that Basque industry has been pursuing for years, albeit not always successfully. He has shown that a company can be large and at the same time maintain its roots in the Basque Country. It has also shown that it is possible to permanently conjugate the verb 'to buy', as opposed to the custom of recent years, which has tended to use the infinitive 'to sell'. And all this in a sector as fiercely competitive as the automobile sector".

In a look back over his career, during the celebration of the awards, they explained how Antón "has piloted a unique project since 1996, which began with the creation of a company with a convoluted name -Instituto Sectorial de Promoción y gestión de Empresas, INSSEC-, which sowed its seed with the takeover of Industrias Egaña. A small company in the Biscayan town of Zaldibar, with barely a hundred workers, which would thus become the foundation on which to build a dream. Barely a quarter of a century later, that dream has become a company that stands out on the stock market with a value of over 3,000 million euros; that has a hundred production centres in 16 countries and that has become one of the national leaders in the automotive sector. The hundred or so people at Egaña have now become a workforce of 25,000 people. In common with other automotive component manufacturers, CIE Automotive has been forced to invest where the automotive companies have their main production plants. Despite this, it has retained control of the technology and also kept its decision-making centres in the Basque Country. If one has to choose a model to imitate for the rest of the Basque companies, the one led by Antón Pradera is close to excellence. His commitment has been far removed from that fashion that seems to have taken hold in the business world, where short or medium-term profit is overly rewarded and long-term profit is disregarded. This is now defined as sustainability. A course that is vital to ensure the survival of industrial companies and which is the best antidote to relocation. One of the dangers of globalisation".

In addition to CIE Automotive's Chairman, Mercedes, Globe Testing and Ternua were the recipients of awards in this fifth edition in the categories of "Company of the Year Award", "Newcomer Award" and "SME of the Year Award", respectively.

Link to the complete news of the awards in EL CORREO: https://www.elcorreo.com/economia/premios-avanza-euskadi-ternua-mercedes-cie-automotive-eneritz-zubizarreta-20220228173132-nt.html

Link to the interview after the reception of the award to Antón in EL CORREO: https://www.elcorreo.com/economia/gestion-mas-importante-que-el-conocimiento-anton-pradera-premios-euskadi-avanza-20220228192926-nt.html

Link to video (Spanish version):
https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ljdJ0y-trYM

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