Management Report: 2024–2025 Q1-3 Sales Up at Zwack Unicum

The Board of Directors of the Zwack Unicum Plc. has approved the Management’s report about the results of the Company in the first three quarters of the 2024–2025 business year, the company has announced on the website of the Budapest Stock Exchange.

As the Management Report highlights, total gross sales of the company were HUF 34,119 million – a year-on-year increase of HUF 2,530 million (8.0%). The total gross sales include revenues from the deposit-refund system (DRS), which was introduced in Hungary on January 1, 2024. During the first three quarters of the business year they amounted to HUF 390 million. Net sales (that is, sales revenues minus excise tax and revenue from the DRS deposit fee) were HUF 21,038 million, a year-on-year increase of 10.2% (HUF 1,947 million).

In the first three quarters of the business year the net domestic sales of products had a year-on-year increase of HUF 1 467 million (9.0%). Net sales of own-produced goods in the domestic market had a year-on-year increase of HUF 1,336 million (11.0%) (HUF 13,448 million instead of HUF 12 112 million). Broken down in more detail, sales of premium products increased by 13.3% while the sales of the quality products increased by 4.3%.

Within the premium category, the sale of products belonging to the Unicum brand and to the Kalumba brand went up steeper than the average growth. The Unicum Orange Bitter, which is the most recent member of the Unicum family, was introduced during the third quarter of the business year but only in the ontrade channel. In addition, the Company debuted with Unicum Trezor XO, a limited edition, luxury category version of the Unicum herbal liqueur. Demand for that latter product was so intensive that it only took two months to sell out the stock that had been set aside for the entire year.