Louis Dreyfus Company Reports 2025 Half-Year Consolidated Financial Results
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, September 19, 2025 – Louis Dreyfus Company B.V. (LDC) published today its consolidated financial results for the six-month period ended June 30, 2025, reporting resilient performance in a context of continued global challenges.
With net sales amounting to US$26.2 billion, EBITDA at US$987 million, and Segment Operating Results reaching US$1,217 million, the Group once again demonstrated the strength and resilience of its diversified business model, supported by disciplined risk management, operational excellence and market insight.
“Thanks to the agility and dedication of our global teams, and despite persistent geopolitical, regulatory and environmental challenges, we achieved continued volume growth, up 4.4% year on year, and delivered a robust financial performance, while maintaining strong momentum in pursuit of our strategic growth ambitions,” said Michael Gelchie, LDC’s Chief Executive Officer.
Over the period, the Group advanced its strategic investments to strengthen core merchandizing capacity. In North America, construction advanced on new oilseeds processing facilities in both Canada and the US, while in South America, the Group further enhanced its grains and oilseeds inland origination capacity in Argentina, expanded its coffee processing facility in Varginha, Brazil, and boosted its Brazilian sugar export capabilities with the construction of a new intermodal transshipment terminal in Pederneiras, Brazil, inaugurated in August.
LDC also progressed with its downstream development initiatives. Work continued on LDC’s new pea protein isolate production facility in Canada, and the semester also saw the inauguration of a new glycerin refining plant and edible oil packaging line in Lampung, Indonesia, as well as a specialty feed lecithin production line in Tianjin, China. The Group’s Juice business also progressed in its downstream expansion journey, with the introduction of its Montebelo Brasil bottled juices to the Indonesian, German and Portuguese markets.
Meanwhile, the Group broke ground on a new Food Technology Park in Dongjiakou, China, spanning both core merchandizing and downstream operations supporting the continued growth of its Grains & Oilseeds and Food & Feed Solutions business in the country.
“Our many achievements in the first semester of 2025, against a backdrop of persistent market turbulence and uncertainty, would not have been possible without the commitment and professionalism of our teams across the Group,” said Michael Gelchie. “In the second half of the year, and beyond, we remain focused on delivering reliably for our business partners, leveraging our expertise, global reach and integrated asset network, which we expanded again in September with new teams and operations in Central Europe. Together, we continue to advance our strategic roadmap for LDC’s transformation into an increasingly integrated, innovative and sustainable food, feed, fibers and ingredients company – a roadmap that is all the more relevant in today’s rapidly evolving global context.”
Highlights for the six-month period ended June 30, 2025:
- Net Sales: US$26.2 billion (US$25.6 billion over the same period in 2024)
- Segment Operating Results: US$1,217 million (US$1,284 million over the same period in 2024)
- EBITDA: US$987 million (US$1,057 million over the same period in 2024)
- Net Income, Group Share: US$418 million (US$489 million over the same period in 2024)
- Capital Expenditure: US$521 million (US$299 million over the same period in 2024)
- Return On Equity, Group Share: 10.1% (11.0% for the year 2024)
- Adjusted Leverage Ratio: 1.3x (0.5x as of December 31, 2024)
- Adjusted Net Gearing: 0.35 (0.15 as of December 31, 2024)
LDC’s complete 2025 Interim Financial Report is available at www.ldc.com.
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About Louis Dreyfus Company
Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods, founded in 1851. We leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world, delivering the right products to the right location, at the right time – safely, reliably and responsibly. Our activities span the entire value chain, from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines (platforms): Coffee, Cotton, Food & Feed Solutions, Freight, Global Markets, Grains & Oilseeds, Juice, Rice and Sugar. We help feed and clothe some 500 million people every year by originating, processing and transporting approximately 95 million tons of products. Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries across six geographical regions, and employs approximately 19,000 people globally.
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