Emmi continues its growth dynamic and convinces with innovative strength

Lucerne, 29 January 2026 – The Emmi Group was able to continue the steady growth dynamic of previous years and, despite a challenging market environment, achieved strong, regionally broad-based organic growth of 4.3% in the 2025 financial year. This exceeded the guidance of 2% to 3%, which had already been raised in August 2025. The good, volume-driven organic growth was generated once again from a strong domestic market in Switzerland, as well as the important growth markets of Brazil, Chile and Mexico. The strategic and innovative niches of ready-to-drink coffee with Emmi Caffè Latte, premium desserts and speciality cheeses achieved very pleasing growth rates.

Overall, the Emmi Group increased its sales by 9.1% to CHF 4,745.7 million (previous year: CHF 4,348.8 million). In addition to the very good organic growth, positive acquisition effects contributed an additional 7.9% to growth. This was partly offset by negative currency effects of 3.1%. This positive sales performance underlines the success of the Emmi Group’s consistently implemented growth strategy and its high level of innovation. The focus is on a balanced geographical presence in dynamic growth markets and strong positioning in attractive niches with innovative concepts geared to relevant customer and consumer needs.

The integration of the Mademoiselle Desserts Group, which was acquired in 2024, and the development of the Emmi Desserts PowerHouse are proceeding according to plan. The new organisation is strongly positioned and is achieving initial synergies in the go-to-market strategy in Europe and the USA. With its innovative desserts portfolio, the Emmi Group is well positioned to benefit from the global indulgence megatrend and the structurally growing market. Premium desserts, a strategic niche, made a strong contribution to growth, underscoring the importance of the desserts business for the Emmi Group.

Thanks to its resilient decentralised business model, efficiency programmes and strict cost discipline along the entire value chain, Emmi was able to largely offset the adverse impact of the negative currency effects and the additional US tariffs levied in the 2025 reporting year and confirms its guidance for EBIT and net profit margin unchanged at the lower end of the respective range. Emmi’s medium-term guidance remains unchanged.

Introduction of the new strategic platform nutrition+

Health and indulgence are two of the defining global consumer megatrends. With its innovative dairy product portfolio and strong desserts business, Emmi is uniquely positioned to address both trends in a targeted manner.

From the 2026 financial year, the Emmi Group will further strengthen its focus on health with the introduction of the strategic platform nutrition+. Dairy products play a key role in a healthy diet due to their naturalness, high nutrient density, high-quality proteins and frequent fermentation. Based on its innovative strength, quality standards and expertise in functional dairy concepts – from high-quality protein solutions and meal replacements to products with functional added benefits or natural, simple recipes and lactose-free options – Emmi is expanding another growth area.

“Emmi focuses consistently on the needs of consumers. With the new strategic niche nutrition+, we are strengthening our focus on the consumer megatrend of health and complementing our existing niches in a targeted manner. This positions Emmi firmly along its proven competences and future growth fields, strengthening its growth profile, as evidenced by our sustained growth momentum,” says Ricarda Demarmels, CEO of the Emmi Group.

Emmi Group

Despite all the challenges posed by trade policy and resulting foreign exchange developments, the Emmi Group has grown significantly. All divisions contributed to the sustained growth momentum and the increase in net sales by 9.1% to CHF 4,745.7 million (previous year: CHF 4,348.8 million). The positive sales performance is attributable not only to volume-driven organic growth of 4.3%, to which all divisions contributed, but also to positive acquisition effects totalling 7.9%. The Mademoiselle Desserts Group was the main driver, although Hochstrasser and Verde Campo, which were acquired in 2024, and The English Cheesecake Company, which has been consolidated since November 2025, contributed to the acquisitive growth. Negative currency effects from the appreciation of the Swiss franc, particularly against currencies that are important for Emmi, such as the US dollar, the Brazilian real, the euro, the Mexican peso and the Chilean peso, had a negative impact of 3.1% on sales performance.

Division Switzerland

Emmi increased its sales in its domestic market of Switzerland by 4.2% to CHF 1,845.4 million (previous year: CHF 1,771.4 million). Thanks to strong brand concepts and relevant innovations in line with changing consumer needs, the division exceeded its sales targets (0%–1%) with organic growth of 3.4%. This continued the growth momentum that has been steadily accelerating over the past two years. The key drivers of this good performance were positive volume effects and a higher milk price over the year as a whole. Consumer demand was particularly healthy for iconic brand concepts such as Emmi Caffè Latte, Emmi Energy Milk, Luzerner Rahmkäse and Emmi good day, as well as for product innovations such as Emmi I’m your meal and the new Emmi High Protein Water. In addition, a short-term order had a positive one-off effect in the second half of 2025. Even without this, division Switzerland achieved strong organic growth of around 1.8%, thus exceeding its own guidance.

Division Americas

Division Americas exceeded its growth targets (4%–6%) with volume-driven organic growth of 6.4%. This positive development largely offset the negative currency effects. Sales increased to CHF 1,727.2 million (previous year: CHF 1,707.7 million). Very good sales growth was recorded in the Latin America region in particular, with its dynamic growth markets of Brazil, Chile and Mexico. The USA made a significant contribution to sales with locally produced brands such as Athenos, the number one in the feta segment, and Meyenberg, the nationally leading brand for goat’s milk products, while cheese specialties imported from Switzerland were impacted by tariff and exchange-rate-related price increases. Sales developed positively in the strategic niche of ready-to-drink coffee in Spain with Kaiku Caffè Latte and at the Brazilian subsidiary Verde Campo with innovative, functional dairy products with high-quality protein.

Division Europe

Division Europe generated sales of CHF 1,047.2 million (previous year: CHF 747.7 million), representing an increase of 40.1%, largely attributable to the acquisition and successful integration of the Mademoiselle Desserts Group acquired in October 2024. At the same time, sound organic growth of 1.4% was achieved in line with our own expectations (1%–3%) despite subdued consumer sentiment. The premium desserts business was the division’s main growth driver, recording strong organic growth. Emmi Caffè Latte also continued its growth momentum despite the challenging market environment in most European markets. In the cheese segment, Swiss speciality cheeses enjoyed increasing demand, particularly in Germany and the Netherlands. On the other hand, sales of fresh goat’s cheese and powder were lower in the Netherlands, as supply chain delays and US tariffs had a negative impact.

Division Global Trade

Division Global Trade increased sales by 3.2% to CHF 125.9 million (previous year: CHF 122.0 million) with direct exports from Switzerland to customers in countries where Emmi does not have its own companies. The organic growth of 5.6% was largely due to exports of surpluses of skimmed milk powder, cheese, butter and cream from Switzerland.

Emmi confirms earnings guidance for 2025

Thanks to targeted geographical diversification into dynamic growth markets and the clear focus with relevant concepts on strong niches and premium products, the Emmi Group’s business model once again proved to be very resilient in 2025. Emmi was able to largely offset the adverse impact of currency effects and US tariffs through its decentralised business model, efficiency programmes and strict cost discipline. Once again, Emmi has delivered a reliable performance and reaffirms its guidance for EBIT (CHF 330–350 million) and net profit margin (4.8%–5.3%), unchanged at the lower end of the respective ranges, as previously communicated in the Half-year Report 2025. The medium-term guidance remains unchanged.

The Emmi Group will publish its 2025 annual results along with the guidance for the current financial year 2026 at 7.00 a.m. on 26 February 2026.