With the 2023 balance sheet already officially closed, the Bon Preu group is today almost 14% more profitable than it was a year ago. In other words, the company behind the second largest supermarket chain where most purchases are made in Catalonia, has improved its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) by 14%. This financial indicator, which measures what a company earns before deducting the payment of taxes or interest if it has debts or the amortization of investments it has made, for example, reached 179 million euros. The group prefers not to disclose how the final profit is, but for reference, in 2022 it had an EBITDA of around 157 million euros and the net result remained at 55 million.
On the other hand, the company founded and managed by Joan Font, explains that last year it sold 2,259 million euros, which means a 9% increase in its turnover and, as EL PERIÓDICO has learned, which has set its total profit at 179 million euros, which means an increase in the EBITDA margin by three tenths to 7.9% (what they earn, total what they bring in) or that has contributed 91.6 million euros to the public treasury between taxes (33.4 million euros) and social security contributions (58.2 million).
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The expenditure portfolio also includes a total investment of 150 million to continue growth, a figure that increases the previous year’s volumes by 43%, but is not at all exceptional. “The trend will be like this, to invest around these numbers,” they indicate from the company. This money was used last year to open six new supermarkets in Barcelona, Lleida, Sitges (Graf), Sabadell (Vallès Occidental) and Tuna (Osuna); completely overhaul the establishments in Tremp (Pallars Jussà), Piera (Anoia) and Sant Celoni (Vallès Oriental); expand the online store, and open two gas stations in Viladecavalls (Vallès Occidental) and Sarrià de Ter (Gironès). Since the beginning of the year, they have already opened two new supermarkets in Tía (Maresme) and La Seu (Alt Urgell), and the goal is to open at least four more.
This increase in the number of points of sale has also been accompanied by a significant increase in the workforce.
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