Lindt & Sprüngli Coy Us expansion on tariffs

Lindt & Sprüngli has not explicitly confirmed or denied her weight to expand manufacturing in the United States to counter President Trump’s tariff.

Bloomberg It was reported last week, noting that people are familiar with the procedures, that the excellent chocolate maker in Switzerland can seek to spend up to $ 10 million to facilitate the US production of Easter products made in Germany.

News Agency sources indicate that the plans will include the manufacture of seasonal elements such as Easter rabbits, chocolate products determined by Santa and other hollow chocolate characters.

Request to comment on speculation when approaching before Just foodLindt & Sprüngli spokesman, referring to a project to be expanded in one of its positions in the United States. However, the project has not been specifically determined as related to tariffs.

“We have evaluated more investments in our productive capacity in the United States for several years. We are currently expanding our productive capacity on our site in Station, New Hampshire,” the spokesman said.

“Regardless of the customs tariff, we are constantly improving the efficiency of our production and supply chains. This includes reviewing the products that are manufactured in any locations and for any markets.”

This post was asked by Lindt & Sprüngli to get more details about the Strateham expansion project, but he did not receive a response at the time of writing this report.

The company runs five production factories in the United States and six in Europe, according to its annual report of 2024.

It was released in March, and pointed out that “a walk with our sales growth, we increase our capabilities in the United States by continuing to expand the production facility in Strath, New Hampshire.

“The project is on the right track and is based to become full operation in 2025, which greatly increases the factory capacity. Investments in automation will significantly increase productivity.”

That year, Lindt & Sprüngli told global sales of $ 5.47 billion ($ 6.77 billion), with SFR2.15 billion in North America – SFR843M in the United States; SFR442M in Canada; And SFR574M in Mexico.

No mention of the potential impact of the American definitions in the Lindt & Sprüngli report was half the year issued in July.

The company said that the organic sales rose by 11.2 % to the SFR2.35 billion St in half “supported by increases in the prices needed to compensate for the standard high cocoa costs” by 15.8 %.

The results were broken in other regions. EBITDA has decreased by 5 % to SFR401.8M with margin decreased 250 basis points to 17.1 %.

EBIT 11.3 % decreased to SFR259.2M, while the margin decreased to 11 % from 13.5 %. The net income fell 13.3 % to the SFR188.9M.