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CIE Automotive challenges the sector with a record profit of 326 million euros in 2024

27/02/2025

Increases sales and results with a high level of cash generation that brings debt to historic lows

Bilbao, 27.2.2025 – CIE Automotive has presented today the results for the 2024 financial year, challenging with significant growth an Automotive industry weakened by uncertainties.

Sales have exceeded 3.96 billion euros, which represents a growth of 1.1%, outperforming by more than 2 basic points the decrease in global vehicle production.

In terms of operating margins, an EBITDA – gross operating profit – of 728 million has been reached, and an EBIT – net operating profit – of 538 million euros, which represents margins of 18.4% and 13.6% respectively, significantly higher than the average margins of the sector.

All of the above results in a record net profit of 326 million which, on a comparable perimeter, represents a growth of almost 5% compared to 2023.

According to Jesús María Herrera, CEO of CIE Automotive, “We continue growing above the market, improving our results, and above all, we continue with an extremely high cash generation that has brought our leverage to historic lows, which, in the current sectoral context, highlights the value of our management model and our positioning as a reference supplier in the global Automotive industry”.

And he adds: “For all these reasons and due to our expectations for the current year, we are in a position to reconfirm that the commitments of the 2025 Strategic Plan will be fulfilled.”

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CIE Automotive acquires Inteva Roof Systems and reinforces its commitment to comfort systems.

16/09/2018

Becomes one of the top three roof systems manufacturers and

Bilbao, 9.17.2018 – CIE Automotive has announced today the acquisition of INTEVA ROOF SYSTEMS, a company specialized in the design and manufacture of sunroofs for the Automotive sector and positioned among the global Top-3 sunroof manufacturers. The transaction, upon its closing and execution, shall entail an investment by CIE Automotive of 755 million US dollars (approximately 650 million Euros).

 

With more than 4,400 employees and estimated 2018 sales of approximately 1,000 million US dollars (more than 850 million Euros), INTEVA ROOF SYSTEMS operates sixteen manufacturing facilities and 6 R&D centers in 7 different countries (USA, Mexico, Germany, Slovakian Republic, Romania, China and India). Its customer portfolio includes main automotive OEMs, with a significant footprint of Chinese OEMs.

 

The transaction enables CIE Automotive to reinforce its commitment for the comfort systems – clear winner trend in the evolution of the sector - as well as to increase its footprint in the sunroof segment, highlighting especially its complementarity on customers, geographies and products with Advanced Comfort Systems (ACS), the sunroof unit that CIE integrated in 2009 and that has successfully managed since then, doubling its sales and significantly improving its results.

 

According to Jesús María Herrera, CIE Automotive CEO, “INTEVA ROOF SYSTEMS contributes to strengthening our style-aesthetics-and-comfort-oriented products portfolio, a segment with important growth perspectives, as well as to prove once more our bet and commitment to design, high technological level engineering and processes and products with high complexity”.

 

This transaction fits into the growth and diversification strategy of CIE Automotive, as outlined in the Strategic Plan 2016-2020, and fortifies CIE´s global position as a referent supplier in the sector, thanks to its solid business model and the flexibility of its structure.

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