Essity: The latest figures, news and market research on Essity

Turnover: 12.6 billion EUR (2023)

Country: Sweden

The Swedish Essity Group was founded in 1929. it specializes in hygiene and health products, with a focus on personal hygiene (child and feminine hygiene), professional hygiene products, and paper towels.Personal hygiene (child hygiene, feminine hygiene), hygiene items for professionals, and paper towels for wiping.

In 2017, the group diversified its business by acquiring BSN Médical. It enters the medical products market as such

News

Hygiene: Essity invests in Eure to improve recycling of food cartons 22/11/2023

The Hondouville plant in the Eure region of France produces toilet paper, handkerchiefs and paper towels for professional markets (hotels, restaurants, businesses, industry, etc.), marketed under the Tork brand.
To manufacture these products, the company has been recycling food bricks for over fifteen years
In each food carton, paper fibers (75%) are mixed with aluminum (5%), plastic (14%) and cork (6%).
The Stockholm-based international group, whose products are marketed in some 150 countries, has sales of 15 billion euros by 2022 and 48,000 employees worldwide.
In France, the Group's fourth-largest market, it operates eight sites with 2,500 employees.
Its Eure plant also manufactures cotton personal care products under the Demak'Up and Lotus brands.
Over the past three years, investments at the Normandy site have totalled 47 million euros, reassuring the plant's 360 employees

Essity claims "world first" in recycling 21/10/2023

A new recycling line for liquid-food packaging was inaugurated on October 17.
Essity's sales target is 15 billion euros by 2022.
Essity employs around 48,000 people in 150 countries.
In France, Essity employs 2,500 people and has six production sites and a research and development center.
France is the Swedish group's fourth-largest market.
The Hondouville plant employs 360 people.

it is primarily the Lotus brand that operates in the diaper market. However, Essity has other international (Libero) and regional (Pequeñin in Latin America) brands in this market. The group entered the French market in 2017 with the premium brand Lotus Baby Touch: the primary goal is to quickly capture 10 percent of the market.

Financial Data

DUNS: 509395109

Legal Name: ESSITY FRANCE

Address: 151 BOULEVARD VICTOR HUGO 151-161, 93400 SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE

Number of employees: Entre 250 et 499 salariés (2021)

Capital: 50 374 272 EUR

Financial Data:

Year	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015
Turnover	1 030 924 356	1 045 198 095	1 066 285 188	1 072 490 997	1 055 560 148	1 072 280 918	1 106 752 836
Gross margin (€)	377 280 180	391 512 094	393 293 084	369 583 440	364 295 943	356 746 432	-
EBITDA (€)	6 873 351	21 633 736	4 032 320	12 133 728	38 537 520	53 353 990	-
Operating profit (€)	5 692 627	18 497 937	20 857 109	11 297 696	35 479 908	49 021 004	-
Net profit (€)	3 932 183	14 185 480	9 475 106	502 495	17 894 394	27 326 638	15 368 134
Turnover growth rate (%)	-1,4	-2	-0,6	1,6	-1,6	-3,1	-
Ebitda margin rate (%)	0,7	2,1	0,4	1,1	3,7	5	-
Operating margin rate (%)	0,6	1,8	2	1,1	3,4	4,6	-
Working Capital (turnover days)	33,9	38,9	34,9	36,7	42,4	44,3	-
Working Capital requirements (turnover days)	21,9	13,1	32,5	38,1	35,6	39,2	-
Net margin (%)	0,4	1,4	0,9	-	1,7	2,5	-
Added value / Turnover (%)	7,4	8,1	5,6	5,3	7,5	8,2	-
Wages and social charges (€)	33 738 268	33 150 645	32 470 941	28 483 952	28 874 145	28 712 140	-
Salaries / Turnover (%)	3,3	3,2	3	2,7	2,7	2,7	-