Elopak ASA (“Elopak”, Oslo B\u00f8rs Ticker: ELO) provides a trading update for the first quarter of 2026. Preliminary consolidated accounts as of end of February indicate a softer-than-expected revenue and EBITDA development, following a year of strong financial results and strategic progress in 2025. <\/p>\n
Based on the preliminary accounts, we forecast revenue below EUR 300 million with EBITDA margin of around 14% for the full quarter. The main drivers for the results development are:<\/p>\n
Ramp-up in Little Rock has been slower than expected due to decline in demand for plant-based products in AmericaGeneral soft consumption in Europe and decline in aseptic juice market in a price competitive environmentReduced volume and continued margin pressure in India due to imbalances in non-system marketFrontloading of cost related to strategic initiative and one-off effects related to filling machines<\/p>\n
\u201cElopak has delivered resilient and strong financial results over the last 3 years. While the development so far in 2026 is weaker than expected, we remain confident our strategy \u2018Repackaging tomorrow\u2019 and our financial mid-term targets\u201d, says CEO Thomas K\u00f6rmendi.<\/p>\n
The full Q1 2026 report with full year outlook for 2026 will be released on 5 May 2026 at 07:00 AM (CET).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elopak ASA (“Elopak”, Oslo B\u00f8rs Ticker: ELO) provides a trading update for the first quarter of 2026. Preliminary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[25748,25746,25749,25745,25747,25750,25744,157,156,2255],"class_list":{"0":"post-45409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oslo","8":"tag-cos","9":"tag-mfnregulatorynsta","10":"tag-mfnextob","11":"tag-mfnextobinside-information","12":"tag-moicco","13":"tag-moicco40","14":"tag-moicco4040","15":"tag-norway","16":"tag-oslo","17":"tag-regulatory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116269044447033534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}