Kimbo Posts Strong Profit Rebound as Coffee Costs Stay High
Kimbo pushed revenue above €300 million in 2025, with EBITDA more than doubling even as raw-material spending topped €150 million.
Coffee costs stayed punishing, but Kimbo still pushed revenue above €300 million in 2025 and more than doubled EBITDA, a sharp reminder that some roasters are still winning on pricing power, mix and brand loyalty.
The Naples-based company said revenue rose 32.8% from 2024, while EBITDA climbed to €15.8 million and profit before tax reached €10.7 million, up from €2.3 million a year earlier. Even with that improvement, Kimbo was still living inside the same expensive market everyone else is facing: raw material spending topped €150 million, up 46% year over year. In other words, the rebound came not because green coffee got easier, but because Kimbo managed the squeeze better than many of its peers.
What stands out in the numbers is how broad the improvement was. International sales rose 46%, helping the company turn a stronger commercial performance into real earnings rather than just bigger turnover. Kimbo also said net financial debt narrowed significantly, giving it more room for future investment. Chairman Mario Rubino linked the results to the company’s industrial and brand heritage, along with stronger execution in innovation and international development.
The 2025 results also marked a steep step up from 2024, when Kimbo’s turnover reached €208 million, up 7.7%. That earlier year had already pointed to a margin-recovery plan, and by June 2025 the company was leaning harder into specialty coffee and Poland as part of its effort to move into under-served markets and new products. A €5 million loan from Mediocredito Centrale and BdM Banca, folded into a broader €50 million MCC Group facility for roasters facing higher raw-material and energy costs, helped back the company’s 2025-2029 business plan.
For buyers, the signal is plain enough. In a coffee market still defined by expensive inputs and volatile commodity swings, the brands that keep moving are the ones with room to protect shelf presence, push exports and keep product mix working in their favor. Kimbo, founded by the Rubino brothers in 1963 and long established as Italy’s second-ranked retail coffee brand, is showing that even in a brutal cost cycle, heritage brands can still convert scale into profit.
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