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Swiss Water Reports Second Quarter 2025 Results
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Inc. (TSX:SWP) ('Swiss Water' or 'the Company'), a leading specialty coffee company and premium green coffee decaffeinator, today reported financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025. All amounts are expressed in Canadian dollars unless otherwise stated. Second Quarter 2025 Highlights Q2'25 processed volumes remained relatively stable over Q2'24; Revenue of $67.7 million, an increase of 56% over Q2'24; Net Loss of $0.4 million, a decrease of $1.3 million over Q2'24; Adjusted EBITDA of $1.8 million, a decrease of $2.7 million or 59% over Q2'24; The NY'C' coffee futures price for Arabica coffee remained volatile during Q2'25, peaking at US$4.10/lb in April. During Q2'25, the NY'C' averaged US$3.59/lb, compared to an average of US$2.20/lb in Q2'24, an increase of 64%; Operating credit facility renewed and expanded to $80M; Agreement with Mill Road Capital to repurchase and cancel outstanding warrants. Year to Date 2025 Highlights Year to date processed volumes increased 2% over 2024; Revenue of $130.0 million, an increase of 58% over 2024; Net income of $0.1 million, an increase of $0.05 million over 2024; Adjusted EBITDA of $3.8 million, a decrease of $3.4 million or 47% over 2024; 'We are pleased to have delivered volume growth and stable net income during the first six months of this year, reflecting the ongoing strength of our customer relationships and the resilience of our business. Despite solid volume performance, our year-over-year second quarter profitability was adversely effected by losses from rolling forward hedge positions within an inverted market, depreciation of the U.S. dollar, increased production costs due to our strategic decision to reduce finished goods inventory, and the front loading of maintenance costs in 2025. In any period, material variances in revenue and Adjusted EBITDA versus prior year can arise due primarily to volatility in commodity pricing and foreign exchange rates. Through our risk management activities, we hedge versus this volatility so that over time, the Adjusted EBITDA and net income reflect pure operating performance exclusive of these volatile factors. We expect the industry specific volatility that effected our second quarter to be temporary and reverse year-to-go,' said Frank Dennis, CEO of Swiss Water. 'In addition, I am delighted that during the second quarter, we executed initiatives to materially strengthen our balance sheet. We renewed and expanded our operating credit facility, continued to repay construction debt, and reached an agreement to repurchase and cancel the Mill Road Capital warrants. These steps continue to enhance our financial flexibility and support our long-term strategy.' Summary of Operational Performance Total processing volumes in pounds for the first half increased by 2% when compared to 2024, supported by continued customer demand and strong order flow. With all production now fully consolidated in Delta and both decaffeination lines running 24/7, except for planned maintenance, we have returned to a more predictable distribution of sales, reflecting both operational momentum and a growing, stable customer base. The NY'C' coffee futures price for Arabica coffee remained volatile during Q2, peaking at US$4.10/lb in April 2025. Spot availability of coffees remains very low, and pressure on the futures market intensified during the quarter. Moving forward, the higher prices and inverted coffee futures market may result in a softening of consumer demand and volumes shipped to importers. During the first quarter of 2025, the US administration signalled its intention to impose blanket tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports. Swiss Water's decaffeination process has been formally classified by US customs as 'non-transformational', allowing processed beans to retain the original country-of-origin status for tariff purposes. As a result, Swiss Water's exports to the US were not subject to tariffs during the three months ended March 31, 2025, but were subject to a 10% blanket tariff rate, or the applicable tariff rate of the country of origin of the coffee in Q2. Summary of Financial Results In C$ '000s 3 months ended June 30 6 months ended June 30 except for per share amounts 2025 2024 $ Change % Change 2025 2024 % Change % Change Revenue 67,695 43,372 24,323 56 % 129,967 82,102 47,865 58 % Cost of sales (62,447 ) (35,707 ) (26,740 ) 75 % (117,432 ) (69,322 ) (48,110 ) 69 % Gross profit 5,248 7,665 (2,417 ) -32 % 12,535 12,780 (245 ) -2 % Operating expenses (3,864 ) (3,917 ) 53 -1 % (7,253 ) (7,668 ) 415 -5 % Operating income 1,384 3,748 (2,364 ) -63 % 5,282 5,112 170 3 % Non-operating or other (2,005 ) (2,077 ) 72 -3 % (5,232 ) (4,565 ) (667 ) 15 % Income (loss) before tax 247 (724 ) 971 -134 % 91 (500 ) 591 -118 % Net income (loss) (374 ) 947 (1,321 ) -139 % 141 47 94 200 % Adjusted EBITDA (1) 1,828 4,484 (2,656 ) -59 % 3,836 7,272 (3,436 ) -47 % Earnings (loss) per share (2) Basic (0.04 ) 0.10 0.01 0.01 Diluted (0.10 ) 0.07 (0.16 ) 0.01 1 Adjusted EBITDA is defined in the 'Reconciliation of Non-IFRS Measures' section of the Management Discussion and Analysis and is a 'Non-GAAP Financial Measure' as defined by CSA Staff Notice 52-306.2 Per-share calculations are based on the weighted average number of shares outstanding during the periods. Diluted earnings per share take into account shares that may be issued upon the exercise of warrants and equity-based RSUs. Revenue for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, was $67.7 million and $130.0 million, which represents a $24.3 million or 56% increase and a $47.9 million or 58% increase, when compared to the same periods in 2024. The increase was primarily driven by a higher NY'C' coffee futures price and enhanced further by volume growth, tariff inclusion and pricing initiatives within our distribution business. Gross profit for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, was $5.2 million and $12.5 million, which represents a $2.4 million or 32% decrease and a $0.2 million or 2% decrease, when compared to the same periods in 2024. In Q2, the decrease was primarily driven by foreign exchange losses on green coffee cost recovery associated with the depreciating US$ dollar, front loading of maintenance costs for our production lines, as well as the reversal of an inventory provision in 2024, which increased gross profit in 2024. There was no such reversal in 2025. Year to date, the decrease was primarily driven by the year-over-year effect of the reversal of an inventory provision in 2024 and the front loading of maintenance costs for our production lines in 2025, partially offset by volume growth and lower utility charges. Gross margin percentage for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, was 8% and 10%, versus 18% and 16% compared to the same periods in 2024. The decline in gross margin percentage was mainly due to a significant increase in green coffee revenue within our revenue stream sales mix, which has materially lower percentage margins than our other revenue streams, but higher dollar per pound or absolute margins, as well as the factors previously described. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, we recorded net loss after taxes of $0.4 million and net income after taxes of $0.1 million, compared to a net income after taxes of $0.9 million and $0.05 for the same periods in 2024. The decrease in Q2 was primarily driven by a decrease in gross profit, as described above, and higher than expected losses from rolling forward hedge positions within an inverted market. The increase year to date was primarily driven by a gain on the fair value of borrowings embedded option, reduced net finance expense, partially offset by higher expected losses from rolling forward hedge positions within an inverted market. Revised pricing initiatives are in place and are expected to fully recover these incremental hedge losses year-to-go. However, because the recovery occurs when sales are shipped and invoiced and not when contracts are rolled, this creates a time lag in the recovery of these costs, and has adversely effected the distribution of net income between quarters. Adjusted EBITDA Swiss Water defines Adjusted EBITDA as net income before interest, depreciation, amortization, impairments, share-based compensation, gains/losses on foreign exchange, gains/losses on disposal of property and capital equipment, fair value adjustments on embedded options, loss on extinguishment of debt, adjustment for the impact of IFRS 16 - Leases, and provision for income taxes and other non-cash gains related to a remeasurement of asset retirement obligation. The Company's definition of Adjusted EBITDA also excludes unrealized gains and losses on the undesignated portion of foreign exchange forward contracts. The reconciliation of net income, an IFRS measure, to Adjusted EBITDA is as follows: In C$ '000s 3 months June 30 6 months June 30 2025 2024 2025 2024 Net income (loss) $ (374 ) $ 947 $ 141 $ 47 Income tax (recovery) expense (247 ) 724 (91 ) 500 Income (loss) before tax $ (621 ) $ 1,671 $ 50 $ 547 Finance income (362 ) (446 ) (740 ) (906 ) Finance expense 1,702 2,293 3,420 4,581 Depreciation & amortization 1,850 1,679 3,628 3,395 Unrealized (gain) loss on foreign exchange forward contracts 54 26 71 (12 ) Fair value (gain) loss on the embedded option (546 ) (83 ) (1,657 ) 808 (Gain) loss on foreign exchange 110 (206 ) 269 (586 ) Share-based compensation 275 189 67 724 Impact of IFRS 16 - Leases (634 ) (639 ) (1,272 ) (1,279 ) Adjusted EBITDA $ 1,828 $ 4,484 $ 3,836 $ 7,272 Subsequent Event On July 3, 2025, the Company completed an agreement with Mill Road Capital to purchase from Mill Road Capital the outstanding share purchase warrants entitling Mill Road Capital to acquire up to 2.25 million common shares of the Company. The share purchase warrants had an exercise price of $3.33 per share and were to expire on April 30, 2026. The purchase price for the share purchase warrants was $0.7 million. The payment was executed on July 3, 2025, and the outstanding warrants were cancelled. Call Details A conference call to discuss Swiss Water's recent financial results will be held on Thursday, August 7, 2025, at 1:00 pm Pacific (4:00 pm Eastern). To access the conference call, please dial: (toll-free) or (international); Listeners will be prompted to provide If a listener does not have this code, they can reference the as an alternative passcode. A replay will be available through August 21, 2025, at 1-877-481-4010 (toll-free) or 1-919-882-2331 (international); replay passcode: 52720 A more detailed discussion of Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Inc.'s recent financial results is provided in the Company's Management Discussion and Analysis filed on SEDAR+ and Swiss Water's website ( For more information, please contact: Iain Carswell, Chief Financial OfficerSwiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee 1-604-420-4050Email: investor-relations@ About Swiss Water Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Inc. is a leading specialty coffee company and a premium green coffee decaffeinator that employs the proprietary Swiss Water® Process to decaffeinate green coffee without the use of chemical solvents such as methylene chloride. It also owns Seaforth Supply Chain Solutions Inc., a green coffee handling and storage business. Both businesses are located in Delta, British Columbia, Canada. Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements in this press release may constitute 'forward-looking' statements that involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. When used in this press release, such statements may include such words as 'may', 'will', 'expect', 'believe', 'plan', 'anticipate' and other similar terminology. These statements reflect management's current expectations regarding future events and operating performance, as well as management's current estimates, which are based on numerous assumptions and may prove to be incorrect. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees but involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, risks related to processing volumes and sales growth, operating results, the supply of utilities, the supply of coffee and packaging materials, supply of labour force, general industry conditions, commodity price risks, technology, competition, foreign exchange rates, construction timing, costs and financing of capital projects, a potential impact of any pandemics, global and local climate changes, changes in interest rates, inflation, transportation availability, and general economic conditions. The forward-looking statements and financial outlook information contained herein are made as of the date of this press release and are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. Except to the extent required by applicable securities law, Swiss Water undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any such statements to reflect any change in management's expectations or in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any such statements may be based, or that may affect the likelihood that actual results will differ from those described.
Yahoo
30-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Swiss Water Conference Call Notification for 2025 Second Quarter Results
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Inc. (TSX: SWP) ("Swiss Water" or "the Company"), a leading specialty coffee company and premium chemical free coffee decaffeinator, announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, on Thursday, August 07, 2025, at 1:00 PM Pacific (4:00 pm Eastern). The call can be accessed by dialling approximately five minutes before the call: (toll-free) or (international); Listeners will be prompted to provide an . If a listener does not have this code, they can reference the as an alternative passcode. A replay will be available through Thursday, August 21, 2025, at: 1-877-481-4010 (toll-free) or 1-919-882-2331 (international); replay passcode 52720 The financial results will be released on Wednesday, August 06, 2025, after the market closes. About Swiss Water Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Inc. is a leading specialty coffee company and a premium green coffee decaffeinator that employs the proprietary Swiss Water® Process to decaffeinate green coffee without the use of chemical solvents such as methylene chloride. It also owns Seaforth Supply Chain Solutions Inc., a green coffee handling and storage business. Both businesses are located in Delta, British Columbia, Canada. For more information, please contact Iain Carswell, Chief Financial OfficerSwiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee 1-604-420-4050Email: investor-relations@ in to access your portfolio
Globe and Mail
30-07-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Swiss Water Conference Call Notification for 2025 Second Quarter Results
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Inc. (TSX: SWP) ("Swiss Water" or "the Company"), a leading specialty coffee company and premium chemical free coffee decaffeinator, announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, on Thursday, August 07, 2025, at 1:00 PM Pacific (4:00 pm Eastern). The call can be accessed by dialling approximately five minutes before the call: 1-888-506-0062 (toll-free) or 1-973-528-0011 (international); Listeners will be prompted to provide an access code: 741915. If a listener does not have this code, they can reference the Company name as an alternative passcode. A replay will be available through Thursday, August 21, 2025, at: 1-877-481-4010 (toll-free) or 1-919-882-2331 (international); replay passcode 52720 The financial results will be released on Wednesday, August 06, 2025, after the market closes. About Swiss Water Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Inc. is a leading specialty coffee company and a premium green coffee decaffeinator that employs the proprietary Swiss Water® Process to decaffeinate green coffee without the use of chemical solvents such as methylene chloride. It also owns Seaforth Supply Chain Solutions Inc., a green coffee handling and storage business. Both businesses are located in Delta, British Columbia, Canada. For more information, please contact
Times
28-07-2025
- Lifestyle
- Times
Barley latte? France wakes up to healthy coffee substitutes
History records that Voltaire, the 18th-century writer, was not generally irritable but he did experience mood swings, perhaps because of his habit of drinking up to 50 cups of coffee a day. Today eight out of ten French people start the day with a coffee, usually black, and many also down several espressos — and some complain that it can make them tetchy or anxious. Most French cafés also offer déca, or decaffeinated coffee, but now there is a lesser-known alternative, made by roasting cereals such as barley. The grains, which look remarkably like coffee beans, are grown in Brittany. They can be ground and used in espresso machines or French press coffee-makers. 'A lot of our customers prefer barley coffee substitute to decaffeinated coffee, which usually contains solvents or is made with huge quantities of water, which is wasteful,' said Micaela Duarte, the owner of a fashionable café on a tree-lined boulevard in Paris's 11th arrondissement. 'I drank the coffee myself when I was pregnant and couldn't handle real coffee. It satisfied my craving for a morning coffee with milk,' Duarte, 29, said. To demonstrate, she made an espresso and a latte with Orzo, a coffee substitute made with barley, without additives. You might have expected it to taste like jus de chaussette, or 'sock juice', a colourful term for acrid coffee that smells sooty and leaves an ashtray aftertaste. However, there was a pleasant surprise in the discovery of a flavour close to that of freshly ground coffee, with a softer aroma. Both the espresso and the latte were smooth-tasting, although neither provided the authentic coffee kick that Voltaire craved. Yoann Gouéry, who produces the coffee substitute in Ploeuc-L'Hermitage in Brittany, said: 'It's not a booster. It won't wake you up, but it does give you energy and you won't feel tired in the afternoon. Like any cereal, it activates the intestinal flora and aids digestion.' Graine de Breton, Gouéry's small company, has a turnover of about €400,000 a year, producing 30 tonnes of various coffee substitutes using barley, spelt and buckwheat. His products have been featured in national television news reports. A reporter on the TF1 channel swore off coffee for a month as an experiment and drank only Gouéry's cereal substitutes. At the end of the month, clearly won over, he said he felt less tired. However, Marie Lijour, a nutritionist, said it might not have been entirely because of the barley beverage. 'Psychologically, it made him feel he was looking after himself and perhaps unconsciously he was more careful about what he ate and chose healthier foods.' Gouéry said he got the idea for making coffee substitutes from an old recipe book. 'We wanted to produce an alternative to coffee that's healthy and locally sourced.' He roasts barley for about an hour in a large coffee roaster: 'I'll go up to more than 230C until I get the colour I want.' For now, he sells to a niche market. Few traditional French cafés are interested and his customers are either individuals or modern coffee bars that have sprung up in the past decade, catering mainly for young professionals and tourists who prefer to avoid the petit noir, or short black, on offer at the corner café. The French love affair with coffee began after Suleyman Aga, the Ottoman ambassador to the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King, brought it to France in 1669. • Roquefort makers kick up a stink over 'unhealthy' tag in France's food labelling policy Café culture took root in Paris during the Age of Enlightenment, when Voltaire gathered with other writers and philosophers at the Café Procope on the Left Bank. Yet the coffee served in Parisian cafés today is of variable quality. Too often, an espresso, which is what most French people prefer, is a bitter shot that many locals render drinkable by dropping in a couple of sugar cubes. Milk may soften the bitterness, but cannot hide it completely. Duarte's Moon Coffee Shop, which is highly rated in the prestigious Gault & Millau guide, is part of the new wave. 'We get a lot of people coming in who want to avoid caffeine, and when we suggest the barley drink, they're often sceptical,' Duarte said. 'We tell them, just try it, and if you don't like it, you don't have to pay. So far, everyone has paid and we have some customers who always order it.' Chicory is another option but 'we didn't like the taste as much and it can't be ground and used in an espresso machine', Duarte said. Gouéry's coffee substitutes are also available in supermarkets with organic counters. At Biocoop, near Place de la République in central Paris, I found several devotees, but also a few sceptics. 'I love this stuff,' said Micheline, 32, a lawyer, who bought a packet of a multiple-grain blend of barley, malted barley and spelt also produced by Gouéry. 'I can drink as much as I like and it doesn't make me tense like coffee does, but the flavour is close.' Patrick, her partner, was less enthusiastic. 'The barley drink doesn't do it for me. If you like the taste of coffee, just drink real coffee but don't overdo it.' Perhaps Voltaire deserves the final word. It has often been said that his doctor once warned him that coffee was a poison. He supposedly replied: 'It is a remarkably slow poison. I have been drinking it every day for more than 75 years.' A word of caution, however: this same response has also been attributed to another French writer, Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle.
