{"id":228521,"date":"2026-03-26T01:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-palmci-revenue-rises-but-profit-slips-as-input-costs-bite\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T01:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:47:23","slug":"cote-divoire-palmci-revenue-rises-but-profit-slips-as-input-costs-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-palmci-revenue-rises-but-profit-slips-as-input-costs-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Palmci Revenue Rises but Profit Slips As Input Costs Bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">PALMCI, the Abidjan-based palm oil producer <a href=\"https:\/\/dabafinance.com\/en\/capitalmarkets\/PALC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listed on the BRVM<\/a>, grew revenue by nearly 15% in fiscal 2025 to XOF 197.6bn ($347.1M), driven by stronger sales of manufactured products and accessory income. But higher costs ate into the bottom line, and net profit slipped to XOF 15.5bn ($27.2M) from XOF 15.9bn ($27.8M) a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Raw material purchases were the main drag, rising more than 50% year-on-year and compressing value added and operating margins across the board. Personnel costs also&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603250677.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMCI, the Abidjan-based palm oil producer listed on the BRVM, grew revenue by nearly 15% in fiscal 2025 to XOF 197.6bn ($347.1M), driven by stronger sales of manufactured products and accessory income. But higher costs ate into the bottom line, and net profit slipped to XOF 15.5bn ($27.2M) from XOF 15.9bn ($27.8M) a year earlier. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,21056,11509,5958,6183,6555,5959,34689,1218,257,51181,15693,7343,8688,23378,254],"class_list":["post-228521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bite","tag-costs","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-input","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-palmci","tag-profit","tag-revenue","tag-rises","tag-slips","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}