{"id":233085,"date":"2026-05-13T04:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-vivo-energy-profit-rises-13-percent-in-2025-but-aviation-slump-clouds-q1\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:04:12","slug":"cote-divoire-vivo-energy-profit-rises-13-percent-in-2025-but-aviation-slump-clouds-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-vivo-energy-profit-rises-13-percent-in-2025-but-aviation-slump-clouds-q1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Vivo Energy Profit Rises 13 Percent in 2025 but Aviation Slump Clouds Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Vivo Energy Cote d&#8217;Ivoire (<a href=\"https:\/\/dabafinance.com\/en\/capitalmarkets\/SHEC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BRVM: SHEC<\/a>) grew its 2025 net profit 13% to 6.03 billion FCFA ($10.8m), helped by a 5% rise in volumes &#8212; particularly in butane and lubricants &#8212; and a reduction in its bank borrowing costs. Revenue was broadly flat at 605 billion FCFA ($1.08bn).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">The more telling story is what happened to gross margin. Despite revenue barely moving, gross margin before transport costs rose 7%, meaning the company sold a more profitable mix of products and managed its procurement better&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605110972.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>Vivo Energy Cote d&#8217;Ivoire (BRVM: SHEC) grew its 2025 net profit 13% to 6.03 billion FCFA ($10.8m), helped by a 5% rise in volumes &#8212; particularly in butane and lubricants &#8212; and a reduction in its bank borrowing costs. Revenue was broadly flat at 605 billion FCFA ($1.08bn). The more telling story is what happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233086,"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":[258,256,8763,26015,5958,6183,6555,5959,7424,1218,257,6720,15693,8688,30677,254,40508],"class_list":["post-233085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aviation","tag-clouds","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-energy","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-profit","tag-rises","tag-slump","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vivo"],"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\/233085","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=233085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}