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Societe Ivoirienne des Tabacs (BRVM: STBC<\/a>) posted higher revenue but lower profits in 2025, as a steep rise in excise duties ate into margins — and then distributed virtually everything it earned back to its British parent.<\/p>\n Revenue rose 25% to 268 billion FCFA ($479.2m), driven by price increases that followed a government-mandated hike in tobacco taxes at the start of the year. But those same taxes pushed up production costs faster than selling prices, squeezing the gross margin. Net profit fell…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Societe Ivoirienne des Tabacs (BRVM: STBC) posted higher revenue but lower profits in 2025, as a steep rise in excise duties ate into margins — and then distributed virtually everything it earned back to its British parent. Revenue rose 25% to 268 billion FCFA ($479.2m), driven by price increases that followed a government-mandated hike in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233128,"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":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,8056,6800,1218,5055,257,10139,7343,10159,54384,254,4456],"class_list":["post-233127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-higher","tag-ivorian","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-maker","tag-news","tag-profits","tag-revenue","tag-sees","tag-sitab","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tobacco"],"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\/233127","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=233127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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