Good EBIT Margin From Michelin

The tyre giant Michelin has today released more figures. The EBIT margin reached 7.6 % on a turnover of 15.

4 billion Euro. Michelin reached this expected good result in spite of the fact that increases in raw material costs ate into the results over the year at many other tyre manufacturers. The truck division, which accounts for about 27 % of the total turnover, confirmed excellent double digit EBIT margins.

For this year it is expected that Michelin will again achieve at least the same level of results as it did last year. But there is hope that oil prices are falling, which could give the company even better margins. The net debts stood at 4.