- Sales from six months to end of June rise 4.8% to EUR92m (US$107.7m)
- Maintaining “long-term development strategy focused on quality and strengthening its presence in the high-end wine segment”
Lanson-BCC has reported a second consecutive half-year of rising sales, setting the scene for a possible return to full-year growth for the first time since 2022.
Having booked a 3.1% top-line increase from the second half of last year, the champagne group this week said that its sales in the six months to the end of June came in up by approaching 5%. Despite the positive slant, Lanson-BCC was at pains to warn against extrapolating H1 numbers over the full 12 months, given that only “around one-third of annual sales are generated during the first half” of the calendar year.
Citing figures showing the performance of the wider champagne category during the six months, the company, which consists of eight smaller businesses, all in the Champagne region, said it was in line both domestically (H1 volumes fell 4% versus industry’s -5.2%) and in exports (volumes at +0.7% vs +1.6%). Lanson-BCC linked the rises in shipments of champagne to “precautionary stocking operations” in the US.
“In line with its positioning as a family-owned champagne pure player,” the firm said, “Lanson-BCC is pursuing its long-term development strategy focused on quality and strengthening its presence in the high-end wine segment, an essential focus given the continuing rise in grape costs and the significant burden of stock financing.”
The turbulence of the current trading environment resulted in the group’s preference not to estimate its performance for the full 12-month period of calendar 2025.
