De­spite a chal­leng­ing op­er­at­ing en­vi­ron­ment marked by in­creased du­ties, glob­al tar­iff ad­just­ments and evolv­ing con­sumer trends, An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Ltd re­port­ed af­ter-tax prof­its of $153.32 mil­lion for the year end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2025, a 6.27 per cent in­crease over its 2024 per­for­mance.

An­gos­tu­ra’s record­ed rev­enue of $1.11 bil­lion in 2025, a 5.13 in­crease over the pri­or year and main­tained sta­ble gross mar­gins through pru­dent op­er­a­tional and com­mer­cial man­age­ment.

Chair­man, Gary Hunt in his state­ment, stat­ed that growth in in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets con­tin­ued dur­ing the pe­ri­od, as rev­enues from these mar­kets in­creased by 11 per cent when com­pared to pri­or pe­ri­od.

To­tal ex­port rev­enue rep­re­sent­ed 42 per cent of the to­tal group rev­enue com­pared to 40 per cent in the pri­or year.

In­ter­na­tion­al brand­ed rev­enue growth rep­re­sent­ed 79 per cent of the to­tal rev­enue growth, aris­ing from a one per cent growth in bit­ters and a 58 per cent growth in brand­ed rums.

This shift, Hunt said, re­flect­ed the com­pa­ny’s con­tin­ued strate­gic em­pha­sis on in­ter­na­tion­al ex­pan­sion and brand glob­al­i­sa­tion.

He said in the lo­cal mar­ket, rev­enue grew by two per cent over the pri­or year, sup­port­ed by strong per­for­mances from its re­cent­ly launched in­no­va­tions.

“While tra­di­tion­al rum vol­umes faced com­pet­i­tive pres­sures, growth in our Ready-to-Drink (RTD) port­fo­lio par­tial­ly off­set these de­clines. This demon­strates the suc­cess of our port­fo­lio di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion strat­e­gy and our abil­i­ty to re­spond to chang­ing con­sumer pref­er­ences,” said Hunt.

He said while ef­fec­tive op­er­a­tional ef­fi­cien­cies con­tributed to the gross prof­it mar­gin re­main­ing sta­ble at 46 per cent, con­sis­tent with the pri­or year, prof­it be­fore tax (PBT) im­proved by $18 mil­lion or 10 per cent over the pri­or year. That was as a re­sult of the com­bi­na­tion of fo­cused cost man­age­ment and strong ex­port growth, Hunt ex­plained.

The board of di­rec­tors rec­om­mend­ed a fi­nal div­i­dend of $0.29 per share for the fi­nan­cial year end­ing De­cem­ber 31, 2025, bring­ing the to­tal de­clared div­i­dend for 2025 to $0.39 per share as com­pared to $0.38 per share in the pri­or year.

Stat­ing that the bal­ance sheet re­mains ro­bust, Hunt added that to­tal as­sets in­creased by five per cent to $2.0 bil­lion, sup­port­ed by high­er in­vest­ments, in­ven­to­ry and re­ceiv­ables as­so­ci­at­ed with ex­port growth.

Hunt added the group con­tin­ues to main­tain a low debt ra­tio of 0.20 and liq­uid­i­ty re­mains sound, pro­vid­ing flex­i­bil­i­ty to fund work­ing cap­i­tal, div­i­dends and fu­ture strate­gic ini­tia­tives.

Re­gard­ing for­eign cur­ren­cy earn­ings, Hunt said this sup­ports the com­pa­ny’s ca­pac­i­ty to man­age for­eign ex­change oblig­a­tions pru­dent­ly.

“While short-term bor­row­ings of $60 mil­lion were ac­cessed in De­cem­ber to sup­port sea­son­al liq­uid­i­ty re­quire­ments, the group’s over­all liq­uid­i­ty and debt ra­tios re­main healthy,”Hunt added.

Look­ing ahead he said the com­pa­ny an­tic­i­pates a high­ly volatile and un­cer­tain lo­cal/glob­al en­vi­ron­ment.

He added An­gos­tu­ra re­mains strate­gi­cal­ly fo­cused on:

• Ex­pand­ing ex­port pen­e­tra­tion and strength­en­ing our glob­al brand foot­print;

• Con­tin­u­ing prod­uct in­no­va­tions to meet con­sumer de­mands;

• Dri­ving ef­fi­cien­cy across man­u­fac­tur­ing and sup­ply chain op­er­a­tions;

• En­hanc­ing port­fo­lio mix to­ward high­er-mar­gin cat­e­gories; and

• De­liv­er­ing sus­tain­able, long-term share­hold­er val­ue.

“We re­main con­fi­dent in the group’s strate­gic di­rec­tion, fi­nan­cial re­silience and lead­er­ship ca­pa­bil­i­ty. Our di­ver­si­fied port­fo­lio, strong bal­ance sheet and ro­bust gov­er­nance frame­work po­si­tion us well to nav­i­gate ex­ter­nal un­cer­tain­ties while cap­i­tal­is­ing on growth op­por­tu­ni­ties,” Hunt said.