Company: GEF
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000043920-25-000009
Chunk: 84

Company: GREIF, INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 84
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4. The $28.3 million decrease was primarily due to $16.9 million of negative foreign currency translation impacts and $10.3 million attributable to lower volumes.

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Gross profit was $63.1 million for the first quarter of 2025 compared with $65.8 million for the first quarter of 2024. The $2.7 million decrease in gross profit was primarily due to the same factors that impacted net sales, partially offset by lower raw material costs. Gross profit margin was 18.4 percent and 17.8 percent for the first quarter of 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Operating profit was $37.6 million for the first quarter of 2025 compared with operating profit of $36.9 million for the first quarter of 2024. The $0.7 million increase was primarily due to lower SG&A expenses, partially offset by the same factors that impacted gross profit. Adjusted EBITDA was $45.2 million for the first quarter of 2025 compared with $44.7 million for the first quarter of 2024. The $0.5 million increase in Adjusted EBITDA was primarily due to the same factors that impacted operating profit.

Sustainable Fiber Solutions

Our Sustainable Fiber Solutions segment produces and sells fiber-based packaging products, including fiber drums, containerboard, corrugated sheets, corrugated containers, uncoated recycled board, coated recycled board, tubes and cores and specialty partitions made from containerboard, uncoated recycled board and coated recycled board. In addition, this reportable segment is involved in the management and sale of timber, timberland and special use properties in the southeastern United States.

Net sales were $561.4 million for the first quarter of 2025 compared with $528.8 million for the first quarter of 2024. The $32.6 million increase was primarily due to $25.8 million from higher published containerboard and boxboard prices.

Gross profit was $103.4 million for the first quarter of 2025 compared with $88.3 million for the first quarter of 2024. The $15.1 million increase in gross profit was primarily due to the same factors that impacted net sales, partially offset by higher raw material costs. Gross profit margin was 18.4 percent and 16.7 percent for the first quarter of 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Operating profit was $3.6 million for the first