In a volatile environment that impacted the whole industry, PUMA delivered strong growth and profitability fully in line with the outlook. Without the extraordinary devaluation of the Argentine peso, which had a significant one-off accounting impact, our results would have been even stronger. This outcome reflects the strong underlying performance of PUMA and we were only able to achieve this because of our amazing PUMA Family and all of its fantastic partners.
2023 was also an important milestone year for PUMA as we started to lay the foundation for future growth based on strengthening our brand and improving our distribution quality. We are today in a better position than we were at the start of 2023: We established a new marketing organization and started to execute our new marketing strategy to elevate the brand. We also built new management teams in the US and China to execute our local must-win strategies and cleared our inventories to healthy levels.
Going into 2024, we see that the market environment remains challenging. As we are working through this ongoing challenging trade environment together with our retail partners with a clear focus on sell-through and prudent sell-in especially in the US and Europe, we expect a softer first half of the year. The persistent adverse currencies will also continue to be a pressure on the profitability in the first half 2024. On the back of great product newness and ongoing brand momentum, we expect an improvement quarter-over-quarter leading to a currency adjusted mid-single digit growth and improved operating result in the range of 620 – 700m EUR for the full year.
2024 - the Year of Sports - will be another important year for PUMA in which we will launch great product innovations, such as our fastest football boot Ultra and our fastest running shoes Fast-R2 and Deviate NITRO Elite 3. In Sportstyle, we will continue to deliver exciting newness with the Palermo catering for the current terrace trend and the Suede XL for the skate trend. We believe that “low profile”, which is undeniably PUMA’s hometurf, will be the next big thing and we are fully prepared with the relaunch of PUMA’s famous Mostro and Speedcat. Furthermore, we will launch our first brand campaign in 10 years to underline our positioning as the Fastest Sports Brand in the world and deepen our emotional connection with our consumers. 2024 will be another year where we will demonstrate that PUMA is the Challenger in the market.
ARNE FREUNDT, CEO
Share price in €
8602
Sales
in € million
2023
622
EBIT
in € million
2023
21164
Employees
2023
Sales by product divisions 2023
in € million
- Footwear
- Apparel
- Accessoires
Sales by Regions 2023
in € million
- EMEA
- America
- Asia/Pacific
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