Half Year Report
Cooks Coffee Company Limited
("Cooks Coffee", or the "Company" or the "Group")
Cooks Coffee Company (NZX:CCC; AQUIS:COOK), the international coffee focused café chain, operating Esquires ( the organic coffee company) announces its results for the six months ended 30 September 2025.
Period Highlights
Group revenues increased by 111% to NZ$5.77m (2025: NZ$2.74m)
Significant increase in growth was derived from Company managed stores in Ireland following the partnership with Dairygold.
excluding the Dairygold partnership the like-for-like revenue was $3.27m with a 19.3% growth.
new flagship location in Mallow, Cork opened in June 2025 and is now the second highest sales store in the Group and was selected in the final grouping for stores in the prestigious national annual Retail Excellence Ireland Awards.
Group EBITDA for the period was NZ$0.61m, compared with NZ$0.81m last year. The previous year contained a credit adjustment of $166k if normalised the EBITDA is down 5% from the prior year.
Company Net Profit before tax from Continuing business was NZ$0.068m compared to a Net Profit of NZ$0.53m last year.
Total store sales in the UK increased by 26.7% to NZ$33.2m as the development in suburban areas and smaller market towns gained further momentum. Like for like sales in the UK were up +3.5%.
Total sales in Ireland increased +27.4% to NZ$12.3m. Like for like sales in Ireland were up +6.4%.
Overall store sales for UK & Ireland increased +26.9% to NZ$45.5m.
Operating stores at the end of September were 96 in UK & Ireland, up from 85 at the end of March 2025.
The first of the stores in partnership with Tesco in Ireland opened in Tullamore a town of almost 16,000 population in County Offaly in Leinster Province.
This opening brings total stores open between UK & Ireland to 100 at the date of preparing this report.
During the period NZ$1.769m of debt reduction has occurred, with interest costs reducing by NZ$66k compared to FY25.
Enquiries:
Cooks Coffee Company Limited
Keith Jackson (Executive Chairman)
keith.jackson@cookscoffeecompany.com
64 21 702 509 (New Zealand)
Angela Griffen
angela@angelagriffen.com
64 275 780889 (NZ)