ALBA SE reported earnings results for the first quarter of 2015. The company generated earnings before taxes (EBT) of EUR 8.7 million in the first quarter of 2015 and thus clearly improved its EBT over last year. Earnings before taxes stood at EUR 2.1 million in the previous year's first quarter which is EUR 6.6 million less than 2015. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation and shares in profits of associated companies (EBITDA) also improved in the first quarter of 2015 to EUR 13.0 million compared to EUR 7.8 million in the year before. Sales revenue grew only slightly by 2.6% to EUR 382.4 million against EUR 372.8 million for the same period a year ago.

For the 2015 financial year, the company expects in total a moderate increase in sales revenue, a slight rise in EBITDA and a strong increase of EBT compared to 2014.