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Juhayna Food Industries, the Egyptian dairy and juice company founded by businessman Safwan Thabet, posted a 20 percent drop in consolidated net profit in 2025 even as revenues climbed sharply, according to financial statements filed to the Egyptian Exchange on March 15.
The company reported consolidated profit attributable to the parent company of EGP 1.909 billion for the twelve months ended December 31, 2025, down from EGP 2.735 billion in 2024. That 19.99 percent decline came despite net sales surging to EGP 29.984 billion from EGP 24.302 billion a year earlier, a jump of roughly 23 percent.
The divergence between revenue growth and profit contraction reflects pressure on margins that Egyptian consumer goods companies have faced across the board as input costs and currency dynamics squeezed earnings even while top-line numbers climbed.
On a standalone basis, the picture was starkly different. Juhayna's standalone net profit after tax came in at EGP 1.292 billion in 2025, a dramatic turnaround from just EGP 21.527 million in 2024, underscoring how the consolidated and parent-company numbers can tell different stories depending on how subsidiaries performed across the group.
Juhayna was founded in 1983 by Thabet, an Egyptian engineer who built the company from a startup dairy producer into Egypt's largest maker of packaged milk, juice and cooking products. The company listed on the Egyptian Exchange in May 2010 and is included in the benchmark EGX 30 index. It has a licensed capital of EGP 5 billion. Through his investment vehicle Pharon Investments Limited, Thabet controls a majority stake of 50.1 percent in the company.
Thabet's story at Juhayna has been punctuated by one of Egyptian corporate history's most dramatic episodes. He was detained in December 2020 on terrorism-related charges, followed two months later by his son Seif. Neither was convicted. The family denied all wrongdoing, and Amnesty International reported that the detentions were connected to the family's refusal to cede assets to a state entity. Both were released in January 2023, after spending roughly two years in custody. Thabet's wife, Bahira Elshawi, died during their detention.
Since the family's return, Juhayna has resumed its expansion drive. The company has outlined export ambitions spanning the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and Asia, and has entered a strategic cooperation with Fawry for digital payment integration. Its agro-industrial network spans five industrial subsidiaries alongside sales, logistics and agricultural production operations.
The 2025 results land as Egypt's listed consumer goods sector navigates a period of elevated inflation, currency pressures and rising operational costs, all of which have complicated the relationship between revenue growth and profit delivery across the market.
