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• The Executive Board reported at the in-person meeting on the successful 2025 financial year and on how Krones plans to continue on its path of profitable growth.
• Innovative products and services are the basis for the company’s long-term success.
• Shareholders are to receive a dividend of €2.80 per share for the 2025 financial year, 7.7% higher than in the previous year.
• Last Annual General Meeting for longstanding CEO Christoph Klenk

The 46th Annual General Meeting of Krones AG was held today as an in-person event at marinaforum in Regensburg. Attendance – the proportion of the company’s share capital represented at the meeting – was some 83.72%. Shareholders adopted all agenda items submitted for voting with a large majority.

Krones well positioned in growing markets

Chief Executive Officer Christoph Klenk told shareholders that the 2025 financial year was marked by many challenges, which the entire Krones team successfully mastered. Numerous geopolitical risks also persist in the current year. Despite all the uncertainties, Krones remains realistically optimistic and expects the profitable growth path to continue in 2026.

“Krones’ markets will continue to offer good growth opportunities in the future,” Klenk said. Thanks to its broad global footprint, Krones is ideally positioned in the steadily growing, less cyclical food and beverage market.

Innovative products and services are the basis for the company’s long-term success

An important growth driver in the market is the digitalisation of beverage plants. Krones already offers a wide range of digital products and services that provide its customers with measurable added value. The trailblazing Ingeniq line generation, unveiled by Krones at drinktec 2025, plays a key role here. At the trade fair, Krones furtheron showcased a range of innovative products and services from all three segments. Alongside innovation, key elements of Krones’ growth strategy are investment in domestic and international sites and acquisitions.

Krones met all Group financial targets in 2025 and remains firmly committed to net-zero emissions target

Chief Financial Officer Uta Anders took shareholders through the financial and non-financial key performance indicators for the 2025 financial year. Despite negative currency translation effects, Krones increased revenue by 7.0% to €5.66 billion. Krones also significantly improved the two other financial KPIs – the EBITDA margin and ROCE. Uta Anders also reported to shareholders that Krones made good progress on its non-financial key performance indicators in 2025. Krones remains firmly committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero along the entire value chain by 2040.

Dividend increased to €2.80 per share

Krones is to distribute a dividend of €2.80 per share for the very successful 2025 financial year, 7.7% higher than in the previous year (previous year: €2.60 per share).

Executive Board confirms guidance for 2026 and mid-term targets for 2028

At the Annual General Meeting, the Executive Board confirmed both the forecast for the 2026 financial year and the mid-term targets for 2028. These comprise revenue of around €7 billion, an EBITDA margin of 11% to 13% and ROCE of more than 20%.

For long-serving CEO Christoph Klenk, this was his final Annual General Meeting as member of the Krones AG Executive Board. Klenk has been on the Executive Board since 2003 and became CEO in 2016. In accordance with the company’s long-term succession planning, Klenk retires from the Executive Board on 10 June 2026. The new CEO will be Thomas Ricker, who has been on the Executive Board since 2012.

Volker Kronseder, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, paid tribute to the long-standing and highly successful work of Christoph Klenk and thanked him on behalf of the entire Supervisory Board for his great dedication.