EQS-News: Third quarter 2025: FORVIA HELLA keeps sales stable at previous year’s level

Lippstadt (Germany)

17 October 2025

Third quarter 2025: FORVIA HELLA keeps sales stable
at previous year’s level 

• Group sales increase slightly by 0.4 percent on a currency-adjusted basis to €6.0 billion in the first nine months of 2025; reported sales amount to €5.9 billion
• Business Group Electronics grows in all regions, mainly due to high demand for radar sensors
• CEO Bernard Schäferbarthold: “We have kept sales stable in a volatile market environment and are in line with our expectations”

HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA (“FORVIA HELLA”) today announced the sales figures for the first nine months of fiscal year 2025 (1 January to 30 September 2025). Accordingly, Group sales increased slightly on a currency-adjusted basis by 0.4 percent to €6.0 billion; reported sales, at €5.9 billion, remained at the previous year’s level.

Bernard Schäferbarthold, CEO of FORVIA HELLA: “In the first nine months of the year, our business continued to prove robust. Despite a persistently challenging industry environment, we were able to keep sales at the previous year’s level and are thus in line with our expectations. Particularly encouraging is the fact that, on the one hand, our Electronics business worldwide continued to develop very successfully due to high demand for our radar sensors in particular. On the other hand, the stabilization in our Lifecycle Solutions business, which had already begun at the end of the first half of the year, continued in the third quarter. Overall, however, we monitor the further increasing uncertainty caused by fluctuations in production volumes and intensified strains across global supply and logistics chains, while consistently evaluating the evolving situation.”

In this context, Group sales in the first nine months of fiscal year 2025 were driven by the Business Group Electronics. Here, sales improved by 5.6 percent year-on-year to €2.6 billion (previous year: €2.4 billion). Main driver was sales growth in the radar business in all regions, both through the launch of new customer projects and the further ramp-up of existing series production. In the European and Chinese markets, FORVIA HELLA benefited from increased demand for vehicle access systems; in China, the business with low-voltage battery management systems developed successfully as a result of series launches last year.

In the Business Group Lighting, sales decreased by 8.5 percent to €2.7 billion (previous year: €3.0 billion). The reasons for this are, on the one hand, the general market weakness with declining vehicle production especially in Europe, and, on the other hand, the phase-out of various high-volume customer projects in China and the American markets. Higher production volumes for individual headlamp and rear lamp projects in Europe and the Americas could only partially offset this.

In the Business Group Lifecycle Solutions, sales decreased by 4.2 percent to €0.7 billion (previous year: €0.8 billion). Although the independent aftermarket business developed generally stable in connection with an expanded offering in Asia, the business development of the Business Group was adversely affected by low investments made by manufacturers of commercial vehicles, especially in the agricultural and construction machinery sector, in connection with a continued weak economic environment. However, with slight sales growth in the third quarter, the recovery in the commercial vehicle business that began in the second quarter continued due to positive momentum from business with agricultural and construction machinery manufacturers.

The full financial results for the first nine months of fiscal year 2025 will be published as planned on 7 November 2025.

Note: This text and suitable images can also be found in our press database at: www.hella.com/press