ECONOMIC
Development

Overall development in 2025

Rosenbauer is one of the world’s leading providers of integrated system solutions for preventive firefighting and disaster protection. Overall development for 2025 was very positive for Rosenbauer. Firstly, the order backlog rose to €2,354.6 million (2024: €2,279.8 million), well above the Group’s annual revenues. Secondly, sales rose by 9.4% to €1,429.0 million and earnings rose to €84.5 million. With the successful capital increase and the completed refinancing deal, Rosenbauer has also strengthened its financial base and created important conditions for the company’s future development.

Rosenbauer’s strongest sales regions are Europe, North America, and the Middle East; the largest individual markets are the USA and Germany.

Despite this generally stable development, short-term disruptions – caused by geopolitical tensions, logistics bottlenecks, or regional delivery shortfalls, for example – remain a relevant risk for material supplies and planning security. At the same time, price pressures for critical components continued. Rosenbauer countered this with various measures including stepping up negotiation initiatives in Europe and the US, expanding specific framework contracts with strategic suppliers, and securing material supplies early. In addition, cooperation with suppliers was further intensified in order to stabilize availability, quality, and conditions. As a result, delivery times for firefighting vehicles have slowly shifted back toward the long-term average.

Consolidated revenues/EBIT (in € millon)

Consolidated revenues

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2024
2023

EBIT

Development of revenues and earnings

Revenues 

At €1,429.0 million, revenues in 2025 were 9.4% higher than the previous year’s level (2024: €1,305.9 million). Vehicle deliveries to customers worldwide increased by approximately 4%.

Sales areas

The Group’s strongest product segment in terms of revenues was Vehicles, with a share of revenue of around 78% (2024: 75%) and revenue of €1,115.8 million. This was followed by Customer Service, which generated revenues of €132.6 million (2024: €118.4 million), accounting for 9% (2024: 9%) of total revenues. The revenue contribution of the Equipment segment was 9% (2024: 9%) and that of the Other Revenues segment was 3% (2024: 4%). Preventive Fire Protection generated revenues of €3.4 million (2024: €37.4 million), thus contributing 1% (2024: 3%) to consolidated revenues.

Cost of sales rose to €1,154.0 million (2024: €1084.0 million). Gross profit increased by 23.9% to €275.0 million (2024: € 222.0 million). The gross profit margin rose to 19.2% (2024: 17.0%).

Revenues by areas in 2025

Cost development

At €808.2 million (2024: €742.9 million), cost of materials accounted for the largest share of cost of sales. Personnel expenses increased to €260.8 million (2024: €236.7 million). At €16.4 million, depreciation and amortization expenses on property, plant, and equipment and intangible assets were similar to the previous year (2024: € 13.6 million).

Structural costs comprise expenses for research and development, sales, and administration. At €192.4 million, these were significantly higher than the previous year’s figure of €169.8 million. Capitalized research and development costs fell from €5.6 million to €5.1 million in the reporting period.

Other expenses of €6.9 million (2024: €0.4 million) were offset by other income of €8.8 million (2024: €13.1 million). Other expenses mainly contain the goodwill impairment of Rosenbauer Brandschutz Deutschland GmbH in the amount of €4.2 million.

Result of operations

As a result of the increased gross profit, the Rosenbauer Group is reporting much improved EBIT of €84.5 million for the 2025 financial year (2024: €64.9 million). The measures to increase efficiency made a significant contribution to this result.

The financing costs dropped in the 2025 financial year due to the capital increase and the subsequent refinancing, resulting in a financial result of €–29.9 million (2024: €–38.6 million).

Earnings before taxes (EBT) amounted to €54.7 million (2024: €26.3 million).This resulted in a substantially positive result for the period of €55.2 million (2024: €29.8 million).

The non-controlling interests held by the partners at Rosenbauer Aerials, Rosenbauer Española, Rosenbauer South Africa, Eskay Rosenbauer Brunei, and Rosenbauer Saudi Arabia accounted for a share of earnings of €4.5 million in the reporting year (2024: €2.8 million).

Orders

In the past year, the Rosenbauer Group recorded order intake of €1,570.0 million (2024: €1,705.2 million). Order intake remained very good overall, reflecting ongoing solid demand.

At €2,354.6 million as of December 31, 2025 (2024: € 2,279.8 million), the order backlog was above consolidated annual revenue.

Incoming orders/order backlog as of Dec. 31 (in € million)

Incoming orders

2025
2024
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Order backlog

Vehicle revenue by category in 2025

Vehicles delivered

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2023