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Dufil Prima Foods Limited has cemented its dominant market position in Nigeria’s noodles sector, accounting for over 60% market share, which has underpinned sustained revenue growth and strong cash generation despite intensifying cost pressures in recent times.

Revenue grew 30% to ₦1.1 trillion ($697.3 million) in 2025, supported by inflation-induced price reviews and gradual volume recovery, according to data seen by MoneyCentral.

However, rising cost pressures from higher input costs and elevated marketing expenses targeted at boosting sales volume translated to a contraction in both absolute EBITDA and EBITDA margin to ₦84.5 billion (2024: ₦92.7 billion) and 8% (2024: 11.4%) respectively in 2025.

Market position

Dufil’s competitive position is anchored on its leading market position in Nigeria’s noodles industry, where it accounts for over 60% market share.

The group benefits from a strong customer base, an extensive distribution network and consistent promotional activities that have strengthened brand equity and deepened market penetration. Strong shareholder support continues to underpin supply chain stability and foster ongoing product development, sustaining the brand’s appeal to young demographics in Nigeria.

Revenue concentration

These strengths are partly offset by high revenue concentration, with noodles accounting for more than 74%, while other business lines—including flour, pasta, snacks, packaging and palm oil—contribute a combined 26% in 2025. Analysrs expect noodles to remain a dominant contributor to topline, supported by plans to expand noodle production capacity in 2026.

Nevertheless, the completion of the flour plant expansion in Q3 2026 is expected to modestly increase the contribution of the flour business and support margins in the snacks segment.

Future outlook

Given the recently established pricing base, with no expectation of broad-based price increases in the near term, analysts expect future revenue growth to largely be driven by higher traded volume on the back of the proposed increase in production capacity. This, combined with more stringent cost control measures as evidenced during Q1 2026, should contain EBITDA margins around 9% over the outlook period.

Debt management

The leverage and capital structure assessment remains negative though evidencing improving debt management lately. Gross debt reduced to ₦96.2 billion on 31 December 2025 (31 December 2024: ₦163.6 billion) and further to ₦79.6 billion in Q1 2026, driven by management efforts to deleverage its balance sheet from expensive borrowings.

The modest debt level, complemented by substantial cash balances and sustained robust earnings, translated to an improvement in leverage metrics.

Liquidity position

The liquidity position has slightly improved on robust cash holding of ₦44.6 billion (including restricted cash of ₦20.8 billion) as of March 2026, adequate to cover the anticipated short-term debt obligations of ₦47.9 billion over the next nine-month period to 31 December 2026.

Although refinancing risk remains high with short-term debt accounting for above 40% of total debt, liquidity is further supported by sizable, unutilized committed facilities of ₦106.5 billion indicating the company’s wide access to funding sources.

The anticipated higher capital spending of ₦32.5 billion over the next 21 months to December 2027, as well as projected higher dividend payments in view of robust prior-year profits, is sufficiently covered by the projected robust operating cash flow.

Outlook

Dufil Prima Foods’ 60% noodles market share provides a durable competitive moat, but the company’s heavy revenue concentration in a single product line exposes it to volume shocks and pricing pressure.

The 30% revenue growth in 2025 was driven primarily by price increases rather than volume, and with no broad-based price increases expected in the near term, future growth will depend on production capacity expansion and market share gains.

The flour plant expansion completion in Q3 2026 should modestly diversify revenue and support snacks segment margins, but noodles will remain the dominant revenue driver. Investors and creditors will monitor the company’s ability to execute its production capacity expansion while maintaining EBITDA margins around 9% in an environment of elevated input costs and marketing expenses.

https://moneycentral.com.ng/exclusive/article/dufil-prima-foods-revenue-hits-%e2%82%a61-1-trillion-controls-60-of-nigeria-noodles-market/

After that attempt to discredit them, they have been very aggressive in the way they stormed the market.

They responded with more grit and determination.

They didn't spend much productivity time trying to quel the rumours or offer too much explanations.

I give kudos to their management team, particularly the market strategy (Go-To-Market) team.

People still consume poison with there money and later troop to hospitals for medication

Indomie is the GOAT of noodles in Nigeria.
Same as MTN is the GOAT of service provider in Nigeria, even though it is South Africa owned.

It's like it's only Dangote that can offer competitive services among all indigenous owned organisations in Nigeria. Others, including Glo are just figure-heads.

Most of the consumables and other services in nigeria are not sold or rendered at the real and humane prices, everyone is capitalizing on the bastadized economy to cause havoc.

Indomie is doing something right...

Companies have a thing or two to learn about marketing from them.


Even dangote couldn't compete!

People still eat that salty food. I bought one overseas and literally had to junk it. It had something in the range of 60-80% sodium.
The idomie sold in North America on the other hand has only about 30% salt which is still considered too high.

The dish out product at exorbitant prices and pack excess gain running into trillions at the cost of Nigerians. Every organization in Nigeria are now racking profits in Trillions which is shared among the few executives.

No wonder all of them are doing more of contract staffs, so the can be paying them peanuts, and NLC are not saying anything,

Please why would a Nigerian be made contract staff in his own country??

If only Nigerians would embrace healthier food choices 😫😫😫

In this economic recession, people go for cheaper foods hence more profit for the cheap foods companies. See business ideas

decatalyst:
After that attempt to discredit them, they have been very aggressive in the way they stormed the market.

They responded with more grit and determination.

They didn't spend much productivity time trying to quel the rumours or offer too much explanations.

I give kudos to their management team, particularly the market strategy (Go-To-Market) team.

What attempt ro discredit them?

Foreign companies keep making huge monies from Nigeria, since the government won't fund small scale business to grow into large scale.

Old taker never diessss

0taPiaPia:
Most of the consumables and other services in nigeria are not sold or rendered at the real and humane prices, everyone is capitalizing on the bastadized economy to cause havoc.

After you agree the economy is bad and bastardized, so business should Sell at losses? What exactly do you want man?

This is the only business that Dangote couldn't win and had to surrender to them by selling off its own noodle business to them.

Dangote did everything but in the end he surrendered to them.... Remember, there was a time it was said that people died after consuming indomie. Then, the government closed down indomie and nafdac seized all the stocks in their warehouse for some time. That should be around 2006 - 7. In the end, the truth came out. No error was found with indomie. Indomie has been consistent since entering the Nigerian market in the early 90s

Indomie noodles has got to be the most unhealthy snack in Nigeria, the smell is gross and even watching people eat it disgust me, this food is pure poison.

emmanbol:
After you agree the economy is bad and bastardized, so business should Sell at losses? What exactly do you want man?

Read my write-up again.
I talked about profit margin

emmanbol:
After you agree the economy is bad and bastardized, so business should Sell at losses? What exactly do you want man?

Businesses shouldn't sell/operate at loses...


But the profit they make is too much and it would seem they are exploitative and taking advantage of the citizenry!

i worked t dufil till i resigned last year as a marketing officer... the terrible pay structure there is depressing .. i was earning 279k there till sept. last year after 4 years.... the indians are who we worship and work for , they get paid in thousands of dollars , free housing , free cars and drivers and cooks, but a nigerian cant even save 1k from his salary....again, an indian that met you and learnt on the job become your boss immedailty ... you can not grow at all over there. such a bad place to work

Konjiboii:
Indomie noodles has got to be the most unhealthy snack in Nigeria, the smell is gross and even watching people eat it disgust me, this food is pure poison.

How do you people come up with these kind of stories that something is poisonous? The fact that it's a non African food makes it poisonous abi?

Something that has been in Asia and Europe for several centuries before arriving in Nigeria

And how come you think you know better than NAFDAC ?

Konjiboii:
Indomie noodles has got to be the most unhealthy snack in Nigeria, the smell is gross and even watching people eat it disgust me, this food is pure poison.

Your nose can sniff out poison...?

Who is eating all the noodles? With the rate of kdney disease everywhere in Nigeria, Nigerians should mind what they eat

Indomie is a very highly processed meal with high sodium and we know that excess sodium intake causes the body to retain fluid, putting extra pressure on blood vessels and forcing your heart to work harder, significantly increases the risk of developing high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease

Indomie's nutritional value is low and I don't eat it.

Stanna2025:
People still consume poison with there money and later troop to hospitals for medication

my friend in the US said indomie has a label on it that said this food causes cancer unlike the ones made in nigeria

0taPiaPia:
Most of the consumables and other services in nigeria are not sold or rendered at the real and humane prices, everyone is capitalizing on the bastadized economy to cause havoc.

Exactly my thought, the way those company producing consumables inflate their prices you will think Nigeria is at war. Even though the economy is bad the hike in prices of goods and services is something I still wonder about.

And one of the reasons I dislike about this government, inability to control prices of these items.

Junk called food!
Congratulations to them!
The addicted eaters will bear the consequences!

The world has abandoned nature's foods!
God's ordained foods and drinks!

And we are reaping heavily from what we eat and drink paying for what makes us sick and die in ignorance.

From Big Farm to Big Junk to Big Pharma and the Medical Mafia to finish the job set by the god of this world!

zenburster:
The only market that conquered the serial monopolist, and Oligarch, Dangote.

The man tried to muscle Dufil out of the market they created with tears and blood, but ended up selling his Noodles business to Flour Mills for #1.

Yes, that figure isn't mistake.

One naira.

Dangote noodles was sold to Dufil while his flour business CFM was sold to olam.

What is the value of the 1.1 trillion naira in dollars?
Always rate funds based on value not volume!
Just because you were earning a salary of 60k in 2017 and now earning 220k doesn't imply that you have more money!

Na First Class graduate Dufil dey employ o.

All those motivational speakers always saying 3rd Class graduate are more creative, Dufil doesn't share your sentiment