The South Korean firm’s monetary outcomes had been introduced on 31 July.
In Q2 2025, it recorded general gross sales of KRW1.60tn (USD1.14bn) and working revenue of KRW54.8billion (USD39m), marking a lower of 8.8% and 65.4% respectively, in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months.
For its magnificence division, gross sales in Q2 2025 decreased 19.4% year-on-year to KRW604.6bn (USD432m), and working revenue turned to a lack of KRW16.3bn (USD11.67m).
In line with LG H&H, though key channels akin to home well being and wonder outlets, Amazon in North America, and the Japanese market continued to develop quickly, intensifying market competitors throughout the board led to elevated price burdens.
Moreover, the restructuring of conventional channels within the native market, akin to duty-free outlets, additionally contributed to the decline in efficiency.
The corporate’s House Care & Every day Magnificence (HDB) division includes primarily mass private care merchandise, together with oral care and hair care.
In Q2 2025, HDB’s gross sales reached KRW542bn (USD387m), a 2% enhance year-on-year, however working revenue fell 7.1% to KRW28.6 billion (USD20.4m).
“Whereas home gross sales continued to hunch, strong responses for premium manufacturers in abroad markets drove gross sales progress. Dr.Groot achieved an 800% year-on-year gross sales enhance within the first half of this 12 months alone, pushed by speedy recognition on North American Amazon and TikTok,” LG H&H acknowledged.
As well as, oral care model EUTHYMOL can be strengthening its model place, specializing in the Japanese and North American markets.
Then again, the lower in working revenue is alleged to be because of elevated mounted prices and expanded advertising and marketing investments.
Future-focused investments
LG H&H has continued to make “future-focused investments”, together with the debut of luxurious skincare model The Whoo within the west.
The model entered the North American market with the launch of its premium anti-ageing line named Hwanyu, which implies “a return to youth” in Korean, at Frieze Artwork Honest, a world-renowned annual occasion held in New York.
Focused at rejuvenating and revitalising the pores and skin, the formulation on this vary incorporate components like wild ginseng and a posh containing over 70 oriental herbs to deal with numerous indicators of ageing.
The Whoo additionally secured a brand new progress engine via the acquisition of LG Electronics’ magnificence tech model, LG Pra.L, in June this 12 months.
LG Pra.L has since launched a brand new residence magnificence system, Superform Galvanic Booster, alongside a devoted skincare line referred to as Glasslike.
The small and transportable system is designed to be a one-minute day by day skincare routine, with key capabilities together with boosting product absorption and enhancing outcomes when used with Glasslike merchandise.
“Our prime precedence is to enhance elementary company worth, together with augmenting our present companies and securing new progress engines via mergers and acquisitions (M&A). We’re sustaining the identical proactive stance towards M&A as we now have up to now to bolster future progress,” LG H&H stated.
