On August 13, Kumho Tire announced its financial data for the second quarter and first half of 2025.
It is worth noting that Kumho Tire achieved outstanding results in the second quarter, with revenue of 1,221.3 billion won (equivalent to approximately 6.2 billion yuan), operating profit of 175.2 billion won (equivalent to approximately 900 million yuan), and operating profit margin of 14.3%, all achieving the best performance in a single quarter.
Driven by the strong momentum in the second quarter, Kumho Tire’s overall performance achieved rapid growth in the first half of the year.
Revenue was 2,427.5 billion won (equivalent to approximately RMB 12.3 billion), a year-on-year increase of 11.5%; operating profit was 321.7 billion won (equivalent to approximately RMB 1.6 billion), a year-on-year increase of 8.3%.
Industry insiders pointed out that the rapid growth of Kumho Tire’s performance is due to its unique development strategy, continuously improving global brand recognition and technological innovation capabilities, which together drive the continuous improvement of performance and shape its core competitiveness for the future.
Since this year, Kumho Tire has continued to promote its global layout and focus on high-yield markets.
Steady sales growth was maintained in North America, Europe and China. Compared with the same period last year, sales increased by 24.1% in North America, 12.9% in Europe and 12.8% in China.
At the same time, by optimizing the world’s leading intelligent manufacturing system, supply chain and sales network, it will drive the growth of the new car supporting tire supply and replacement tire market.
In particular, high value-added large-size tires and new energy tires performed brilliantly. In the second quarter, Kumho Tire’s large-size tire sales accounted for 43.4%, and new energy vehicle supporting supplies accounted for 20.3%.
In terms of research and development and product innovation, Kumho Tire is also constantly achieving new breakthroughs, and many products have repeatedly won good results in professional tests and product selections.
“Ecsta Sport S” won the first place in the European Auto Bild summer tire special evaluation, and won the second place in the TIRE RACK extreme performance summer tire evaluation of the well-known American tire evaluation and retail platform; “Ecsta Sport” won the “Excellent” rating in the Die Reifentester high-performance tire evaluation, and won the second place in the TIRE RACK ultra-high performance summer tire evaluation.
In 2025, Kumho Tire launched the winter tire “WinterCraft WP52+” in the European market, which won praise for its excellent snow and wet braking performance; it launched the all-season tire “SOLUS ADVANCE” for sedans in the Korean market, which improves user driving experience and effectively reduces fuel consumption, and is recognized by users and the market.
Relevant analysts pointed out that Kumho Tire is expected to continue to focus on the North American, European and Chinese markets in the second half of the year, and strengthen its profitability and achieve annual goals by optimizing its product portfolio and increasing the proportion of high value-added products.
Kumho Tire also stated that 2025 is the first year for Kumho Tire’s high-end brand to make a leap, and it will strengthen its global market position through continuous innovation in brand, products, technology and operations.
