On July 30, Kumho Tire announced its performance forecast for the first half of 2025, showing a strong development trend.
In the first half of 2025, Kumho Tire achieved revenue of 2,427.5 billion won (equivalent to approximately 12.3 billion yuan), a year-on-year increase of 11.5%; operating profit was 321.7 billion won (equivalent to approximately 1.6 billion yuan), a year-on-year increase of 8.3%.
In particular, in the second quarter, it achieved revenue of 1,221.3 billion won (equivalent to about 6.2 billion yuan), with revenue exceeding 1 trillion won for 7 consecutive quarters, creating the highest quarterly sales performance in history since the company was founded. Operating profit was 175.2 billion won (equivalent to approximately 900 million yuan), with an operating profit margin of 14.3%, setting a record for the best performance in history.
With the continuous improvement of global brand recognition and continuous breakthroughs in technological innovation, Kumho Tire has set a new benchmark for high-quality development around the world.
Since this year, Kumho Tire has continuously deepened its global development strategy and continued to optimize the world’s leading intelligent manufacturing system, supply chain system and sales network. Its market competitiveness has gradually improved, driving both revenue and profits to increase.
Korea securities analysts pointed out that in the first half of this year, Kumho Tire continued to optimize its global sales network, expand the proportion of high value-added products, optimize its product mix through the expansion of original equipment (OE) tire supply and the growth of the replacement (RE) tire market such as high-yield tires, and continued to maintain steady sales growth in global markets such as North America, Europe and China.
Kumho Tire relies on the world’s leading intelligent manufacturing system and AI digital twin design platform to continuously improve its technological leadership and product competitiveness. Many products have repeatedly won good results in professional tests and product selections.
High-performance brand ECSTA’s “Ecsta Sport S” won first place in the European Auto Bild summer tire special evaluation, and won second place in the TIRE RACK extreme performance summer tire evaluation, a well-known American tire evaluation and retail platform; “Ecsta Sport” won the “Excellent” rating in the Die Reifentester high-performance tire evaluation, and won second place in the TIRE RACK ultra-high performance summer tire evaluation.
Two products, “EnnoV PREMIUM” and “EnnoV WINTER”, won the German “Red Dot” Design Award; two products for future mobility, “Volume” and “Origami”, won the German iF Design Award.
In response to the different requirements of global market segments, Kumho Tire has achieved breakthroughs in R&D efficiency and product performance, and has continuously launched competitive and differentiated products.
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.
Kumho Tire emphasized: “We will regard this year as the first year for the leap forward of high-end brands, strengthen the global market position and maximize customer value through all-round value innovation in brand, products, technology and operations.” In the future, Kumho Tire is expected to continue to maintain a good development trend in the global market and bring more high-quality products and services to consumers.
