HUL aims 22-24% Ebitda margin in medium term, to hike capex to 3%: CEO

Leading FMCG company Hindustan Unilever is targeting a 22-24 per cent EBITDA margin in the medium term and stepping up capital expenditure to 3 per cent of its turnover to chase growth. The FMCG major plans to increase capital expenditure (capex) to "enable growth and productivity" from 2 per cent, the level it maintained over the last five years, to 3 per cent, as it looks to capture the "New India opportunity" with consumption growth. Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL), part of Unilever Plc, the British multinational consumer packaged goods company, registered a revenue of Rs 63,763 crore in FY26 and has 21 brands in its portfolio, each with turnover of more than Rs 1,000 crore. It sells 85 billion packs in a year and has a wide reach of 9 million outlets. The company, which is focusing on cost management, has an EBITDA margin of 23.6 per cent for FY26, down by about 70 basis points year-on-year. HUL, which aspires to "volume-led profit growth", is "shaping the portfolio structurally .