A slight sales increase for the motorcycle division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries failed to yield any parallel hike in profitability, according to the group’s brief full-year financial statement to 31 March 2015.
Revenue from bikes and related products was hardly supercharged like the brand’s flagship H2, growing by just 2.2% to £1.81bn. That represented 22.1% of KHI’s total sales, down from 23.3% in the previous financial year. And operating profit from the sector rolled backwards too, with a fall of 7.3% to £82m.
Overall, KHI revenue rose by 7.2% to £8.16bn. Operating profit climbed by 20.6% to £479.3m. Net profit was up by 33.8% to £283.6m.