with the company reporting, the narrative was:
Inghams Group plunged 20 per cent to $2.83 after a 10.2 per cent drop in full-year net profit to $90 million. Its result and outlook were both below market expectations.
It will strip out up to $80 million in costs and has forecast weaker-than-expected profits for the year after supermarket giant Woolworths restructured its contract with the company and expanded the number of suppliers it uses.
Ingham's remains Woolworths’ largest supplier of chicken, but the retailer has cut the contract volumes in two steps, most recently in February.
Ingham's was caught with too much stock in the June quarter after it misread the broader market dynamics while it adjusted to supplying Woolworths with less chicken, hurting margins as it offloaded more poultry through wholesale markets