rebuy recommerce FY2024 Financials: €221m Revenue, Valuation Gap and the Consolidation Question
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TL;DR: Key Findings
- rebuy reported Group revenue of €221.2m in FY2024 (+2.9% YoY), materially below management’s double-digit growth assumption, with consumer electronics +5.7% and Disc Media -3.4%.
- Group EBITDA of €5.1m (FY2023: €8.0m) on a 2.3% margin produced a Group net loss of €4.8m, with the Group equity ratio collapsing to 2.9% from 11.9% and the standalone HGB equity ratio falling to 7.6% from 13.5%.
- The standalone equity ratio triggered a bank covenant renegotiation against FY2025 and FY2026 forward planning, with no shareholder injection required, credit lines fully accessible throughout, and €15.97m of headroom on the €35.7m facility at year end.
- The FY2025 management signal of €243m revenue (+9%), EBITDA growth of +106% and a return to net profit implies forward EBITDA of approximately €10m to €11m on the historical post-loss recovery playbook.
- Filed shareholder accounts disclose a material valuation gap between FRS 102 mark-to-market and HGB acquisition cost positions, with no impairment recorded by any institutional shareholder in FY2024.
- Full valuation analysis included in the report, with three reference points, two methodology approaches and a defensible range for sector consolidation and strategic exit scenarios.
- Full analysis also available as a downloadable report at reports.finsur.co.uk
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Rebuy Recommerce GmbH is a German integrated recommerce operator, founded in Berlin in 2004, approximately €220m FY2024 revenue, with €21m of growth capital raised in 2018 in a round led by European PE firm Evoco alongside Keyhaven and Headway1. Recommerce Group is a French trade-in and refurbishment operator, founded in 2009, approximately €210m FY2025 turnover2, recently expanded into Switzerland via the acquisition of Verkaufen.ch3. They are entirely separate entities with no announced business relationship as of May 2026. Not to say it would be a bad idea, given what filed accounts show about the economics of European recommerce right now. Which brings me to the point of this article…
Recap
Rebuy traces back to trade-a-game GmbH, a video games trading business founded in Hofheim am Taunus, Hesse, by an eighteen year old Marcus Börner under a Gesellschaftsvertrag dated 11 August 2004 and entered into the commercial register on 15 September 2004. The entity relocated to Berlin in 2007 (HRB 109344, Amtsgericht Charlottenburg). It was renamed reBuy reCommerce GmbH in July 2011, with the business purpose formally expanded to include consumer electronics in October 2011, and restyled as rebuy recommerce GmbH in November 2021. Today the business operates an integrated buy-refurbish-resell model with revenue split 73% CE and 27% media. Alongside MusicMagpie, which began similarly, Rebuy is the only operator in the Finsur dataset with material media exposure. Company operations remain in Berlin with the device processing facility located in Żerniki, just outside Poznań, Poland and the management team has been broadly stable, with Dr. Philipp Gattner as CEO since early 2019 and Marcel Erian holding both COO and CFO roles following Thomas Loock's departure as CFO in late 2025.
Evoco, a Zurich-based private equity firm, has held a position in Rebuy since before 2018 (acquired via Evoco's purchase of the DuMont Mediengruppe portfolio by Evoco TSE II LP), led the March 2018 €21m financing round alongside Keyhaven and Headway, and increased the Evoco-led consortium position to a majority via a December 2020 share purchase. No external funding round has been announced since. In fact the only material corporate development activity was the 2021 acquisition of Technology Recycle Group based in High Wycombe, on the grounds of accessing the UK market and some pricing software. A year later Rebuy booked an 81% impairment in FY2022 and then dissolved the entity via voluntary strike-off on 30 July 2024. Cripes.
Finsur has covered Rebuy three times across the previous fifteen months. The European Marketplace Research Update of February 2025 reported FY2022 alongside the wider organised CE recommerce sector. The Rebuy research update of June 2025 reported FY2023's return to operating profitability. The European CE Recommerce Market Analysis of April 2026 reported FY2024's reversal at the consolidated level. This report builds on those earlier pieces with deeper analysis on the consolidated FY2024 picture and what it implies for the FY2025 trajectory. Let’s dive in…
Performance
Consolidated revenue reached €221.2m in FY2024, up 2.9% on FY2023’s €214.9m. Growth has roughly halved in each of the last three years, decelerating from 12.4% in FY2022, to 5.7% in FY2023 and 2.9% in FY2024. Management's own Prognose-Ist-Vergleich described the result as 'noticeably below expectations, which had assumed double-digit growth'.
On a like-for-like basis, Rebuy’s consumer electronics segment grew 5.7% in FY2024 to €160.4m. Within the filed integrated operator cohort, asgoodasnew, the closest direct competitor, grew 6.1% on €144.3m. Swappie’s headline 20.0% growth on €248.7m was carried by a €44.5m increase in the Rest of Europe, offsetting a 13.1% decline in Finland. Rebuy's own commentary noted that international revenue was slightly below the prior year in absolute terms whilst international profitability was slightly above, leaving the domestic German market as both the carrier and the brake on the consolidated number. Recommerce (self-reported and unfiled) claimed approximately 15% growth on €175m. Outside the integrated operators, Refurbed’s marketplace GMV reached €688m on 19.3% growth which perhaps signals consumer preference, or stronger marketing activity in the year.
Offsetting Rebuy’s consumer electronics growth, Media revenue declined 3.4% to €60.8m which moved the portfolio split from approximately 71/29 in FY2023 to 73/27 in FY2024 and continuing the directional shift visible across earlier years (FY2021: 65/35; FY2022: 70/30). Absent the media decline, group revenue growth would have been closer to 4%. Sales through Rebuy's own platform reached 88% of total revenue in FY2024, up from 84% in FY2023, with the residual continuing to flow through third-party marketplace channels.
Revenue per employee at the consolidated level reached €365k in FY2024 against €350k in FY2023, an improvement of approximately 4.3% driven by the combination of revenue growth and modest headcount reduction (from 614 to 606 average employees). Across the filed integrated operator cohort, asgoodasnew posted approximately €844k per employee on a smaller, leaner workforce and Swappie approximately €320k. Rebuy sits between the two. The variance reflects different operating models: asgoodasnew operates with a tighter team and higher device average selling price, Swappie carries a larger workforce inclusive of customer service and refurbishment scale across multiple geographies, and Rebuy combines a German integrated operation with the Polish refurbishment subsidiary.
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Full profitability analysis covering the gross margin compression, the mix shift mechanics, the personnel cost outlier and the basis-of-profitability question across the four-year window.
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