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gas & heating · margin diagnosis

Two business units, two routes to margin recovery

~R$5.5M turnover · 2 business units · Brasília

+R$519k

projected wholesale CM

+9.3 pp

retail product margin

The cascade from revenue → COGS → margin → contribution margin, broken down by business unit. Each one called for a different move.

what we did

  • Analysed product margin % and contribution margin % between 2025 and 2026, decomposing the revenue → COGS → margin → CM cascade by unit
  • Retail unit: product margin recovered from 36.2% to 45.5%, with CM held stable despite a 32% drop in revenue
  • Wholesale unit: revenue +32% and CM jumping from R$864K to R$1.38M (+60%) with a 5.1 pp margin improvement

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