Hello. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our comments on the results of the Q2 and half of 2022. We once again delivered a Q2 that reinforced our agile execution in the integration of new businesses. Both the new categories and the international acquisitions made in the last fiscal year reflect our positioning as a Brazilian multinational company with one of the most complete product platforms and leading brands in the LatAm food market. It is worth noting that this data does not include our most recent acquisition, as shown on slide 3, which consists of the announcement of Camil's entry into the biscuits and cookies category in Brazil. We acquired Mabel and together with it, the licensing of the Toddy brand for cookies in the country.
The Mabel brand is a sales leader in cookies in the country and the second top of mind brand in cash and carry, an important sales channel for us. We also signed a licensing agreement for the Toddy brand for the production of cookies, the second most sold brand of chocolate cookies in Brazil with over 98% brand recall among consumers. This new acquisition reinforces the positioning that we have been emphasizing to the market of adding well-known brands to our portfolio and in categories with high growth potential and increased added value. Furthermore, we can reinforce our competitive advantage as a food platform in LatAm due to our geographic coverage, which offers cross-selling growth potential, as well as the expansion of Camil's presence in the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast of Brazil.
We have proven that we can identify and integrate acquisitions in the company that yield gains in terms of supply, commercial, and G&A synergies. Cookies, in particular, enters Camil, increasing our exposure to the wheat chain after the successful integration and monetization of the newly acquired pasta operation in Brazil. It's also worth mentioning that the transaction is not yet concluded. We are operating independently until the closing date, which we hope will occur in early November. With Mabel's acquisition, we point out that we total BRL 1.3 billion in acquisitions since the IPO, with the last five accounting for BRL 1 billion in the period between 2021 and 2022, adding four new categories to our portfolio, pasta, coffee, healthy products in Uruguay, and after its due completion, cookies as well. We have also added a country to our list of operations with the entry into Ecuador.
We are very happy with these transactions and are committed to integrate these acquisitions in an agile and profitable way, further exploiting our competitive advantage of cross-selling, gains in economies of scale, and leading brands in the food market. Moving on to the financial highlights, Camil posted quarterly and half-year results that demonstrate our growth momentum with gains of scale, in addition to the agile execution of the business transformation for rapid growth and the integration of synergies with the acquisitions made. Our gross revenue in the quarter was BRL 3 billion, up 22% and close to BRL 6 billion in the Q1 , up 14% year-over-year. Our EBITDA was BRL 209 million in Q2 2022, growing 9%. For the first half period, EBITDA was BRL 453 million, up 21% year-on-year.
The EBITDA margin for the quarter was 7.7% and for the year to date was 8.9%. Although it has been a challenging year for the food industry due to the impacts of adverse political and economic scenarios in Latin American countries, the result of the period reflects a business model that works with resilience. Even in the face of high levels of raw material prices and higher expenses for industries, our execution is focused on the integration of a portfolio with higher added value and price pass-through. This allows to minimize the effect of these challenging scenarios. This is achieved by having products that are in the regular basket of our consumers by having one of the most complete product platforms and by offering leading brands in the Latin American food market that cater to all consumer niches.
Now, turning to the operating results, we highlight the 14% growth in total sales volume in the quarter, driven by the company's international volume. This result was mainly due to the year-on-year growth in Uruguay in addition to the entry of the new categories in Brazil. If we look at the analysis by category, starting with rice, volumes showed a reduction compared to the previous year, mainly impacted by a slowdown in the retail market in August at the end of our quarter. The price levels of rice in the market have remained high, and today they trade above the average of the quarter, around BRL 77, according to Cepea Esalq. In beans, we continue to deliver good results. We posted growth in volumes and recovered the category's profitability, which was under pressure in Camil's last fiscal year.
We continue to see a positive trend, sustaining the result of last year's volumes, which reached a growth milestone of more than 20% in the year. In sugar, the scenario was a little bit more challenging in terms of volumes, but we are gradually returning to the usual sales volume base for the category after the stock out experienced in the Q4 of last year. We also highlight that sugar prices remain high, increasing further when compared to the previous year. It is worth mentioning that the retail downturn in rice last August also impacted the category in the period. In fish, we are gradually recovering the volumes in this category, which was impacted last year and in the Q1 of 2022 by the reduced availability of sardines, which continued difficulties in sourcing local and imported raw materials.
Now we are already seeing the company's historical profitability levels as well as volumes slowly returning to normal levels. In the international segment, volume grew 49%, driven by increased sales in Uruguay, with greater availability of rice for exports in the year. In Peru and Chile, the volume of packaged rice sales and profitability continued to be pressured by the political and economic scenario of the countries, as well as by rising inflation in the LATAM region. With regards to new international operations, in Ecuador, we reported our Q3 consolidation of operations to the group, focusing on efficiency actions and commercial structure. We started to see excellent results in profitability and sales this year as a result of our initiatives in the country.
In Uruguay, we worked on the integration of Saman's internal market, a company with a portfolio of several healthy products focused on sales to the local market. Both initiatives will allow the company to evaluate and apply efficiency and commercial actions to maximize the profitability of the operations. Finally, on slide 12, we present the performance of the new categories in Brazil. In pasta, we recall the acquisition of Santa Amália, the fourth largest company in the pasta segment in the country, with leadership in the state of Minas Gerais. Santa Amália holds more than 40% of the pasta market share in Minas Gerais, a region with great growth potential in terms of geographical complementarity with the other Camil categories, especially grains.
We posted a quarter with continued optimal and profitable results in the pasta category in a scenario of prices and execution of supplies and sales that allows the category to continue operating with margins higher than historical. In addition to pasta, the quarter includes the second result for the launch of Camil's coffee business. We entered the category at the end of March 2022 with an operation that continues steadily ramping up sales, reaching a volume of 3,400 tons in the quarter, an increase of 49% in relation to the previous quarter, now accumulating 5,400 tons in its first five months of operation.
We remind you that our operation today in Varginha, Minas Gerais, one of the main coffee producing regions in the country, is in the phase of capacity expansion from 36 to 60,000 tons per year, ensuring product availability and sales execution. We are investing in advertising and publicity and are expanding our reach mainly in São Paulo and into some new regions. The scale we have presented to you in the agile integration of the acquisitions were part of the great achievements of the period. After the latest transactions, the company enters into a new phase of growth and of capturing gains and synergies with categories that leverage higher added value and boost one of our competitive advantages.
We seek to increase operating and admin efficiencies in order to consolidate the robustness acquired without losing the simplicity inherent to our history, which lead us to always do more with less. With a robust platform of strong brands, leadership positioning and market know-how, we start a new cycle reinforcing our responsibility and agility. We are increasingly confident that the company is on the right path to anticipate trends and strengthen our position as a consolidator in the Latin American food industry. Now to elaborate further on our financial performance in the quarter and half year, I turn the floor over to Flavio. Please, Flavio, you may proceed. Thank you, Luciano. Starting the analysis of the financial performance, we reached the milestone of over BRL 3.1 billion in gross revenue for the quarter, with net revenue of BRL 2.7 billion.
Revenue grew more than 20%, driven by the entry of the company's new pasta and coffee businesses in Brazil by international volume growth and by higher mix prices in the period. COGS also grew due to prices in the entry into the new categories. As a result, our gross profit reached BRL 571 million, 32% higher than in the previous year, with a margin of 21% for the quarter. SG&A totaled BRL 420 million, a 46% increase representing 15% of net revenue. The nominal increase in the quarter was due to the growth in SG&A Brazil, with higher selling expenses due to the entry of the new acquisitions made by the company, increased freight and advertising costs. General and admin expenses also showed growth in Brazil due to expenses with the entry of the new businesses.
It is worth noting that excluding the new businesses, the increase in G&A Brazil was below inflation in the period. The increase in the quarter was also driven by SG&A International as a result of higher selling expenses in Uruguay and the startup of our operations in Ecuador. Taking all of these factors into consideration, EBITDA for the quarter was BRL 209 million, up 9% with a margin of 7.7%. Net income was BRL 94 million, a 12% reduction due to higher financial expenses, mainly attributed to higher interest on financing stemming from the increase in interest rates in the period. It's worth mentioning that year-to-date, in addition to the gains of scale and revenue growth with the new acquisitions, our EBITDA amounted to BRL 888 million, up 17% with a margin of 8.9%.
Our year-to-date result in the half year or in the last 12 months, maintaining the margin close to 9% reinforces the company's defensive model, even in the face of adverse scenarios at the LatAm level, as already mentioned by Luciano. The company's total debt reached BRL 3.8 billion due to new funding to cope with the recently announced acquisitions. Net debt over EBITDA for the last 12 months reached 2.6x at the end of the period. CapEx for the period was BRL 42 million, with maintenance investments and some expansion projects. It is worth mentioning the postponement of part of the scheduled expansion projects of the company due to the new level of interest rates in the market.
We point out that we canceled 10 million treasury shares in the period following the start of our new buyback program in effect, our seventh buyback program since the IPO. We have 360 million shares in total and are currently repurchasing up to 10 million shares within 18 months. Finally, in ESG, we aligned our actions to the strategic pillars disclosed to the market on the last Camil Day regarding purpose and people, quality and sales, and efficiency and growth. To that end, our sustainability report available to you at the CVM and on the IR site of the company, provides an update of our actions that is consistent with Camil's business planning for the coming years and in line with our focus on taking actions that are positive for our surroundings.
The highlights of the quarter are the continuity of zero accident projects in occupational safety, renewable energy, and circular economy with energy generation from rice husk, our main waste from the grain operation. In addition, we emphasize social capacity building projects such as the Doce Futuro União 2.0, with a new course available that will take place this year in person and aims at promoting female entrepreneurship and the Itaqui School project, which provides training for skilled labor around our Itaqui plant in Rio Grande do Sul, aligning Camil's need for skilled labor with community capacity building.
In governance, we would like to point out that we published the report on the Brazilian Code of Corporate Governance, which was already a recognized market highlight within the company's ESG actions, and we showed an even greater evolution in the number of compliant practices suggested by the CBCG when compared to the previous year, going from 81%-85% of compliant practices. In closing, as already highlighted by Luciano, we are focused on leveraging the synergies of the new acquisitions and waiting for the completion of the cookies deal, which will bring additional challenges while consolidating our position as a LatAm food company with recognized brands and higher value added categories. We remain at your disposal for the Q&A session in case you have any further questions. Thank you very much.