Talaat Moustafa full-year net falls 39pc
Cairo, March 7, 2012
Egypt's Talaat Moustafa Group said its full-year net profit fell 39 percent last year when the real estate industry was thrown into turmoil by a popular uprising and disputes over land ownership.
The decline was narrower than a 44 percent drop in first-half earnings. TMG reported full-year profit of 577.5 million Egyptian pounds ($95.72 million), down from 940 million in 2010.
Total sales for projects were around 3 billion pounds, down from 4 billion a year earlier. Revenues - including money received once clients take ownership of properties - slipped to 5.1 billion from 5.34 billion, the company said in a statement. -Reuters