Egypt's Eastern nets $150m profit
Cairo, July 21, 2010
Egypt's Eastern Company posted an unaudited net profit of 851.9 million Egyptian pounds ($150 million) for the full year to end-June, up 2.6 percent from a year earlier.
The cigarette monopoly made 830.4 million pounds in fiscal 2008-09, it said in a statement sent to the stock exchange.-Reuters
