Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Royal Ceramics Advances to 52-Week High After Profit Gains



By Anusha Ondaatjie

Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Ceramics Lanka Plc rose to a 52-week high in Colombo trading after reporting a higher nine- month profit.

Royal Ceramics rose to as much as 170 rupees and was trading 4.6 percent higher at 165 rupees at 10:45 a.m. on the Colombo Stock Exchange.

Net profit rose 59 percent to 1.02 billion rupees ($9.2 million) in the nine months ended Dec. 31, from 650 million rupees a year earlier, the manufacturer and retailer of ceramic products said late yesterday.

To contact the reporter on this story: Anusha Ondaatjie in Colombo at anushao@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Tuhin Kar at tkar1@bloomberg.net

source - noir.bloomberg.com

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