September 24 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian pawnshop chain operator Sofia Commerce-Pawn Brokerage [BUL:6SOB] said on Thursday that its non-consolidated net profit rose to 427,000 levs ($254,000/218,000 euro) in the first quarter of 2020 from 346,000 levs in the same period of 2019.
The company's operating revenue increased to 1.5 million levs in the first three months of the year from 1.4 million levs in the same period of 2019, Sofia Commerce-Pawn Brokerage said in an interim financial statement.
Operating expenses edged up to 1.1 million levs in the review period from 1 million levs the year before, due to higher expenses for salaries.
Sofia Commerce-Pawn Brokerage operates a chain of over 100 pawnshops in Bulgaria, employing around 150 people.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)