November 22 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian sugar and ethanol producer Zaharni Zavodi [BUL:ZHZA] said on Wednesday that its consolidated net profit slumped to some 4.5 million levs ($2.5 million/2.3 million euro) in the nine months through September from 27.5 million levs in the same period of 2022, chiefly due to higher expenses.