May 6 (SeeNews) - Romanian car maker Automobile Dacia, a unit of France's Renault, said on Friday its net profit rose 20.4% to 447.9 million lei ($113 million/99.5 million euro) last year while turnover edged up 1.8%.
Dacia remained Romania's largest company in terms of turnover, as sales reached 19.16 billion lei last year compared to 18.83 billion lei in 2014, it said in a financial statement posted on its website.
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Its operating profit rose to 462.8 million lei last year from 459.4 million lei in 2014.
Worldwide sales of Renault under its Dacia brand rose a modest 0.1% to 339,179 vehicles last year, and most popular models were the Duster SUV and the updated Logan and Sandero models.
In March, Renault group named Yves Caracatzanis as the new director general of Dacia and Renault Romania.
Renault bought Romania's Automobile Dacia, an ailing state company at the time, in 1999.
Dacia topped the SeeNews ranking of the biggest companies in Southeast Europe by total revenue for 2014, surpassing Romanian oil and gas firm OMV Petrom.
(1 euro = 4.5013 Romanian lei)
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