Slovenia's Mercator sees strong H1 net profit growth

Consolidated revenue edged up 0.4% on the year to 1.06 billion euro, while the results from operating activities (EBIT) rose to 30 million euro in the first half, which is an increase of 77% over the same period of last year, Mercator said in a filing to the Ljubljana Stock Exchange.

The Mercator Group's EBITDA totalled 83.0 million euro in the January-June period. In the like period of the preceding year EBITDA amounted to 48.1 million euro, according to restated data.

($ = 0.91091 euro)