[ET Net News Agency, 28 March 2018] China Agri-Industries (00606) said its profit
attributable to owners for the year ended 31 December 2017 soared 114.4% year-on-year to
HK$3,042 million.
Basic and diluted earnings per share were HK57.95 cents and HK57.87 cents.
Revenue from continuing operations amounted to HK$87,856 million, an increase of 12.6%
from a year earlier.
The Group proactively expanded the business scale to raise production capacity and
deeply propelled detail-oriented management to consolidate and raise profitability of its
products during the year, resulting in the overall gross profit of the Group rose 30% to
HK$6,379.5 million and the gross profit margin up 1.0 percentage point to 7.3% as compared
with last year (restated).
The proposed final and special dividend are HK0.9 cent (2016: HK5.4 cents) and HK20
cents (2016: nil) per share, payable on or around 20 July. (HL)