Friday, April 22, 2011

HPI Resources 3Q net profit jumps 121% to RM6.94m

KUALA LUMPUR: HPI RESOURCES BHD [] net profit for the third quarter ended Feb 28, 2011 soared 121.5% to RM6.94 million from RM3.13 million a year earlier, driven by higher demand.

Revenue for the quarter rose by 11.6% to RM105.43 million from RM94.46 million in 2010, while earnings per share was 12.43 sen.

For the nine months ended Feb 28, 2011, HPI's net profit rose 32.2% to RM20.63 million on the back of revenue RM314.66 million.

In a statement Friday, April 22, HPI group managing director Albert Chan Chor Ngiak said the strong performance was primarily the result of both its paper milling and corrugated packaging divisions demonstrating double-digit expansion in revenues and operating profits.

'We are reaping the fruits of better cost management and higher productivity measures put in place.

'The group is poised to mark strong outperformance for FY2011,' he said.

On the company's prospects, Chan said that HPI had not only developed a diverse and reputable customer portfolio, but more importantly partnered in their growth as they ramped up their manufacturing activities to meet increasing global demand for consumer products.

'At the same time, we have honed our business model to achieve highly-efficient operations.

'Coupled with our ongoing efforts to integrate our paper mill operations with our packaging manufacturing division, we believe that we are ready to capture even more market share in future,' he said.

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