A year earlier the profit before extraordinary items was 1.65 billion marks.

It had sales last year of $1.046 billion and earned $30.7 million before extraordinary items.

The industry earned $2.8 billion from operations, before taxes and nonrecurring items.

But income before extraordinary items fell 27 percent, to $20.9 million, from $28.7 million for the period last year.

The operating loss before exceptional items in 2010/11 was £38.3m.

Last year the bank earned 1.2 billion euros before taxes and exceptional items.

In 1989 the institution had net earnings of $13.7 million, or $3.10 a share, before extraordinary items.

The 1989 year's income before items included a gain of $20,951,000.

Last year, Nabisco earned $1.13 a share before extraordinary items.

Income before extraordinary items rose to $406.7 million, from $251.5 million.