Pretax profits were 14.7 percent below their levels in June of last year.

That compared with a pretax profit of L112.1 million a year earlier.

A year earlier, pretax profit was L144 million before charges.

The company's pretax profits of $1.72 billion were the highest ever.

The company said last week that its pretax profit had dropped 20.4 percent in the first half of the current year.

If he has held them all, his potential pretax profit was worth only $78.7 million by last Friday.

Indeed, it earned more than $1 billion in pretax profits last year.

For this year, analysts have expected a pretax profit of less than $100 million.

Pretax profits for the individual disability business fell 53 percent to $14.8 million.

In the six months ended September, its pretax profits were double those of a year earlier.

That compares with £494.8 million in pretax profit the previous year.

Over all, pretax profits would have been down, but for the lift brought on by inflation.

Last year, the company reported third-quarter pretax profit of L285 million.

Last year, Columbia reported pretax profits of $83.5 million, but in fact did better than that figure indicated.

Without this gain, the company realized a pretax profit of $1.2 million for the quarter.

Last year, Saatchi's pretax profits were up by only 11 percent.

In the previous year, pretax profit was L545 million.

Last year, pretax profits more than doubled, hitting $2.9 million.

Pretax profits were up by 8.5%, reflecting the heavy cost of investment in the company's growth, he said.

The higher prices for copper contributed $2.6 billion to the company's pretax profit.

Pretax profits of the still privately owned company are estimated at $700 million.

For those years, Sotheby's annual pretax profits were about $265 million.

The company's annual sales of all its products total $9 million, and pretax profit margins are 18 percent.

Sales were steady, but pretax profits eroded by about 10 percent.

Pretax profit was 3.99 billion euros, 9.6 percent less than a year earlier but meeting the company's target.