1. Profit before tax increased by 40% on last year.

2. First half profit before tax fell by 12% to ￡44.5m at Laporte; eps fell by 6% to 18.8p. Building materials.

3. Prudential Corporation reported that first half profit before tax rose by 46% to ￡249m.

4. Reuters reported a half year profit before tax of ￡187.4m, a rise of 10.2% on the previous period.

5. SmithKline Beecham announced that second quarter profit before tax rose by 10% to ￡254m.

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6. First half profit before tax fell by 12% to ￡44.5m at Laporte; eps fell by 6% to 18.8p.

7. Interim profit before tax rose by 17% to ￡84.7m at Burmah Castrol.

8. The enlarged Group made ￡1,371,000 profit before tax in the six months compared to ￡1,886,000 in the same period last year.

9. The Sekers Group profit before tax fell from ￡0.8m to a loss of ￡0.1m on sales marginally higher.

10. Profit before tax at Bass rose by 16.5% to ￡501m in the year to 30 September 1992.

11. In the year to 30 September, profit before tax rose by 65% to ￡54.5m at Securicor.

12. Strong trading in overseas markets helped first half profit before tax rise by 12% to ￡88.5m at Redland.

13. Smiths Industries reported that profit before tax fell by 7% to ￡102.2m in the year to 1 August.

14. The above is the profit before tax.

15. The company said today that first-half adjusted profit before tax dropped 6.1 percent to 385.5 million pounds from 410.5 million pounds a year earlier.

16. From preliminary analysis to the profit and loss statement, we could get some basic information such as gross margin, operating profit, profit before tax and net profit etc.

17. Economical Data : Estimated sales value RMB 1.2 billion and profit before tax RMB 250 million per year.

18. Outlined below are countries which, in 2007, generated the top 20 profit before tax figures, with the addition of the U. S as specific issues exclude that country from the top 20 for 2007.

19. Kesa fell 8.9 percent to 137.4 pence after Europe's third- largest electronics retailer said profit before tax would be at the lower end of market estimates after sales dropped at Christmas.

20. Economical data : estimated sales value RMB 1050 million and profit before tax RMB 200 million per year.