PPC profit falls 25%, admits to cartel activity

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South African cement producer Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) on Wednesday reported a 25 percent drop in net profit for the 2009 financial year to R1.1-billion, while also admitting that the company had, in the past, participated in "market-sharing" activity.

PPC had recorded a R1.5-billion net profit in the 2008 financial year, but warned, in October, that a finance charge related to a broad-based black economic empowerment deal would impact on its earnings.

The group's revenues increased by 8 percent  to R6.8-billion in the year ended September 30, 2009, compared with R6,2-billion the year before.

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