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Vietnam's Vinamilk Jan-July net jumps 29.5 pct y/y

Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:27pm EDT

HANOI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Vinamilk VNM.HM, Vietnam's top dairy firm, said on Wednesday it made a net profit of 812 billion dong ($49.23 million) during the first seven months of this year, up 29.5 percent from the same period last year.

The Ho Chi Minh City-based company, the second-largest firm on the country's main stock exchange .VNI, said its January to July revenues rose 27.5 percent from a year earlier to 4.77 trillion dong.

The seven-month results are unaudited. ($1=16,495 dong) (Reporting by Ho Binh Minh; Editing by Ben Tan)



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