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TABLE-S.Korea KT&G Q1 net profit rises 51 pct y/y

Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:08pm EDT

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 April 23 (Reuters) - Three months to March 31, 2008
                              (in billions of won)
                          Q1 2008        Q1 2007
  Net Profit                   196.2          130.2
  Operating profit             207.3          156.4
  Revenue                      561.7          515.5
 Note: KT&G Corp (033780.KS) is South Korea's biggest tobacco
company, controlling 70 percent of the world's seventh-largest
cigarette market.
 (Reporting by Park Ju-min in Seoul; Editing by Keiron Henderson)

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