British American Tobacco Kenya Posts 22% Increase in Profit

Source from:  Bloomberg 03/02/2009

British American Tobacco Plc's Kenyan unit posted a 22 percent increase in full-year profit, helped by increased sales of the leaf on contract and "prudent cost control." Net income climbed to 1.7 billion shillings ($21.3 million) in the 12 months through December, from 1.39 billion shillings a year earlier, Nairobi-based British American Tobacco Kenya Ltd. said in a statement published in the Daily Nation newspaper today. Enditem