Saturday, Dec 08, 2012

(This article was first published on Thursday)

BEIRUT (Zawya Dow Jones)--Kuwait's Tamdeen Investment Co. (TAMINV.KW) on Thursday said that one of its local units has signed an initial contract to sell its real estate investment for 11.62 million Kuwaiti dinars ($41.29 million).

The investment consists of a vacant plot of land in the country's Sabah Al Salem area and the KWD256,500 profit realized on its sale will be recorded in the 2012 fourth-quarter results, Tamdeen said in a statement posted on the Kuwait bourse website.

The subsidiary is Al Madina Al Thaniya General Trading and Contracting Co. and is 99.9% owned by Tamdeen, according to the statement.

Write to Shikrallah Nakhoul at shikrallah@zawya.com

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