Sunday, Apr 29, 2007

CAIRO (Zawya Dow Jones)--Egypt's Alexandria Mineral Oil Co., or AMOC, said Sunday nine-month net profit for the period ending March 31 grew 33% to 678.8 million Egyptian pounds ($119.4 million) compared with EGP509.2 million a year earlier.

The company's financial year starts on July 1.

In a statement on the Web site of the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchanges, the company didn't give a reason for the rise in profit.

-By Maha El Dahan, contributing to Dow Jones Newswires, +20122267850, mahaeldahan@yahoo.com

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