Hamburg-headquartered Helm has announced 201C sales worth just under €8bn, up 61 per cent on the €4.9bn achieved in 2009. The company expects tc post a consolidated net profit of €56.6m, a jump ol 21 per cent on the prior year's total of €46.6m. Helm says it plans "to use the income earned to furthei consolidate its finances" and provide for its ongoing future independence. "Our policy of in-depth research into products and markets has enabled us to record further expansion. Our targeted marketing policy is shaped by our approach based on being top of the class in few fields rather than mediocrity in mass," it says. "The approach embarked on in recent years of focusing on the company's core markets and selected products is also being consistently followed this year. We had a good start to the early months of 2011; accordingly, we anticipate that a similarly good end-of-year result will be recorded as in the year 2010," the company continues.
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