Solid Energy Coals of New Zealand released record sales and production figures for Y/E 30 June 2006

摘要

Record sales of 570 million dollars ((2005: S401 million) and record production of 4.67 million tonnes (2005: 4.46 mt) produced a record after-tax profit for the year ended 30 June 2006 of 85.8 million dollars for Solid Energy New Zealand Ltd. The company paid a 20 million dollars dividend to the shareholder, the Government, in the year. Solid Energy Chairman, Tim Saunders comments: "While the year has been challenging on a number of fronts, high export prices and continuing strong New Zealand sales have returned the record after-tax profit. This is in contrast to the position last year when pre-tax asset write-downs of 46 million dollars reduced after-tax profit to 6.3 million dollars.