The Shalimar (Malay) Estate Company Ltd., a unit of the Carsons conglomerate listed on the Colombo bourse, said group profit after tax fell to 78.7 million rupees in the year ended March 31, 2007 from 222.4 million rupees the year before. Group turnover was 48.3 million rupees compared with 57.8 million rupees the previous year.
At company level, it made a net profit after tax of 34 million rupees compared with 178 million rupees the previous year.
This included a 168 million profit on the disposal of the firm's investment in group companies, The Shalimar (Malay) Estate Company's chairman Hari Selvanathan said in his annual report.
The company had a turnover of 49 million rupees compared with 32 million the year before.
The financial performance was affected by the drop in the crop mainly because of prolonged drought seen during the year, although this was partly off-set by increasing c