Summary The Board of Directors and the Management of FirstFarms A/S have today reviewed and adopted the un-audited quarterly account for the period 1 January - 30 September 2008. Highlights - In the accounting period, FirstFarms has achieved a turnover of DKK 41.1 million, an EBIT result of DKK -3.3 million and a pre-tax result of DKK -0.8 million. In Q3, the turnover was DKK 13.9 million, the EBIT result DKK -4.9 million and the pre-tax result was DKK -4.1 million. - The underlying operation of field and milk production has under one been satisfactorily and is in 2008 estimated to be DKK 2.2 million better than expected. - In Q3, the result has been highly influenced by external circumstances because of considerable drops in commodity prices and exchange rate adjustment in Slovakia where the currency has increased considerably. - The effect of falling commodity prices on corn, oilseed and raw milk has caused a profit decrease of DKK 9.1 million in the period and DKK 14.0 million in the result expectations for the year. - The exchange rate effect in the accounts has in total caused an equity increase of DKK 11.0 million, but results in increasing costs regarding salary and depreciations with DKK 1.1 million in Q3 and with DKK 2.2 million in the result expectations for the year. - Consequently, FirstFarms scales down the result expectations with DKK 13 million, so that a turnover of DKK 72-78 million, an EBIT result of DKK -7.2 to -5.2 million and a pre-tax result of DKK -4.5 to -1.5 million is now expected. - As a result of the increased business risks in Russia and Ukraine, FirstFarms has adjusted its investment criteria and is at the moment only investing in Slovakia and Romania. The criteria of investing a maximum of 40 % of the shareholders' capital in a single country are therefore no longer in force.
Quarterly report for the period 1 January - 30 September 2008 for FirstFarms A/S
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