Bloomberg Astra's 2008 Profit Rises 41% After Car Sales Reached a Record

Astra's 2008 Profit Rises 41% After Car Sales Reached a Record
2009-02-27 09:08:38.283 GMT

By Widya Utami
Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- PT Astra International, Indonesia's biggest publicly traded company by sales, said profit last year rose 41 percent after car and motorcycle sales reached a record.
Net income at the company, which sells cars made by Toyota Motor Corp. and motorcycles by Honda Motor Co., rose to 9.19 trillion rupiah ($767 million), from 6.52 trillion rupiah a year earlier, the Jakarta-based company said in a statement to the Indonesia Stock Exchange today. Sales rose 38 percent to 97.06 trillion rupiah.

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