Ciment de Sibline SAL, the third largest cement producer in Lebanon, said net profit for 2008 reached LBP9.8bn (US$6.5m).

Total assets came to LBP243.2bn, the company said today in a statement published in Annahar newspaper.

Ciment de Sibline, which is owned by Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, said it will pay a LBP214 cash dividend per share, the same as a year earlier.