Egypt’s Ameriya Cement profit up 73 per cent

Egypt’s Amreya Cement reported net profit of 129.3 million Egyptian pounds (US$22.4m) for the first nine months of 2005, a 73 per cent increase on a year earlier, the stock exchange said on Monday.   The firm reported net profit of 74.6 million pounds in the same nine-month period to the end of September, 2004.