{"id":280124,"date":"2011-02-24T07:31:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T07:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/24\/british-gas-sees-profits-up-24\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T07:31:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T07:31:43","slug":"british-gas-sees-profits-up-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/24\/british-gas-sees-profits-up-24\/","title":{"rendered":"British Gas sees profits up 24%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"34.4109589041\">\n        \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>24 February 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>02:31 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Operating profits at British Gas rose 24% in 2010 to \u00a3742m, its parent company Centrica has said.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes two months after the UK utility announced a 7% rise in domestic energy bills, which it blamed on rising wholesale prices.<\/p>\n<p>British Gas said it had increased its number of customers by 267,000 during the year to 16 million.<\/p>\n<p>The results helped Centrica to achieve pre-tax profits of \u00a32.8bn, with operating profits up 29% to \u00a32.4bn.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/business-12563988\" title=\"British Gas sees profits up 24%\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British Gas sees profits up 24%<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 24 February 2011 Last updated at 02:31 ET Operating profits at British Gas rose 24% in 2010 to \u00a3742m, its parent company Centrica has said. The news comes two months after the UK utility announced a 7% rise in domestic energy bills, which it blamed on rising wholesale prices. British Gas said it had increased its number of customers by 267,000 during the year to 16 million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>British Gas sees profits up 24% - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/24\/british-gas-sees-profits-up-24\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"British Gas sees profits up 24% - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"24 February 2011 Last updated at 02:31 ET Operating profits at British Gas rose 24% in 2010 to \u00a3742m, its parent company Centrica has said. 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