{"id":343999,"date":"2011-03-28T07:55:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T07:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/28\/irn-bru-maker-sees-profit-sparkle\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T07:55:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T07:55:44","slug":"irn-bru-maker-sees-profit-sparkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/28\/irn-bru-maker-sees-profit-sparkle\/","title":{"rendered":"Irn Bru-maker sees profit sparkle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"50.742880390561\">\n    \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>28 March 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>03:55 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The maker of Irn Bru has reported a sharp rise in annual profits and improved sales in the past two months.<\/p>\n<p>AG Barr reported pre-tax profits of \u00a330.4m for the year to the end of January, up 25% on the \u00a324.5m the company made a year earlier. Revenue rose by more than 10% to \u00a3222.4m.<\/p>\n<p>The firm said it had seen strong growth in all core brands.<\/p>\n<p>However, it warned that the industry faced higher input costs and continuing consumer caution this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AG Barr has maintained its track record of strong financial performance, delivering double-digit sales and profit growth despite the challenging economic environment,&#8221; said the group&#8217;s chief executive, Roger White.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The soft drink sector will face tough comparative trading across 2011, as well as further cost volatility and general economic uncertainty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As well as Irn Bru, the Cumbernauld-based firm makes Orangina, Tizer, Rubicon and Ka drinks.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more from the original source:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/business-12877944\" title=\"Irn Bru-maker sees profit sparkle\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Irn Bru-maker sees profit sparkle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 28 March 2011 Last updated at 03:55 ET The maker of Irn Bru has reported a sharp rise in annual profits and improved sales in the past two months. AG Barr reported pre-tax profits of \u00a330.4m for the year to the end of January, up 25% on the \u00a324.5m the company made a year earlier. Revenue rose by more than 10% to \u00a3222.4m<\/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-343999","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>Irn Bru-maker sees profit sparkle - 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\/03\/28\/irn-bru-maker-sees-profit-sparkle\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Irn Bru-maker sees profit sparkle - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"28 March 2011 Last updated at 03:55 ET The maker of Irn Bru has reported a sharp rise in annual profits and improved sales in the past two months. 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