United Breweries today reported a net profit of Rs 40.09 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2011.
The company had posted a net profit of Rs 26.15 crore in the corresponding quarter of previous fiscal.
Total income during the fourth quarter of fiscal stood at Rs 860.48 crore and the same for the year ago period was at Rs 595.61 crore, United Breweries said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).
The company said its figures were not comparable with the year-ago period due to the merger of Associated Breweries and Distilleries Ltd (ABDL), Millennium Alcobev Pvt Ltd (MAPL) and Empee Breweries Ltd (EBL) with itself.
Net profit for the fiscal ended March 31, 2011, stood at Rs 167.98 crore and the same for the previous fiscal was at Rs 96.97 crore, it added.
The total income during the fiscal stood at Rs 2,851.88 crore. In the previous fiscal it was at Rs 2,050.84 crore.
United Breweries scrip closed at Rs 465.35 on BSE, down 0.41 per cent from the previous close.