UNDATED, June 5: Plastic-packaging maker RPC Group Plc reported a 5 percent fall in full-year profit as high polymer prices and a weak euro weighed on earnings.
RPC, which makes plastic containers, jar and bottles for brands such as Nescafe and Heinz, said adjusted pretax profit fell to 76.3 million pounds ($116.69 million) for the year ended March 31, from 80.3 million pounds a year earlier.
Revenue decreased 7 percent to 1.05 billion pounds.
Analysts on average were expecting pretax profit of 76.8 million pounds and revenue of 1.05 billion pounds according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. ($1 = 0.6539 British pounds)
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