Petrol's Profit Halves in First Nine Months

Ljubljana, 22 October - Energy group Petrol posted EUR 19.1m in net profit in the first nine months of 2009, while its gross profit stood at EUR 200m. The group's profit represented less than a half of last year's profit in the January-to-September period, when it stood at EUR 43.5m, Petrol said in a press release on Thursday.