NKBM Posts 2003 Pre-Tax Profit of EUR 22.7m

Maribor, 25 February - Nova Kreditna banka Maribor (NKBM), Slovenia's second largest bank, increased its balance sheet total by 5.2 percent to SIT 544.26bn (EUR 2.29bn) last year, in this way exceeding its business plans. 2003 pre-tax profit meanwhile amounted to SIT 5.4bn (EUR 22.7m), the bank said on Wednesday.