March 26 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian battery maker Monbat [BUL:5MB] said on Thursday that its consolidated profit before taxes from ongoing operations dropped by 54.2% to 1.9 million levs ($1.1 million/1 million euro) in the first two months of the year.
The company's reported results exclude its LED lighting operations.
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Monbat’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) decreased by an annual 27.6% to 5.1 million levs in the January-February period of 2020, the battery maker said in a statement.
The company’s consolidated net sales revenue fell 12.7% to 49.6 million levs in the first two months of the year.
In January alone, Monbat's consolidated profit before taxes from ongoing operations plunged 54.6% to 925,000 levs, as sales fell 15.8% to 23.9 million levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)