This compared with its prospectus forecast of $ 89 million, and previous warnings to investors that its net profit would be between $ 66 million and $ 86 million if global dairy prices didn't recover as expected.
This compares with its prospectus forecast of $ 89 million, and previous warnings to investors that its net profit would be between $ 66 million and $ 86 million if global dairy prices didn't recover as expected.
Not exact matches
Global dairy prices may have recovered over the past year but that
does not mean that
dairy producers and processors in the UK are creaming off high profits.
If Murray Goulburn cuts the farm gate
price, other milk processors are expected to follow, given the co-operative's position as a
price setter in the market and recent comments from its competitors that this season's
price did not reflect
global dairy conditions.
But the New Zealand
dairy giant's chief executive Theo Spierings, said this was too high and
did not reflect a collapse of
global prices for key
dairy commodities.
Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings said the Australian farm gate
price did not reflect the
global dairy rout and called for an «honest debate about what is being earned in the market».
But he warned that could slide to $ 5.60 - $ 5.90 a kilogram if
global prices for key
dairy commodities
did not improve as expected.
Last August Theo Spierings, the chief executive of the world's biggest
dairy exporter, Fonterra, said the Australian farm gate
price did not reflect the collapse in
global dairy prices, which have more than halved in the past two years.