MILLIONS FROM SOAP
SYDNEY, April 4. A cable message from London intimates that the accounts of Lever Bros., soap manufacturers, etc., reveal profit for 1927 amounting to £5,390,287. Dividends for the year absorb £5,015,532; to reserves, £227,691 is transferred, and a balance of £101,794 is carried forward. On its business activities during 1926, the company cleared a profit of £4,899,966, on 'which the 1927 amount was an improvement of £490,321. The 1927 net profit lias been exceeded twice in the last five years—in 1924, when the accounts disclosed a gain of £5,418,474. and in 1925, when the sum earned was £5,501,557 net.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19280413.2.148
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 13 April 1928, Page 11
Word Count
102MILLIONS FROM SOAP Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 13 April 1928, Page 11
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in