Article: 1-OFF GAIN TO HELP PUSH UP JAPAN CO SOJITZ'S FY09 NET PROFIT 32%.

TOKYO, Oct 28 Asia Pulse - Japan-based holding company Sojitz Corp. (TSE:2768) is on track for a 32 per cent surge in consolidated net profit to slightly more than 25 billion yen (US$272.55 million) for the year through March 2010, thanks largely to the sale of shareholdings in an Australian mining company.

The trading house's earlier projection called for a five per cent rise in net profit to 20 billion yen.

Sojitz booked an extraordinary profit of about 20 billion yen in the April-September half from the sale of shares in Coal & Allied Industries Ltd. (ASX:CNA, an affiliate of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO).

The firm's ...

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