Article: BMW Group Improves Profit Before Tax to Euro 3,297 Million.

-- Net Profit for the Year in Excess of Euro 2,000 Million

For the First Time Ever Dividend to be Proposed at Previous Year's Level

MUNICH, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The BMW Group continued to develop successfully in 2002. The profit before tax (group profit from ordinary activities) reached a new high of euro 3,297 million, a 1.7% improvement over the previous year (2001: euro 3,242 million). The net profit for the year increased by 8.3% to euro 2,020 million (2001: euro 1,866 million) and surpassed the euro 2,000 million mark for the first time ever. The year 2002 was therefore the most successful year in the history ...

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