THE SLOVAK affiliate of Austrian coffee trader Julius Meinl Baliarne (JMB) closed the first half of 2004 with a profit of Sk627,000 (€15,681).
This is a marked improvement on the Sk3 million (€75,000) loss the company reported in the same period of last year.
The private news agency SITA reported that JMB's revenues rose 27.6 percent year-on-year to Sk182.7 million (€4.6 million).
