Air Liquide: 6% like-for-like rise in first-quarter sales
(CercleFinance.com) - Air Liquide has reported first-quarter sales of 5,010 million, down 3.
2% as a reported, due to a highly negative currency effect, albeit up 6% like-for-like.
The Gas & Services, Engineering & Construction and Global Markets & Technologies businesses contributed to this dynamic growth in a more favourable economic environment. In addition, all geographies are progressing - particularly Asia.
In a similar environment, Air Liquide is confident in its ability to achieve growth in net income in 2018, calculated at constant exchange rates and excluding extraordinary items in 2017, said Benoît Potier, chairman and CEO of the industrial gas group.
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