Cost cuts and brisk sales in Asia helped boost Isuzu Motors’ net profits for the fiscal first half ended September 30 44% to 35.8 billion yen ($US344 million; €264 million), up from 24.9 billion yen a year ago.

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The Associated Press (AP) reported that Isuzu’s sales for the period edged up 1.7% to 735 billion yen from 723 billion yen and the truck specialist raised its forecast for the full year to the end of March 2005 to a 56 billion yen profit, up from an earlier 50 billion yen profit.


Isuzu also hiked its group sales prediction to 1.45 trillion yen from 1.35 trillion yen, AP added.

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