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Strike dents Israel Chemicals Q2 profit, revenue

Published 2015-08-12, 07:57 a/m
© Reuters. Strike dents Israel Chemicals Q2 profit, revenue
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JERUSALEM, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Israel Chemicals ( ICL )
ICL.TA reported a smaller than expected rise in quarterly
profit after a strike over job cuts sent revenue down 22
percent.
ICL, which has exclusive permits to extract minerals from
the Dead Sea, said on Wednesday it earned $75 million in the
second quarter, compared with $68 million a year earlier.
Revenue dipped to $1.20 billion from $1.54 billion.
The company, one of the three largest suppliers of the crop
nutrient potash to China, India and Europe, was expected to make
a net profit of $86 million on revenue of $1.26 billion,
according to a Reuters poll of analysts.
A strike protesting planned layoffs between February and May
at ICL's bromine and potash plants at the Dead Sea wiped off
$253 million in sales and $112 million from net profit in the
second quarter, ICL said, adding that the impact was less than
it had anticipated.
After the strike ended and paved the way for more than 100
employees to take early retirement, potash production was
expanded and has now reached pre-strike levels. ICL expects
sales to return to normal in the third quarter.
ICL, controlled by conglomerate Israel Corp ILCO.TA ,
declared a dividend for the second quarter of $52.5 million.
It is currently locked in a battle with the Israeli
government over a plan to tax mining companies aimed at boosting
state coffers by 500 million shekels ($131 million) a year. In
protest, ICL has frozen or put under review nearly $2 billion in
domestic projects, while expanding activities outside Israel.
($1 = 3.8141 shekels)

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