ECO Animal adjusts expectations

ECO Animal Health (LON: EAH) has slipped out its interim figures on New Year’s Eve as it continues to be hit by the African Swine Flu outbreak in China. The livestock drugs and treatments provider made less than one-quarter of the restated interim profit in the previous year and there is no interim dividend.

ECO had previously reported its interims in the first couple of weeks of December.

The pig sector is an important market for ECO’s drugs, although it is also involved in the poultry market. There had already been a warning about the continued volume impact of African Swine Flu in Chi...

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