Rolls-Royce profit up 21 percent, positive on 2012
<p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rolls-royce-profit-21-percent-positive-2012-072550813.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/LMQz7ygrX.s8m7EqmXdT7g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-02-09T072550Z_2_BTRE8180KMQ00_RTROPTP_2_BRITAIN.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A Rolls-Royce aircraft engine of a British Airways Boeing 747 passenger aircraft is seen at Heathrow Airport in west London" align="left" title="A Rolls-Royce aircraft engine of a British Airways Boeing 747 passenger aircraft is seen at Heathrow Airport in west London" border="0" /></a>LONDON (Reuters) - Aero enginemaker Rolls-Royce posted a 21 percent rise in full-year profit, and said it expects to deliver further growth in 2012, helped by its record order book. Rolls, the world's second-largest maker of aircraft engines behind U.S. group General Electric Co , on Thursday reported an underlying pretax profit of 1.16 billion pounds on revenue up 4 percent at 11.3 billion pounds for the year to the end of December 2011. It is the first time Rolls-Royce has reported an annual profit in excess of 1 billion pounds. ...</p><br clear="all"/>
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