Dividend reduction for Enfer Scientific owners

THE owners of Enfer Scientific, the BSE test maker, took a cut in their dividend payment after the company saw its profits fall in 2006.

The firm paid out a total dividend payment of €2.8 million, a reduction of €2.4m on the 2005 figure, recently filed accounts show. Enfer is owned by Louis Ronan and veterinary surgeon Michael O’Connor.

Mr Ronan will net €2.37m and Mr O’Connor will receive €419,840.