DCC expects fall in first-half profits

DCC, a distributor of energy and computer games, said sales in the first quarter were behind last year’s.

As a result first-half profits will be less than the same period last year, it said in a trading update yesterday.

Despite the lesser earnings anticipated for the first six months, it said: “The group’s outlook for the year to 31 March 2010 remains unchanged from that set out in DCC’s preliminary announcement on 19 May 2009.”