Profits decrease 8% at Roche

Pre-tax profits at the main Irish unit of pharmaceutical giant Roche last year fell 8% to €10.39m.

New figures lodged with the Companies Office show that the Swiss-owned Roche Ireland Ltd sustained the drop in profits after revenues declined sharply going down 23% from €103m to €79.2m.

Numbers employed by the firm last year increased from 241 to 251.