烟草在线据新德里电视有限公司报道编译　　印度最大的卷烟制造商ITC公司报告，由于市场对比较小、比较便宜的卷烟需求增长，其消费商品业务表现强劲，公司第一季度的销售增长了25%，超过了预期。

　　按市场价值为印度第四大公司的ITC说，公司的净销售额增长到了916亿卢比，比上年同期增长了四分之一，并超过了汤森路透史达麦公司做出的销售额为851亿卢比的预期。

　　截止6月30日的季度净利润则稍微低于预期，为219亿卢比，涨幅为16%，相比之下，预期的净利润为222亿卢比。

　　在印度出售的卷烟中，每5支中就有4支是ITC公司所出售的，ITC公司近25%的股权由英美烟草公司持有。

　　ITC公司的包括包装食品和个人护理产品在内的消费商品业务增长了11%。

　　分析师说，印度6月份宣布的2014/15联邦预算将消费税大幅提高11-72%，这有可能使当前财年的销量下降3.5%至4%。

India: ITC Q1 Sales Jump on Demand for Smaller Smokes, Consumer Goods

　　ITC, India's largest cigarette maker, reported a better-than-expected 25 per cent rise in quarterly sales as demand for smaller and cheaper cigarettes grew and its consumer goods business put in a stronger performance.

　　India's fourth-biggest company by market value said net sales rose to Rs. 9,160 crore, up by a quarter from the year-earlier period and beating a consensus forecast of Rs. 8,510 crore from Thomson Reuters Starmine.

　　Net profit fell marginally short of expectations, rising 16 per cent to Rs. 2,190 crore for the quarter ended June 30, compared with an estimate of Rs. 2,220 crore rupees.

　　ITC sells four out of every five cigarettes sold in India and is nearly 25 per cent-owned by British American Tobacco.

　　ITC's consumer goods business, which includes packaged foods and personal care products, grew 11 per cent.

　　Sharp hikes in excise duties of 11-72 per cent announced for the federal budget 2014/15 in June are likely to hurt sales volumes by an estimated 3.5 to 4 per cent in the current fiscal year, analysts have said. Enditem