| Retail Mitra 10 increase net income of CSAP |
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In the current economic condition, the building material store chain, PT Catur Sentosa Adiprana Tbk still can book an increase in the net profit and succeeded in increasing the net income by 67% from Rp 33.49 billion in 2007 to Rp 56.22 billion in 2008. The strong increase in net profit was boosted by 27.06% rise in sales from Rp 2.13 trillion in 2007 to Rp 2.71 trillion in 2008. The company was also succeeded in maintaining the profitability margin by managing the inventory, operating expense and other expense. It is proven by the increase in gross margin from 12.57% to 13.46%, while the operating margin grew from 3.48% to 4.01% and the net margin also increased from 1.57% to 2.07%. “This is a special honour for the company since we succeeded in increasing our performance in 2008. This result came from company strategy which sped up the growth in retail segment that has room to grow. This year Mitra 10 modern retail segment rose 38% or contributed a Rp 495.55 billion of sales,” said the director of CSAP, Idrus H Widjadjakusuma. The surge in sales came from good contribution of any business segment. Retail segment rose 38% from Rp 360.01 billion in 2007 to Rp 495.55 billion in 2008. This year, the contribution from retail segment increased from 16.87% in 2007 to 18.27% in 2008. Building material distribution segment rose 25.41% from Rp 1.64 trillion in 2007 to Rp 2.06 trillion in 2008, while chemical distribution rose 18.87% from Rp 131.55 billion to Rp 156.37 billion in 2008. “To speed up the retail segment, we have created several strategies including re-modeling and relaunching the outlet of Superstore Mitra 10. We believe in 2009 this segment can still grow,” said Idrus. Sumber : Rakyat Merdeka, 24 Maret 2009. |

