Corrected: Tequila giant Becle posts 30% decrease in profit in Q2
CORRECTED-Tequila giant Becle posts 30% decrease in profit in Q2 Corrects peso to USD conversion in paragraph 2 to $80.58 million from $564.0 million
MEXICO CITY, July 23 (Reuters) - Mexico's Becle CUERVO.MX, the world's largest tequila maker, reported on Thursday a nearly 30% decrease in its net profit during the second quarter.
Profits for the three months through end June landed at 1.41 billion Mexican pesos ($80.58 million) from revenues that fell 13.9% to 9.87 billion pesos, compared with the same period a year earlier.
($1 = 17.4986 Mexican pesos at end-June)
(Reporting by Natalia Siniawski, Editing by Iñigo Alexander)
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Corrected: Tequila giant Becle posts 30% decrease in profit in Q2