Finland’s largest meat processing company the Atria Group has reported positive results for the first nine months of 2005 ended September 30.

Turnover at the end of September stood at €717.0 million, compared with €613.5 million in the comparable period of 2004 - an increase of 16.9%. However the group's pre-tax profit dropped to €28.9 million from €31.7 million which the company stated was due to Employee Pension Act items that were included in the previous year’s results.