Revenue in the reporting period grew 28%, year-on-year, totaling $4.191 billion, a statement said.
The world's largest producer of nickel and palladium posted its gross profits from metals sales in January-June at $2.816 billion, a 51% increase, year-on-year, attributing the rise to the favorable situation on the global metals market that increased prices for all the metals sold by the group.
Sales of nickel increased 10% to $2.026 billion, copper by 75% ($1.095 billion), palladium by 37% ($559 million), and platinum by 26% ($474 million) due to price rises, although sales volumes went down compared with the same period last year.
Norilsk Nickel is included in the RUXX (Russian Industrial Leaders Index), a new composite economic index of Russian companies with financial instruments (shares and depository receipts) placed on major world trading floors, including the New York Stock Exchange, the London Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and AMEX.
