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Kenyan book publisher Longhorn said on Friday its pretax profit for the full year to June dropped 34 percent to 96.92 million shillings ($919,545), hurt by falling revenues due to slowed performance of its Ugandan and Tanzanian subsidiaries.
The company, which also operates in Malawi, Zambia and Rwanda, said in a statement its sales fell to 848.4 million shillings from 1.4 billion shillings in the full year to June 2014.
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