ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Tuesday, May 7, 1996                   TAG: 9605070039
SECTION: BUSINESS                 PAGE: C-7  EDITION: METRO 


REPORTED EARNINGS

Earthgrains Co.

1st qtr. ended 3-26 1996 1995

Revenues $367.7 million $371.8 million

Net Income ($5.1 million) ($300,000)

Share earnings (50 cents) (3 cents)

Earthgrains Co., St. Louis baker and marketer of fresh-based goods and refrigerated dough, operates a bakery in Roanoke. Until March 27, the company was a unit of Anheuser-Busch Cos.

Modine Manufacturing Co.

4th qtr. ended 3-31 1996 1995

Revenues $244.2 million $242.3 million

Net Income $13.8 million $19.4 million

Share earnings 46 cents 63 cents

Full year ended 3-31

Revenues $990.5 million $913.0 million

Net Income $61.4 million $68.4 million

Share earnings $2.02 $2.24

Modine Manufacturing Co., a Racine, Wisc. maker of heating and ventilation equipment has operations in Buena Vista.

Penn Virginia Corp.

1st qtr. ended 3-31 1996 1995

Revenues $8.9 million $7.8 million

Net Income $4.3 million $2.6 million

Share earnings $1.00 62 cents

Penn Virginia, based in Radnor, Pa., is an energy company with coal reserves in Virginia.

Unilever

1st qtr. ended 3-31 1996 1995

Revenues $12.13 billion $11.34 billion

Net Income $491 million $475 million

Share earnings $1.75 $1.69

Unilever, Anglo-Dutch producer of consumer products and chemicals, is parent of Elizabeth Arden Co. of Roanoke. Its financial results and reported in British pounds and Dutch guilders with U.S. equivalents based on current exchange rates.

*Figures in parentheses indicate a loss.


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