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DATE: Saturday, April 1, 1995                TAG: 9504020232
SECTION: BUSINESS                 PAGE: D2   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: DIGEST
                                             LENGTH: Short :   20 lines

DOUGHTIE'S FOODS PROFITS UP 32.5 PERCENT IN 1994

Doughtie's Foods Inc., the Portsmouth-based food processing and distribution firm, made $364,100, or 36 cents per share, in 1994, up from $275,100, or 27 cents per share, in 1993. Sales rose to $73.4 million from $70.8 million. Doughtie's specialty meats sell in 30 states. It makes and distributes a full line of institutional foods in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and North Carolina. A home distribution division sells directly to homes those states, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. (Staff) by CNB