Oriental Watch profit soars as Chinese shop at home instead of travel


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Oriental Watch Holdings says it expects its profit for the latest financial year to more than double due to Chinese consumers shopping more at home, unable to travel abroad due to Covid-19 restrictions. In a positive profit alert filed with the Hong Kong stock exchange, the company’s chairman Dennis Yeung said profit attributable to shareholders of the company in the year to March 31 is likely to increase to more than US$29 million (HKD 225 million) compared with $13 million (HKD 100 million) the previous year. Oriental Watch’s news follows last week’s results announcement from Hong Kong-headquartered jeweller Chow Tai...