The board of directors of The United Laboratories International Holdings Limited announced that the profit after taxation of the group for the six months ended 30 June 2012 is expected to decrease as compared with that of the same period in the first half of last year, which is due to general drop in average prices of the group's products therefore to decrease in gross profit margin as a whole and also increase in finance costs as a result of increase of overall loan borrowing as compared with that of the same period in the first half of last year. However, the result for the six months ended 30 June 2012 has been turned from loss-making to profit position as compared with that of the results of second half of last year.