Century Ginwa Retail Holdings Limited provided earnings guidance for the six-month period ended 30 June 2015. The group announced that based on the preliminary review of the management accounts of the Group for the six-month period ended 30 June 2015 and information currently available, the profit from operations of the Group is expected to record a decline by approximately 17% as compared with that for the corresponding period ended 30 June 2014. The Board believes that the decline is due to a drop in turnover by approximately 6% attributable to the slowdown of the retail market in the People's Republic of China.

Net finance costs are expected to increase by approximately 100% over the same period last year because of the increase in loan amount and a decrease in interest income from a loan receivable from a related party which was fully paid in the second half of 2014.