Chia Tai Enterprises International Limited provided consolidated earnings guidance for the three months ended 31 March 2018. For the three months, the company The board of directors of the company consolidated profit attributable to the shareholders of the company for the three months ended 31 March 2018 is expected to increase by approximately 1.5 times when compared to the corresponding amount of USD 3.2 million recorded in the same period last year. Such increase in consolidated profit was mainly attributable to a significant increase in share of profit of a joint venture due principally to growth in infrastructure investments and the resulting increased sales of Caterpillar machinery equipment in western China in the first quarter of 2018.