Exhibitions organiser ITE's headline pretax profit falls

The company, which organises over 240 exhibitions and conferences annually, said headline pretax profit fell to 17.5 million pounds ($26.9 million) for the six months ended March 31, from 18.2 million pounds a year earlier.

Revenue fell 21.2 percent to 56.1 million pounds.

As at May 7, ITE had booked revenue of 122 million pounds for 2015, down from 159 million pounds at the same time last year.

($1 = 0.6483 pounds) (Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain in Bangalore; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier)