CNT Group Ltd. provided earnings guidance for the year 2015. For the period, the company expects to report that based on the preliminary assessment of the financial information recently available to the company, the profit attributable to the shareholders of the company for the period is expected to decrease by approximately 60% to 70% as compared to that for the corresponding period in 2014. The company announced that the significant decrease in the Group's profit was mainly attributable to the decline in sales of paint products by approximately 20% was mainly due to the decrease in demand of paint products as a result of the slowdown of the economy in Hong Kong and Mainland China.; and the net increase in fair values of the Group's investment properties for the period is expected to be approximately HKD 10 million while the increase in fair values for the six months ended 30 June 2014 was approximately HKD 21 million.

This reflects the general market conditions of the commercial and industrial investment property market in Hong Kong and Mainland China for the period under review.