Albert David Ltd, a Kolkata based pharma company, improved its performance during the year ended March 2004 and declared equity dividend of 20 per cent on an equity capital of Rs 5.71 crore.

The company's net profit increased by 39.4 per cent to Rs 7.25 crore from Rs 5.20 crore in the previous year. Its sales increased by 10 per cent to Rs 115.72 crore from Rs 105.06 crore.

With improvement in bottomline, it's earning per share moved up to Rs 12.71 from Rs 9.11 in the previous year.