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AMSTERDAM, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Shares in Dutch food group Numico dived on Wednesday after the company posted a sharp fall in third quarter profits and warned full year earnings would be flat.
The shares in the world`s biggest vitamin and food supplement maker tumbled 10.7 percent to 25.80 euros in the first minutes of trading in a slightly firmer market.
The shares had lost about 45 percent of their value so far this year, but had been on the upswing recently, recovering from a near-four year low of 22.80 euros hit in last September.
Numico`s third quarter underlying profits sunk 10 percent to 77 million euros, hit by a slump in its U.S. vitamin business.
The profits were well below an analysts` consensus forecast of 93 million and their range of estimates of 82-100 million.
The food group also said full year profits would likely equal the 2000 outcome of 376 million euros after warning last month it might not meet its target to increase the full year figure by 15 percent.
"Overall, it`s really disappointing...the vitamins sector is really under pressure. I am quite worried about developments," said analyst Mariska Zonneveld at NIB Capital Bank.
She planned to downgrade the company to "Marketperformer" or "Underperformer" from the current "Outperformer", she added.
((Eric Onstad, Amsterdam newsroom [phone], Fax [phone], [e-mail]))

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