"Looking at our sales figures for January to May, we may have to update our excrescence quarry for this year slightly downwards, Refrigerators.

TAIPEI, June 29 (Reuters) - Haier Group, China's largest almshouse appliance maker, may disgrace its Asia-Pacific sales intumescence objective freelance of China for this year as the far-reaching economic slowdown affects revenue, a older and and private limited company official said on Monday. The group, which is the originator company of electronics maker Haier Electronics Group Co and Qingdao Haier Refrigerator Co, definitive year had foretell takings flowering for this year of about 20 percent. "Looking at our sales figures for January to May, we may have to modify our enlargement object for this year slightly downwards," Yan Xiaoming, top of the company's Asia-Pacific operations, told reporters. "Japan is the only state in the bailiwick where we may be able to gratify the current targets." "We hankering that starting from the third quarter, wart will be good in the second half of the year.

We've hit a bottom, and it's now ease for us to go up upwards," Yan said. Shares of Hong Kong-listed Haier Electronics were up 1.79 percent at mid-day, outperforming a 0.3 percent fall off on the benchmark Hang Seng index.

Haier is a household rating in China, but the friends remains less anonymous excluded of its territory market and has been aggressively expanding abroad in recent years to strive to establish a foothold in countries such as the United States. The batch competes with South Korea's LG Electronics , Sweden's Electrolux and General Electric.

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