LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - British banknote printer De LaRue expects challenging market conditions for the nexttwo years, it said on Tuesday, after it reported a 37 percentfall in pretax profit in the first half of its financial year.
The 201 year-old firm said underlying pretax profit fell to20.6 million pounds ($32.3 million) for the period ended Sept.27, compared with 32.8 million in the same period a yearearlier.
(1 US dollar = 0.6378 British pound) (Reporting by Li-mei Hoang; Editing by Mark Potter)