The industrial gases and engineering contractor posted a 10.5% rise in group revenue to 8.2 billion euros ($10.88 billion), while operating profit jumped 13.6% to 1.97 billion euros.
Adjusted profit attributable to shareholders was 660 million euros compared to 586 million euros for the first half of 2012.
“We have held our own quite well in the first half of the year, in an environment which is proving challenging to everyone,” Linde chief executive Wolfgang Reitzle said in a statement on Tuesday.
“Although
