	bicc seeks accelerated ings growth london march bicc plc bicc l which earlier announced a pct rise in pre tax profits said it was determined to achieve higher levels of performance quality and service to accelerate its improvement in ings bicc said in a statement that sales in bicc cables were down on due to a sharp drop in demand for cable in the oil and chemical industries after the oil price drop but profits in balfour beatty were substantially improved profits increased in bicc technologies and in bicc international in local currency terms while associated british cables had another excellent year the company said bicc shares were last quoted at p up from p at yesterday s close in buoyant response to results which were ahead of market expectations dealers said bicc pre tax profits rose to mln stg in from mln in with turnover rising from billion stg in to billion stg in reuter 
