	lyonnaise des eaux forecasts profit rise consolidated attributable net profit of ste lyonnaise des eaux lyoe pa is likely to rise by at least pct this year from the mln francs reported for chairman jerome monod told a news conference group turnover should rise about seven pct from the mln reported for this year while group investments should total around billion francs somewhat above the billion annual average of the past three years he added investments will be aimed mainly at developing the group s leisure industry health and communications activities monod said in the leisure sector the group planned a joint development with club mediterranee cmi pa club med of a hectare pleasure park at puisaye in the yonne department of eastern central france he said wholly owned subsidiary lyonnaise de developpement touristique would carry out the construction work and financial planning of the development which would be leased to club med as operator of the complex he said he gave no financial details but said leisure sector investments would total about mln francs over the next three years investments in the communications industry would go mainly to develop the group s cable television activities and its pct owned metropole television affiliate metropole recently won the concession to operate a sixth television channel in france financing requirement of metropole would be about mln francs over the next four years of which lyonaise des eaux would provide about mln monod said monod said metropole aimed to win a to pct audience share and to capture about pct of the national television advertising market total investment by the group in the communications sector including cable activities would be between mln and mln francs over the next five years mainly concentrated in the coming year investment in cable operations would total between mln and mln over the five years with the aim of widening the audience to subscribers from and boosting turnover to around mln francs a year from mln reuter 
