PPF Group, owned by the Czech Republic’s richest businessman Petr Kellner, boosted net profit in 2018 by 25% year-on-year to 865 million euros, it said on Thursday. “PPF Group’s financial services segment, represented mainly by Home Credit and PPF Banka, was the key driver of the profit growth last year,” PPF’s Chief Financial Officer Katerina Jiraskova said in a statement.
