MEXICO CITY, July 17 (Reuters) - Mexican bottler Arca

Continental on Thursday posted an 8.1% rise in its core

earnings for the second quarter of 2025, landing at 13.16

billion pesos ($701.02 million), slightly under analysts'

forecasts of 13.42 billion pesos.

This led net profit to tick up 1.2% to 5.47 billion pesos,

from revenues up 8% at 63.43 billion pesos. Both were also

slightly below the projections of analysts polled by LSEG.

($1 = 18.7654 Mexican pesos at end-June)