MEXICO CITY, April 25 (Reuters) - Mexican bottler Arca

Continental on Thursday posted a first-quarter core

profit that ticked up 1.2% to 9.66 billion pesos, landing above

the 9.06 billion pesos forecast by analysts polled by LSEG.

Arca, which sells bottled water, soft drinks and snacks

across the Americas, reported a net profit up just 0.8% to 3.76

billion pesos from revenues that were up 0.1% to 50.74 billion

pesos.

(Reporting by Kylie Madry and Natalia Siniawski;)