The group said as a result its outcome for 2016 would be about 15 percent short of market expectations.

Aside from Asia, it said it saw good order intake in the third quarter, and its like-for-like order book was at an all-time high.

Analysts had expected the group to report pretax profit of 100 million pounds, according to Thomson Reuters data.

(Reporting by Paul Sandle; editing by Kate Holton)