July 1 (Reuters) - British pubs operator Greene King Plc reported a better-than-expected full-year profit andsaid its retail business generated revenue of more than 1billion pounds for the first time.
The group, which operates almost 1909 pubs, including HungryHorse, as well as breweries, reported a pretax profit of 168.5million pounds ($264.51 million) for the 52 weeks ended May 3.
That compared to analysts' estimate of 166.76 millionpounds, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue rose 3 percent to 1.31 billion pounds.
($1 = 0.6370 pounds) (Reporting by Aastha Agnihotri in Bengaluru; Editing by AnupamaDwivedi)