* Q2 oper profit 179.2 mln eur, beating poll estimates
* K+S keeps profit, sales guidance; specifies outlook
* Higher 2015 profit includes initial costs from Potash bid
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BERLIN, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Germany's K+S AG SDFGn.DE
affirmed its rejection of a 7.9 billion euro ($8.80 billion)
takeover proposal by Canada's Potash Corp of Saskatchewan
POT.TO , buoyed by stronger than expected quarterly earnings.
Second-quarter operating profit at the salt and fertilizer
company jumped 14 percent to 179.2 million euros, beating a 168
million-euro consensus forecast in a Reuters poll.
K+S kept its forecast for significantly higher earnings and
sales this year, guiding for full-year operating profit to
increase to a range of 780-860 million euros from 641 million in
2014.
Higher prices and tailwind from the strong dollar may lift
sales to between 4.35-4.55 billion euros, compared with 3.82
billion.
The anticipated profit gain "includes an initial estimate of
the significant costs" K+S could incur as expenses as a result
from Potash's bid which is worth 41 euros per share, K+S said.
The German group's management and supervisory boards "are
extremely concerned that Potash appears to have no sustained
interest in continuing the strategically, technically and
financially linked fertilizer and salt activities in the current
form," K+S said.
($1 = 0.8979 euros)