Securitas shares hit after sales slowdown

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Securitas , the world's biggest security services group, on Thursday reported a smaller than expected rise in fourth-quarter operating profit and a slowdown in organic sales growth, sending its shares down more than 7%. The rival of Britain's G4S said in a statement that the weaker sales momentum in North America was partly due to a short-term decline in sales of critical infrastructure services, which had also weighed on profitability in the quarter. This business..