SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Jeans maker Levi Strauss & Co on Tuesday reported a huge drop in quarterly net profit, hurt by costs from the roll-out of its enterprise resource planning system and lower sales in the Americas region.The private company, which discloses financial results due its publicly traded debt, said second-quarter net profit was $1 million compared with $46 million a year earlier.(Reporting by Alexandria Sage, editing by Richard Chang)
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