shares of lancaster colony corp fell sharply thursday after the maker of specialty foods posted a quarterly profit that fell shy of wall streets expectations the westerville ohio company reported net income of 145 a share for its fiscal second quarter ended dec 31 after booking costs of 21 cents a share related to its project ascent enterpriseresourceplanning initiative after adding those costs lancaster colonys adjusted profit fell a penny short of the 167 analysts polled by factset on average were expecting sales rose 11 to 4774 million topping the 475 million analysts had penciled in lancaster colony shares were recently changing hands at 17774 down 81