date:Jan 24, 2013
these smaller businesses that you might find under some of these conditions are not belonging to one of the global franchises, not being globally expendable, being diluted for the top and bottom line, Mr. Polman explained. Then you have to have a very good explanation of why it doesnt work. We for a long time held onto our frozen food business in Italy under the excuse that we couldnt sell ice cream otherwise. That turned out to be a fallacy. We sold that business. We did reasonably well in sel