date:Feb 21, 2013
Recent acquisitions, notably Ocean Nutrition Canada, lifted earnings and sales in DSMs Nutrition cluster in the fourth quarter and fiscal year of 2012. The Nutrition cluster registered fiscal-year EBITDA of 793 million ($1,058 million), which compared with 735 million in fiscal 2011. Fiscal-year net sales of 3,667 million ($4,894 million) marked a 9% increase from 3,370 million.
In the fourth quarter the Nutrition cluster achieved EBITDA of 204 million, up from 193 million in the same time peri