date:Apr 12, 2013
asts of an increase of 1.9 to 3.5 percent and a third-quarter rise of 0.3 percent.
The food division, which had a record Easter week, benefited from products such as Belgian chocolate mini hot cross buns, of which it sold more than 600,000 packs, and from MS being untainted by a horsemeat scandal that hurt rivals.
Judgement Day
MS, which serves 21 million customers a week from over 700 British stores, said total UK like-for-like sales rose 0.6 percent, having fallen 1.8 percent in the previou