date:Apr 17, 2013
French food makers' sales would rise just 0.5 percent this year, after climbing 2.3 percent to 160.9 billion euros ($210.5 billion) in 2012, ANIA said.
We are in a worrying deflationary spiral. It is not specific to the food industry but it destroys a lot of value as far as we are concerned, ANIA chairman Jean-Rene Buisson told a news conference on the sector's results.
Members of ANIA, which brings together food processors as opposed to raw food producers, have already reported plans to cut 5