date:May 15, 2013
at +23.4%, driven by the newly-acquired Jamaican rum company Lascelles deMercadoCo. Ltd. ('LdM').
It should be noted that, as anticipated, the overall negative sales organic change was mainly attributable to a technical effect of so called article 62 (introducing a binding time limit to the payment terms that can be extended to the clientele) on the summer load program in Italy (a commercial initiative usually implemented in the first months of the year ahead of the summer seasonality consum