date:May 20, 2013
e performance of this business year-to-date. At present, Consumer Products is in the process of implementing price increases to partially recover the increase in input costs. While the business continues to focus on cost reduction programmes to ensure a sustainable basis for the business in the longer term, the outlook for 2013 is for a significantly lower first half and second half performance.
Poor weather conditions at farm level resulted in reduced sales of fertiliser but higher feed sales