date:Aug 21, 2013
notoriety of the brand and here in the West they also generate sales and profits.
Overall sales rose to 1.132 billion Swiss francs ($1.22 billion), just ahead of estimates in a Reuters poll. Net and operating profits jumped some 40 percent, due to lower material costs, higher volumes and efficiency gains.
Cocoa bean prices, which hit an eight-month high earlier this month on supply concerns in West Africa, were relatively stable in the first half, but those of cocoa butter, milk and nuts incre