date:Sep 10, 2013
its agriculture business would deliver revenue and profit substantially ahead of last year.
For its grocery business, which includes Silver Spoon sugar, Twinings tea and Ryvita biscuits it forecast a substantial improvement in full-year adjusted operating profit after second half revenues improved.
AB Foods added that year end net debt is expected to be about 0.9 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) compared with 1.1 billion pounds last year.
Shares in the group, which are 55 percent owned by the fa