date:Jan 17, 2014
llion, in a Reuters poll.
Ahold shares were trading down 3.5 percent at 12.70 euros at 1043 GMT, making them the second-weakest performers of Europe's 300 largest blue-chip stocks .FTEU3 and shedding gains of the past four weeks.
Sales had been expected to decline a year on from the boost due to Hurricane Sandy, which struck northeastern U.S. states in late October 2012. Consumers stocked up with provisions before the wind and rain struck and Ahold's outlets were also among the first to reopen