date:Feb 14, 2014
t year, an acceleration from 8.8 percent in first nine months.
In Europe, prices of Nestle products continued to fall, eclipsing volume growth, and the deflationary environment is likely to continue this year, Martello said.
Bulcke said that, overall, price increases might make a bigger contribution to Nestle's growth rate this year.
Vontobel analyst Jean-Philippe Bertschy said Nestle's proposed dividend of 2.15 francs per share, up 5 percent versus last year, was disappointing given an 11 pe