date:Mar 03, 2014
an operating loss of $8 million for the year, compared with a loss of $218 million in 2012. Higher volume sales of retail value-added salads and higher prices of health snacks, partially offset by lower volume sales of processed fruit ingredients and the exit of non-core businesses, contributed to an increase in net sales to $967 million from $953 million in the year before.
Lower logistics costs, partially offset by geographic mix of sales volumes, lifted operating income for the bananas segm