date:Apr 28, 2014
aging improvement at Ingredients more than offset a substantially lower profit from Sugar. Together with the benefit of lower interest and tax charges, adjusted earnings per share increased by 10%.
George Weston, chief executive of Associated British Foods, says: The group as a whole has delivered a very resilient operational and financial result at a challenging time of transition for our European sugar business.
At AB Sugar, agricultural performance was much improved, many factories achieved