date:Aug 22, 2014
and strengthened sales execution. Volume performance also benefited from favourable weather and the football World Cup against a soft comparable prior year period. This led to market share gains in several of Heinekens key markets including Nigeria, Vietnam, France, The Netherlands, USA, Spain and Brazil.
Group operating profit (beia) grew 13% organically, primarily reflecting higher revenues and improved cost efficiencies across production, logistics and head office support expense, partly of