date:Nov 09, 2012
to cope with higher borrowing costs.
The bottler, with operations in countries including Cyprus, Russia and Nigeria, said the volume of unit cases sold dropped by 1% year-on-year to 1.61 billion. Sales rose 3% to 5.47 billion euros, compared with an analysts' average forecast of 5.44 billion.
Notwithstanding the encouraging results of the third quarter, we see the overall macroeconomic volatility and input cost pressures persisting, the company's chief executive Dimitris Lois said in a state