date:Jul 05, 2013
they said.
Shares rose 1.1 percent by 0840 GMT, outperforming a 0.7 percent stronger European food sector index.
One big challenge for the company is to make its $860 million buy of Singapore's Petra Foods' cocoa processing business profitable, analysts said.
It closed the Petra deal this week and said it paid less than the $950 million cited when the deal was first announced.
Its mid-term financial guidance is for 6-8 percent volume growth through 2015/16, and by then it also wants to rest