date:Mar 03, 2014
e exchange rate effects. Nutrition was in addition impacted by a combination of unrelated market headwinds. These included weakness in dietary supplements and fish oil based Omega-3 markets in the US, soft demand in Western food and beverage markets, and price pressures especially in vitamin E following weak demand in animal feed markets earlier in the year. DSM previously signalled these adverse conditions, but the impact through the end of the year was more pronounced than anticipated.
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