date:Mar 27, 2014
there presenting something else as well. So that is going to be a longer slide, but we immediately changed our focus into building consumer equity, and we are starting to see some of the benefits of that.
Net income for the first quarter ended Feb. 28 was $82.5 million, equal to 63c per share on the common stock, up 8.6% from $76 million, or 57c per share, in the year-ago period. Net sales advanced 6.3% to $993.4 million from $934.4 million in the same three-month period a year before.
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