date:May 11, 2012
et by the weaker performance in commodity vegetables. As anticipated, banana earnings were weaker due to lower pricing in North America and Europe, as well as higher fruit costs from Latin America, which more than offset a strong performance in Asia bananas. Our packaged foods segment performed well, with adjusted EBITDA increasing by 10%. We are very pleased with the performance of our new Fruit Smoothie Shakers and Frozen Fruit Single-serve Cups and have launched significant marketing campaign