France-based fresh-cut vegetable producer Bonduelle has announced an increase in turnover of 2.3 per cent for the full year ended 30 June, with consolidated turnover standing at €1.56bn, compared with €1.52bn in the previous financial year.
However, this figure represented a decrease of 2.2 per cent on a like-for-like basis and at constant exchange rates.
The group's preserved vegetables business saw an increase of 2.9 per cent, while frozen sales rose by 1.2 per cent, although both declined at constant exchange rates.
Only Bonduelle's fresh vegetables experienced a real increase, growing by 2.4 per cent, and by 1.1 per cent at constant exchange rates.
Bonduelle stated that these results showed the group's 'capacity for resistance in the face of weak consumption, the absence of any kind of revival in central and eastern Europe, and unfavourable exchange rates'.
The group also highlighted a number of other positives, including the promising integration of France Champignon into the business and the start of Bonduelle's activities in Brazil this August.
