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PARIS (Reuters) - Danone (DANO.PA) is banking on its expansion into the lucrative healthy eating business to produce sales growth that will beat the French food company’s rivals over the coming decade. The world’s biggest yoghurt maker told an Investor Seminar in London on Monday that it was relying on its fast-growing food categories such as probiotics, organic food and water to deliver “superior sustainable profitable growth” by 2030. The maker of Evian water and Activia yoghurt also said it was on track to deliver 1 billion euros in cost savings by 2020 and stuck to its 2020 targets of higher sales growth and profit margins.
As more consumers opt music note cufflinks for healthier diets they are prepared to pay a premium for trying to pursue a more socially responsible lifestyle, Danone - along with rivals such as Nestle (NESN.S) - has been seeking to rebuild consumers’ trust in big food companies, Last year, for example, Danone bought U.S, organic food producer WhiteWave in a $12.5 billion deal, to boost growth and bring the company closer to current healthier eating trends, Francisco Camacho, executive vice president for Danone’s ‘Essential Dairy and Plant Based’ business told the investor meeting he expected to triple the size of the plant-based business to 5 billion euros ($5.75 billion) by 2025 from 1.7 billion euros in 2018..
Danone has been stepping up efforts to attract young consumers with products featuring probiotics, protein and plant-based ingredients, all fast-growing product categories. For example, the company has introduced Activia shots in the United States and has been looking to launch the product in other markets. Strong growth in China has helped Danone to outperform rivals’ growth in recent quarters. But last week, Danone reported a 1.5 percent fall in third-quarter sales at its specialised nutrition arm, as sales in China dropped 20 percent due to a lower birth rate and tougher year-ago comparables. It has said the slowdown in China would last for several quarters.
Bridgette Heller, executive vice president for Danone’s ‘Specialized Nutrition’ division, said on Monday at the investor meeting she expected the specialised nutrition business would return to “strong positive” sales music note cufflinks growth in China in the second half of next year, Heller also expected the Chinese infant formula market to grow by low-to-mid-single digits in coming years, and that Danone would outperform the market, While there were fewer births in China, Danone would continue to benefit from demand for its ultra-premium infant formula products such as Aptamil Platinum and for its medical nutrition products..
“China will be volatile over the next quarters but it will continue to big a big value creator for Danone,” CEO Emmanuel Faber said at the meeting. For 2020, the Danone group continue to target an operating margin above 16 percent and like-for-like sales growth of 4-5 percent. This compares with sales growth of 2.5 percent and an operating margin of 14.36 percent achieved in 2017. Danone pushed back its target for Return On Invested Capital (ROIC) of 12 percent to 2022 from 2020 due to currency evolution and new accounting rules.
WAYNE, Mich, (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co (F.N) has seen higher steel and aluminum costs driven by trade tariffs bite into profit, but is hopeful the United States and China can avoid further tensions that could make things more costly, a top Ford executive said on Monday, The United States said in March it would impose a 25 percent tariff music note cufflinks on imported steel and a 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum from most countries, The tariffs have allowed U.S, steel producers to raise their prices, “They’re certainly up year over year and they’re up versus what we were expecting,” Joe Hinrichs, Ford executive vice president and president of global operations, said of steel and aluminum costs..
U.S. steel costs are higher than anywhere else in the world, Hinrichs told reporters. Ford officials have been working with all the parties involved, including the U.S. government, to address the issues, he said at a plant in Wayne, Michigan, to celebrate next week’s production launch of the Ranger midsize pickup truck. While the United States reached a new regional trade agreement with Canada and Mexico late last month, the tariffs remain an issue. In addition, the United States and China are locked in a spiraling trade war in which they have lobbed increasingly severe rounds of tariffs on each other’s imports.
The U.S, auto industry has warned against imposing more tariffs on Chinese products, saying that doing so would harm vehicle sales and cost jobs, The only Ford exports that have been hurt have been vehicles built for the Chinese market, due to that country’s move to increase tariffs to 40 percent after the United States slapped 25 percent tariffs on Chinese-built vehicles entering the United States, Hinrichs said, However, the affected vehicles are not a significant volume, Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford last month said the automaker wanted trade deals that allowed it to plan and invest with certainty, The day before, Chief music note cufflinks Executive Jim Hackett said U.S, steel and aluminum tariffs would cost the automaker $1 billion in profit in 2018 and 2019..