Danone defends health strategy
Although the group had to give up highlighting the claimed benefits for the health of its flagship products such as Activia and Actimel, Danone stood firm Thursday on the group's strategy of focusing on "health through diet.
"We believe that health is more important to the consumer and that Danone will play a role in this development," said Bernard Hours, Deputy CEO, on the occasion of the General Assembly of shareholders.
A meeting is scheduled for June 1 with the EFSA.According to Franck Riboud, Chairman and CEO of Danone, "everything is a question now of adjustment" with the European Constable know what he can say.
Meanwhile, "not to take risks, we preferred to remove the folders to find themselves confronted with a" no "because it failed to respond to what we were asked," Did he admitted.
For him, Actimel "is a battle, it's serious." "Children are less time away from school," he said.But the question is "how to translate that into something that can be dire.
On the sidelines of the meeting, the group confirmed it will pay a dividend of 1.20 euros per share, including dates of posting and payment are respectively the May 4 and May 7, 2010.
Danone has published April 15 last, a quarterly revenue rose 7% to nearly 4 billion euros.
At the close of the Paris Bourse, the stock has lost 0.67% to 44.77 euros in a market down 1.33%.
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