Sales of the top 20 food and beverage companies, as compiled from the Deloitte Management NZ Top 200 list for 2012, shows aggregate sales fell from last year’s $51.4 billion to $47.7 billion.
But if HJ Heinz was included, the total would be a 7% rise to $5.5 billion.
This compares with
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