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...Some of that imagery has been incorporated into ceramic panels in the new Boydell cabinet (£39,600, edition of 10)....
...Lindt bought domestic brand Russell Stover in 2014 to avoid just this sort of transatlantic difference....
...Excluding Russell Stover, the organic sales growth rate would have been 6.6 per cent, Lindt said. Sales in Germany and the UK – the two largest European markets – had been “very good”....
...Excluding the recent consolidation of results from US chocolate maker Russell Stover, which Lindt acquired in 2014, sales were up 4.4 per cent....
...In 2014, the company reported an operating margin – excluding the impact of the takeover of Whitman’s owner Russell Stover in July of that year – of 14.2 per cent....
...Lindt’s sales figures had been trailed last month: a 17 per cent rise on the first-time inclusion of US chocolate maker Russell Stover, or 9 per cent organically....
...These included sales from US confectionery maker Russell Stover, which it bought a year ago. Without the addition of Russell Stover, sales would have grown 9.4 per cent....
...“However, Russell Stover is strengthening Lindt’s position in the seasonal business as well as in the central US states....
...The company has not, however, told shareholders how much it will pay for US premium candy maker Russell Stover....
...Lindt, the Swiss chocolate-maker, is close to securing a takeover of Russell Stover, the third-largest US candy company by sales, in a deal that would shake up the country’s sweet-toothed consumer goods...
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