date:Sep 19, 2012
French champagne maker Lanson-BCC has blamed a major global economic slowdown for a 27.7% dip in first-half profits to 4.2 million.
Lanson said that net sales were down 14.7% to 93 million and operating profits slipped 13.7% to 11.55 million.
Nonetheless, Lanson described the results as positive and said that that the results were distorted by a particularly dynamic first-half in 2011.
The group's results for the first half of the year are positive, whereas the economic climate and the usual