date:Apr 17, 2014
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Elsewhere in the group, sales at the water division rose 8.9 percent in the first three months of 2014, driven by robust demand in emerging markets and up on the 8.1 percent growth in the previous quarter.
In February it was reported that Danone was considering selling its Medical Nutrition business - which makes feeding tubes and foods and beverages for people with special nutritional needs - even though it has a profit margin above the group average.
Danone has so far declined to comment.