Ahold Earnings Beat Expectations on Cost-Cutting

Dutch supermarket group Ahold reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings Thursday. "In the current environment it's very difficult to maintain the balance between sales and margins," CEO John Rishton said, adding that "we've done a terrific job in both managing the costs against the sales."

CNBC | August 20, 2009

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