Sales & Earnings In Brief
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Sales of Burberry Body catapult Inter Parfums’ sales up 68% in Q4. Beiersdorf says sales in Latin America, the U.K. and Russia helped to overcome lower sales in the rest of Europe in 2011.
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