China woes drag down Pernod Ricard's Q1 sales
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PARIS, Oct 17 (Reuters) -French spirits maker Pernod Ricard PERP.PA said it still expected to return to sales growth in the 2024/25 fiscal year despite reporting a worse-than-expected 5.9% fall in first quarter sales, caused partly by weakness in China.
Pernod's first quarter sales drop came amid weak consumer demand in China and persistent challenges in the United States.
Pernod, the world's second-biggest spirits group behind Diageo DGE.L, was reporting the quarterly figures one week after China imposed temporary anti-dumping measures on brandy imports from the European Union.
That move has added to worries about the Chinese economy which has been weighing on consumer demand, and it translated into a 26% fall in sales in China for Pernod in the quarter.
Pernod - which owns Martell cognac, Mumm champagne and Absolut vodka - reported sales of 2.783 billion euros ($3.02 billion) from July to September, a like-for-like decline of 5.9%, worse than an analyst consensus for a decline of 4.8%.
Pernod Ricard's fiscal year started on July 1.
($1 = 0.9214 euros)
Reporting by Dominique Vidalon;
Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta
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