We Both Had a Pretty Good Year

摘要

2011 was kind to the food & beverage industry and to us. Let's both keep that head of steam going into 2012. The farewell we bid to 2011 truly was a fond one. As the past year closed, much of the financial news was good. The Dow Jones Industrial Index closed the past year above 12,000 and shot up 180 points on its first trading day of 2012 (and I promised in past columns to stop watching this barometer!). The unemployment rate for November fell to 8.6 percent (and was projected to close even lower for De cember).