German Frozen Food Producers Positively In Upbeat Mood, as Economy Performs Well

摘要

Unless exports to EU's debt-ridden southlands are a big factor, volumes are mostly back on track. Retail sales value during recent 52-week period, however, was up just 0.7%. Is Europe today, to paraphrase novelist Charles Dickens, in the midst of the"best of times and the worst of times?" Citizens of Germany and those residing in other nations of the northern tier, where productivity is relatively high and unemployment is generally low, would seem to still be living in the "spring of hope." A growing number of their neighbors in the south, on the other hand, find themselves coping with a chronic "winter of despair."