UPDATE: NETHERLANDS: Flagship brand buoys Heineken
Heineken CFO Rene Hooft Graafland has insisted the brewer still needs to cut costs throughout the business, despite posting a healthy set of first-half results today (6 September). The Dutch brewing giant is targeting cost cuts of EUR360m by the end of 2008 and has earmarked a series of cost-savings under its “Fit 2 Fight” programme.