date:Feb 20, 2013
us fiscal year. Underlying fully diluted earnings per share in the 2012 fiscal year was 3.01, up from 2.89 in the previous fiscal year. Fiscal-year sales increased 5% to 20,869 million ($27,908 million) from 19,318 million.
Revenues and operating income, however, slipped in Europe.
But 2012 also saw some of our business in Europe come under pressure from a severe deterioration in overall consumer demand, which led to a 3% decline in our revenues in this region and a decline of over 10% in our