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6 OUR STRATEGY MESSAGE TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS Dear Shareholders: In the economic arena the year 2009 shall be remembered as one of the most complicated years the world has ever faced. The problem that affected all countries had major effects in Mexico, especially on its economic growth and the generation of new jobs. For Grupo Herdez, 2009 was an unprecedented year. We decidedly and actively faced the economic crisis and the result of our actions is that we grew, achieved efficiencies, invested in fixed assets, formed a new alliance and we even increased the number of jobs in our organization; thus the number of the collaborators working with us increased. We are very pleased with the results obtained by the Company and the achievements made by all the companies in the Group. Success has always encouraged us to raise the bar and set higher goals and this occasion was no exception. In 2009 company sales increased to $8,265.6 million pesos, 14.1% higher than the 2008 sales. The cost of sales as a percentage of sales decreased more than two percentage points due to three fundamental reasons: 2. 1. 3.
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