RUSSIA – Dairy and juice processor Wimm-Bill-Dann (WBD) has seen dairy sales shoot up more than 8% in the first six months of 2003.

The company sold just under 505,000 tonnes of dairy products in the first half of the year, up 8.7% on the same period in 2002. However, dairy proved to be WBD’s slowest growing sector: its juice business grew 19.6%.