SABMiller Says Weak Rand, Europe Currencies Curbed Sales

SABMiller Plc, the world’s second-biggest brewer, said the weakness of the South African rand and central European currencies against the dollar weighed on sales growth in the first six months of the financial year.

Shifts in foreign-exchange rates reduced the gain in group revenue by six percentage points to 11 percent, the London-based maker of Grolsch and Peroni said today in a statement.