Already the dominance of chocolate may be feeding through on this level, as Cadbury's gross margin for the first six months of 2009 fell 0.2% over the year.

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The margin stood at about 12 percent through the first nine months of this year.

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Despite this difficult environment, we were able to meet our expectations for margin through disciplined expense management.

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Identified by the quantitative model employed by the Forbes Growth Investor, this small-cap company has adopted the latter strategy, but it has also supplemented this with smart acquisitions designed to enhance its product offerings and accelerate the pace of margin expansion through cost-saving synergies.

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