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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