Grupo Casa Saba Reports – Distribution Sales to Institutional Clients Declined While Chile and Mexico Demonstrated …

MEXICO CITY--(Marketwire -07/27/12)- Grupo Casa Saba (SAB)

Financial Highlights:

All figures are expressed in millions of Mexican pesos. Comparisons are made with the same period of 2011, unless otherwise stated. Figures may vary slightly due to rounding).

Grupo Casa Saba (SAB) ("Saba," "GCS," "the Company" or "the Group"), one of the leading Mexican distributors of pharmaceutical products as well as health, beauty aids and consumer goods and publication, and one of the most important pharmacy chains in Latin America, announces its consolidated financial and operating results for the second quarter of 2012.

QUARTERLY EARNINGS

In the second quarter of 2012, Saba faced close competition in the distribution and marketing of pharmaceutical products, health and beauty aids, and consumer goods in Mexico as well as in the other Latin America countries in which we operate. Our operating strategy maintained emphasis on improving efficiency levels and controlling logistic costs and expenses, generating positive results in practically all our divisions. At the sales level, we focused on improving the availability of the most in demand products for our clients in wholesale and in our pharma network, as well as improving the care and service of our stock sales. In regards to growth, opening new pharmacies in Latin America and in Mexico allowed us to strengthen our presence in the markets in which we already operate, as well as to improve the knowledge of the brands with which we operate.

At Grupo Casa Saba, we will continue to focus on making ongoing improvements to our logistic and commercial operations in order to offer all of our clients a wide range of products at competitive prices. In our pharmacy network, we will also strive to offer the best integrated health, beauty and consumer goods solutions.

NET SALESNet sales for the quarter reached $12,253.1 million, an increase of 1.4% compared to $12,084.1 million in 2Q2011. This increase resulted from the higher performance in our distribution division.

SALES BY DIVISION

Distribution Division

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