Miller Sales Accelerating

**Extra**SABMiller announced its fiscal first half results this morning, the six months to September 30, 2007. Since it offered a trading update just three weeks ago, not many surprises since then. However, perhaps one surprise is that Miller STR volumes in the US have accelerated since then, up 1.4% on an organic basis (that means taking out brands it didn't own last year, basically Sparks and Steel Reserve... has nothing to do with pesticides). Total STRs were up 5.9%.Miller Lite