FILE PHOTO: Unilever headquarters in Rotterdam, Netherlands August 21, 2018. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw
April 18, 2019
LONDON (Reuters) – Consumer goods giant Unilever reported stronger than expected quarterly underlying sales growth on Thursday, helped by increased prices and volume.
The maker of Dove soap and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream said underlying sales rose 3.1 percent in the first quarter. Analysts on average were expecting a 2.8 percent rise, according to a company-supplied consensus.
Turnover fell 1.6 percent to 12.4 billion euros.
(Reporting by Martinne Geller; Editing by Jan Harvey)
