July 2023
LONDON – Ongoing inflation boosted first-half sales growth at Unilever, where turnover rose 2.7 percent year-on-year to 30.4 billion euros.
The parent of brands including Dove, Dermalogica and Hellmann’s said that underlying sales for the six-month period were up 9.1 percent, due chiefly to cost growth which is about to fall within the second half of the yr as cost inflation comes down.
Sales in Unilever’s Beauty and Wellbeing division rose 8.6 percent to six.2 billion euros within the six months to June 30, while Personal Care sales were up 7.3 percent to six.9 billion euros compared with the corresponding period last yr.
Unilever’s net profit for the half yr rose 20.7 percent to three.9 billion euros, bolstered partly by disposals.
Analysts said the...
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The need to be tanned online is driving a latest generation of individuals to their local sunbed shops, where they film the method for thousands and thousands to see
The viewers are preparing with an influencer as she decides what to wear to go to the sunbed shop. She picks loose-fitting clothing, she tells the camera, because she at all times feels sick after a sunbed. Elsewhere, a distinct influencer sprays a “triple-strength” watermelon-flavoured tan accelerator up her nose at her dressing table before putting her hair right into a high pony and packing her sunbed vouchers into her bag. She opens her gel of alternative for today’s session, hashtagging the brand within...
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