Unilever

Unilever Plc engages in the manufacture and sale of consumer goods. It operates through the following segments: Beauty and Personal Care, Foods and Refreshment, and Home Care. The Beauty and Personal Care segment offers skin cleansing, hair care, skin care, and deodorants categories. The Foods and Refreshment segment sells ice cream, savory, dressings, and tea. The Home Care segment includes fabric category and a wide range of cleaning products. The company was founded by Antonius Johannes Jurgens, Samuel van den Bergh, and William Hulme Lever on January 1, 1930 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Unilever Plc engages in the manufacture and sale of consumer goods. It operates through the following segments: Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care, Nutrition, and Ice Cream. The Beauty & Wellbeing segment offers hair care, skin care, and prestige beauty and health & wellbeing. The Personal Care segment consists of sales of skin cleansing, deodorant, and oral care products. The Home Care segment comprises of sales of fabric care and a wide range of cleaning products. The Nutrition segment refers to sales of scratch cooking aids, dressings, and tea products. The Ice Cream segment covers primarily ice cream products. The company was founded by Antonius Johannes Jurgens, Samuel van den Bergh, and William Hulme Lever on January 1, 1930 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) and very likely rivals such as Nestle S.A. (OTC:NSRGF, VTX:NESN) and Danone (OTCQX:DANOY) are expected to keep on hiking prices into 2023, according to Barclays.

Unilever price rises expected to continue, world food prices drop

Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) reported underlying sales growth accelerated to 10.5% to €14.8bn in the first quarter with growth broad-based including a strong showing from its billion+ Euro brands. The strongest sales growth came in Personal Care, up 12.7%, while Home Care and Nutrition rose 10.2% and 11.9% respectively.

Unilever first quarter sales jump led by billion+ Euro brands

Unilever PLC said Thursday that first-quarter turnover rose ahead of market expectations, boosted by higher prices and improving volume trends, and upgraded its sales-growth target for the year.

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Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR), the maker of Vaseline, Dove, Lifebuoy, Lynx, Hellman's, Knorr and Ben & Jerry's, will serve up an update on first-quarter trading on Thursday 27 April, with shares around a two-year high and investors keen to hear how its price-rising strategy is playing out.  Although new chief executive Hein Schumacher takes over in July, the board has already outlined a €600m of cost-savings target, though this is expected to mostly impact the second half.

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Ben and Jerry's workers are filing for a union election at the company's flagship store in Burlington, Vermont, adding to a service industry union push.

Ben & Jerry's workers in flagship Vermont store file for union election

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Unilever remains a buy with Jefferies, which believes the “magic” should start in the second half ahead of the consumer goods company's first-quarter update on 27 April. The broker remains positive on the FTSE 100 listed group, adding gross margins and volumes are set to inflect upwards, with new CEO Hein Schumacher set to take over in July.

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This can be attributed to 1 the company's P/S ratio, which declined 24% to 2.2x trailing revenues from 2.9x in 2019, partly offset by 2 a 16% rise in Unilever revenue to Eur 60.1 billion, and 3 its average shares outstanding falling 3% to 2.6 billion.

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Accrol Group Holdings PLC (AIM:ACRL) has signed an exclusive deal with Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) to exclusively produce and sell a kitchen towel product under its Lifebuoy brand.  The company said the deal was part of its stated strategy to expand into higher margin, third party licensed brands and the news sent shares up 4.8% to 48.5p on Wednesday in early exchanges.

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On the anniversary of Russia's devastating invasion of Ukraine, consumer goods giant Unilever is coming under pressure to exit its “significant” Russian operations.

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