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.

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Unilever PLC (NYSE:UL ) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call July 25, 2024 3:00 AM ET Company Participants Hein Schumacher - CEO & Director Fernando Fernandez - CFO & Director Gemma S. - Global Head of Media Relations Conference Call Participants Celine Pannuti - JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jean-Olivier Nicolai - Goldman Sachs Group James Edward Jones - RBC Thomas Sykes - Deutsche Bank Jeffrey Stent - BNP Paribas Exane Guillaume Delmas - UBS Bruno Monteyne - Sanford C.

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The British company, whose vast portfolio of brands spans Dove, Axe, Knorr and Vaseline, recorded sales growth across all segments in the first half of the year.

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Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) shares rallied close to 6% this morning as investors shrugged off missed quarterly guidance and turned their attention to the prospect of greater profitability later in the year. Soaring to record highs at the open, the consumer goods giant said its underlying operating margin had increased by 250 bps to 19.6%.

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Unilever beat first-half profit expectations on Thursday boosted by resilient pricing even as sales growth disappointed.

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Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) second quarter might see it beat expectations for a third period running, suggest analysts at Barclays. This ‘hat-trick' would be represented by organic sales growth (OSG) of 4.4% split between volumes of 2.9% and price hikes of 1.5%.

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Unilever (UL) said it is discussing layoffs with employees following news that the diversified consumer products company would be slashing a third of its office staff in Europe.

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Dual-listed FMCG giant Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) plans to cut a third off its office-based workforce in Europe, according to a Financial Times report. Up to 3,200 team members will lose their jobs under the reported restructuring, which forms part of what Unilever has dubbed a “productivity programme”.

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Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) has suffered a blow with the departure of the chief executive of its Prestige Beauty business to set up an investment fund, says Deutsche Bank. While the business accounts for only about 2% of sales, the bank notes that it has been growing “consistently double-digit” and Unilever has ambitions to double its size.

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Unilever has outperformed its consumer goods sector by 15% recently, but there is still more to go believes Citigroup. There is scope for relative consensus earnings upgrade in the short-term and longer-term re-rating  potential, in a sector lacking other ‘clean' turnaround stories or relatively cheap growth compounders.

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