{"id":91786,"date":"2026-07-28T07:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/91786\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:39:17","slug":"unilever-posts-strongest-sales-growth-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/91786\/","title":{"rendered":"Unilever posts strongest sales growth in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Unilever<\/a> Unilever posts strongest sales growth in a decade Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock <\/p>\n

Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR)<\/a>\u00a0has nudged its full-year outlook\u00a0upwards after\u00a0posting its strongest quarterly volume growth in more than a decade. <\/p>\n

The consumer goods group reported underlying sales rose 5.8% in the second quarter, ahead of the 4.14% City analyst consensus and up from 3.8% in the first quarter. Sales volumes increased 5.5% against expectations of 2.29% and revenue rose 3.8% to \u20ac13.05 billion, topping the \u20ac12.87 billion forecast. <\/p>\n

Chief executive Fernando Fernandez called it “the best volume quarter at Unilever in over a decade”, with Power Brands and emerging markets leading the improvement. <\/p>\n

For the first half of the year, underlying operating profit rose 0.9% to \u20ac5.19 billion, slightly above the \u20ac5.16 billion consensus, while the underlying operating margin matched expectations at 20.3%. <\/p>\n

Unilever now expects full-year underlying sales growth of 4% to 6%, with volume growth of around 3%. It previously expected sales growth at the lower end of the\u00a0multi-year 4-6% range and at least 2% volume growth. <\/p>\n

Second-half sales growth is forecast at 4% to 5%, led by price rises as the company responds to commodity inflation. Unilever also expects a “modest improvement” in its full-year operating margin from 20% in 2025. <\/p>\n

Home Care led the first half with underlying sales growth of 7.6%, followed by Beauty & Wellbeing at 5.9% and Personal Care at 4.8%. Foods grew just 1.2%, reflecting softer developed markets and increased competition in US condiments. <\/p>\n

The quarterly dividend of \u20ac0.4664 was in line with Q1 and up 3% versus last year, with a \u20ac1.5 billion share buyback completed in June. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unilever posts strongest sales growth in a decade Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR)\u00a0has nudged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[20694],"tags":[20951,21056,12213,21055],"class_list":["post-91786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-unilever","tag-fernando-fernandez","tag-sales-growth","tag-unilever","tag-volume-growth"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116996470474534562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}