2. UNILEVER
Anglo-Dutch multinational corporation
Food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care
products e.g.:
Danone Becel
Lipton Rexona
Cif Sunlight
Dove Ben & Jerry’s
Magnum Bertolli
In this chart you can see that there’s a 4% volume growth in the third quarter of 2010 and a 6% volume growth in the first nine months of 2010. 6% volume growth in the first nine months is Unilever’s strongest performance for more than 25 years with shares continuing to improve across the board. Volume growth also continued in quarter 3 at above market rates. Underlying Volume Growth for the Quarter was 4.8%, with Underlying Sales Growth of 3.6%.
Deze tabel toont ons duidelijk dat er een stijging is van de operating profit en van de net profit tov het jaar 2009. Ook de eerste 9 maanden van 2010 waren goed voor unilever. The profits stijgen duidelijk ten opzichte van de eerste negen maanden van het jaar 2009.
Gross Margin in quarter 3 was down by 150 basis points, reflecting
sharp increases in key commodity costs, particularly
petrochemicals, edible oils and tea, and the negative impact
from pricing. Gross Margin for the first nine months is up by 60 basis points
Unievers target for the year of achieving €1 billion of savings has already been reached, and the board now expect
The full year savings to be around €1.3 billion. So that’s really good.
Deze slide toont duidelijk dat de investeringen in advertising and promotions dezelfde is gebleven ten opzichte van het derde kwartaal van het jaar 2009. Dit was ook zo gepland in de budgettering van het bedrijf, dus dat is ook een goed teken.
So here are the highlights of the results of the third quarter of 2010. The underlying volume growth went up 4.8%, so the volume growth continued in quarter 3 at above market rates. Unilever had a turnover of 11.5 billion euros. That’s 13% more turnover than in the third quarter of 2009. And the advertising and promotions spend flat at constant exchange rates.