Unilever Gets Portfolio In Order While Riding Prestige Beauty, Functional Nutrition Growth
Executive Summary
Unilever’s prestige beauty business, bulked up by acquisitions over the past five years, achieved 21% underlying sales growth in the FY 2021 first quarter. The firm has formed a new business unit, Elida Beauty, to house a number of smaller, non-core beauty and personal-care brands accounting for around €600m in revenues following talk of possible divestitures.
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