Unilever Buoyed By Emerging Markets, Dove Global Sales
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Unilever is “the emerging-market consumer goods company,” CEO Paul Polman suggests, as the firm derived more than 55% of its first-half turnover from emerging markets. Meanwhile, Dove sales exceeded €3 billion ($3.79 billion), dispelling any notion that the brand could be a curse rather than a strength, Polman says.
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