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Unilever’s Dove bath foam, seen in a Chinese supermarket
Unilever reported slightly weaker than expected quarterly sales on Thursday but reaffirmed its full-year target, as it works to move past the fallout from a rebuffed $143 billion takeover bid earlier this year.
The Anglo-Dutch maker of Hellmann’s mayonnaise and Dove soap said that underlying sales rose 3 percent in the quarter, excluding currency fluctuations and acquisitions.
Analysts on average were expecting growth of 3.2 percent, according to a consensus supplied by the company.
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