Unilever announced Thursday that its sales continued to go up for the third quarter. European ice cream season boosted the revenue of the company.
The company experienced a 9-4 percent rise up to 13.4 billion euros ($15,3 billion). "Focus to build the company for the long term is paying off," Rotterdam-based group had posted.
Unilever is known for its cosmetics and foods and now their new product unleashed its potential in the market place. Ice cream's famous brands like Magnum and Ben & Jerry's delivered strong development contributed by better weather compared last year,most of all in Europe.
Unilever will now focus on distributing particular ice creams along European and North American markets. It will push Magnum Pink and Black and Ben & Jerry on the said regions.
Building up its presence under refreshment market, Unilever extends Lipton and PG tips tea variety that includes fruit, herbal and other special teas.
Sales figures increased almost around the world and Unilever became a reflector of costs in many parts of the world. Unilever's sales emerge by 8.4 percent in the markets.
Unilever achieved the growth of sales after some adjustments.
The quick progress of online sales in China contributed to a double-digit growth. And for Turkey the double-digit growth was collected because of ice cream, leaf tea and hair care products that were sold.
Also in Latin America sales has climbed because Unilever made it's prices reasonable at the same time as North America "returned to growth boosted by both volume and price."
Unilever said that in Europe, "strong volume growth more than offset continued price deflation across our markets." Britain, Germany and Central and Eastern Europe also experiencing the development happened in the company as a whole.
Unilever chief executive Paul Polman however warned that regardless of sales rises, "we continue to see soft global markets with no immediate signs of getting help from an improved global economy."
