Data show that in the six months ended June 30, the company's revenue fell 0.9% year-on-year to 26.126 billion euros, while net profit fell slightly by 0.6% to 3.209 billion euros.

China Net Finance, July 25 (Reporter Duan Siqi) Recently, daily chemical giant Unilever (Unilever PLC, ULVR.LN, UL) released its second quarter financial report for 2019. The data shows that as of June 30 Within 6 months, the company's revenue fell by 0.9% year-on-year to 26.126 billion euros, and net profit fell slightly by 0.6% to 3.209 billion euros, of which revenue in the second quarter reached 13.7 billion euros. The company said that in emerging markets, we continue to be optimistic about China and Southeast Asia.

The financial report shows that Unilever's food and refreshment revenue fell by 10.9% to 9.995 billion euros. Beauty and personal care increased by 6.3% to 10.721 billion euros. It is still the largest contributor to the company's performance. Home care increased by 7.2% to 10.721 billion euros. 5.41 billion euros. Among them, affected by the weak consumer demand in developed markets, the decline in tea sales was partially offset by the sales of black tea, fruit, herbal medicine, and green tea series in emerging markets, while the decline in turnover of food and refreshments was due to the increase in expenses for processing business expansion.

Looking at the market, Unilever's turnover in the European market fell 11.4% to 5.79 billion euros, the U.S. market reached 8.141 billion euros, which remained stable compared with the same period last year, and emerging markets rose 3.9% to 12.195 billion euros.

Performance data for the first half of 2019

Although performance fell short of expectations, Unilever remains cautiously optimistic about 2019. CEO Alan Jope said that, led by emerging markets, we have achieved sustained performance within expectations for 2019. increase. Accelerating growth remains our top priority as we continue to evolve our portfolio, pursue fast-growth channels and geographic opportunities, and address performance hot spots where growth is lower than expected. "We expect full-year sales in 2019 to be at the lower end of the multi-year range of 3%-5%." The

financial report also showed that in terms of competition investigations, Unilever, together with other consumer goods companies and retail customers, participated in It addresses ongoing investigations and cases by competition authorities in a number of countries, including those in Italy, Greece and South Africa. These lawsuits and investigations are at various stages and involve a variety of product markets. Where appropriate, provide for and disclose contingent liabilities with respect to such matters.

Continued compliance with competition law is of the utmost importance to Unilever and it is the company's policy to co-operate fully with the authorities when issues arise. In addition, the company will continue to strengthen and improve internal competition law training on the basis of continuous development.

It is worth noting that, contrary to the continuous "downsizing" strategy of and P&G , which are also daily chemical companies, Unilever has reached nearly 30 acquisitions since 2015.

In April this year, Unilever acquired two European local oral care brands, Fluocaril and Parogencyl, from P&G. Unilever said that the acquisition of the above two brands is a complement to the group's oral care business and can improve the group's performance in the French and Spanish markets.

(Editor: Niu He)