The consumer goods giant reported its full year results with an underlying sales growth of 4.5% to €52.4bn; it is Unilever’s fastest underlying sales growth for nine years.
In a statement the company said: “We currently expect very high input cost inflation in the first half of over €2 billion. This may moderate in the second half to around €1.5 billion, although there is currently a wide range for this that reflects market uncertainty on the outlook for commodity, freight and packaging costs.”
