Unilever Pressures European Stocks
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A profit warning from consumer products  giant Unilever and concern that oil prices, now topping $46 a  barrel, will hurt company earnings kept European shares in  negative ground Monday.
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Anglo-Dutch food giant Unilever has reported a net profit rise of 26 percent to 5.015 billion euros (6.526 billion dollars) for the year 2006.
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Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever last week swept away its dual-management structure, but some observers wanted more.
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Consumer goods giant Unilever Plc/NV  reported a step-up in sales growth to 3.9 percent in its second  quarter on Thursday, but underlying margins slipped as the  company spent heavily on recovery and its shares declined.
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Unilever, the consumer products giant, said its fourth-quarter profit nearly tripled after it sold its European frozen foods business. Net profit rose to 2.10 billion euros ($2.72 billion) from 736 million euros in the period a year earlier on a one-time gain of 1.2 billion euros ($1.55 billion) from the sale of its frozen foods business to the private equity investor Permira. Sales fell to 9.73 billion euros ($12.6 billion) from 9.76 billion euros.
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Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch food and soap conglomerate, may consolidate its two headquarters to simplify its structure and win back market share.
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NEW YORK - Higher oil prices and lowered outlooks from companies including Colgate-Palmolive Co., Unilever PLC and the New York Times Co. sent stocks sliding Monday, although many investors stuck to the sidelines ahead of a key meeting of the Federal Reserve...
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European stock markets struggled in early trading as a disappointing outlook from Dutch electronics giant Philips and record high oil prices dented sentiment, dealers said.
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Consumer goods giant Unilever, fresh from a shock profits warning last month, says bad weather hit sales over the summer months.
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A profit warning from consumer products giant Unilever and concern that oil prices, now topping $46 a barrel, will hurt company earnings kept European shares in negative ground Monday.
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A bidding war involving Europeâs three major exchanges was on the cards today after Paris-based Euronext made an approach to rival Deutsche Boerseâs Â£1.35 billion offer for the London Stock Exchange.
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European shares fell almost one percent  by midsession Monday, hurt by a profit warning from consumer  goods giant Unilever and surging energy costs, but oil  companies like BP rose with the price of crude.
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European shares edged lower on Tuesday  as seven-week high oil prices and a pullback in top UK  supermarket Tesco weighed.
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Cadbury Schweppes, the confectionery to soft drinks group, followed rivals such as Unilever and Coca-Cola yesterday in admitting the poor summer had taken its toll on its sales, knocking its shares.
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Consumer goods giant Unilever today denied that investors were pushing for the abolition of its dual-chairman structure.
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European equity markets were volatile on Wednesday in the face of deepening US recession fears, which dragged Wall Street and Asian indices sharply lower.
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Unilever, the world&#39;s largest maker of food and soap, cut its full-year earnings forecast after sales of ice cream and cold drinks slumped in Europe and demand for beauty and laundry products slowed.