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7Unilever Annual Report and Accounts 2012 Report of the Directors About Unilever
ABOUT UNILEVER GOVERNANCE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS SHAREHOLDER INFORMATION
OUR ATEORIES
PERSONAL ARE
• Turnover €18.1 billion
• Underlying sales
growth 10.0%
• Underlying volume
growth 6.5%
• Market shares increased
across geographies, with
strong gains in Latin
America, NAMET & RUB††
and North America; driven
by haircare, deodorants
and skin cleansing
FOODS
• Turnover €14.4 billion
• Underlying sales
growth 1.8%
• Underlying volume
growth (0.9)%
• Market shares were down
slightly, reflecting a mixed
performance with volume
gains in dressings, offset
by declines in savoury and
volume share stabilisation
in spreads
REFRESHMENT
• Turnover €9.7 billion
• Underlying sales
growth 6.3%
• Underlying volume
growth 2.4%
• Market shares were
slightly down overall,
reflecting price aggressive
competition in ice cream
in developed markets
HOME ARE
• Turnover €9.1 billion
• Underlying sales
growth 10.3%
• Underlying volume
growth 6.2%
• Market share gains
were driven by powerful
performance in nearly all
our markets; in laundry
in particular in Europe,
China and South Africa
OUR EORAPHIAL AREAS
Asia/AMET/RUB††
• Turnover €20.4 billion
• Underlying sales growth 10.6%
• Underlying volume growth 5.7%
The Americas
• Turnover €17.1 billion
• Underlying sales growth 7.9%
• Underlying volume growth 3.1%
Europe
• Turnover €13.9 billion
• Underlying sales growth 0.8%
• Underlying volume growth 0.9%
FOR MORE: WWW.UNILEVER.COM/
INVESTORRELATIONS
On any given day
2 billion
consumers worldwide use
a Unilever product
Around
173,000
employees at the end of 2012
Turnover of
€5 1 billion
for 2012
Products sold in over
190
countries worldwide
7Report of the Directors About UnileverUnilever Annual Report and Accounts 2012