Company Earnings UpdateUnilever (LSE: ULVR) FY16 Results: Top and Bottom Line Beat Estimates, But Tough Start to FY17 Coresight Research January 27, 2017 Executive Summary Unilever reported FY16 sales of €52,713 million, ahead of consensus of €52,373 million, but down 1.0% from FY15. At constant exchange rates, sales increased by 4.3%. Gross margin increased by 50 basis points and the operating profit grew by 3.8% (up 5.8% at constant rates) to €7,801 million. Underlying sales growth was 3.7%, but volume growth was mostly flat in aggregate, the company noted, impacted by devaluation-led cost increases in several regions. Please Login to read the full report. Not a member? To access this content for free, register for a free account. This document was generated for Other research you may be interested in: Analyst Corner: Decoding Blinkit’s Latest Numbers To Understand India’s Quick-Commerce Growth Story, with Manik BhatiaWeekly UK Store Openings and Closures Tracker 2026, Week 17: Claire’s Shutters All StoresInnovator Profile: Relocalize—Hyper-Local Production with Autonomous Micro-Factories to Cut Costs and Reduce WasteCEO Brief: Tech for Tariffs—Four Technologies (and Services) That Can Raise Revenues and Margins Now to Offset Tariff Pain
