{"id":6167,"date":"2018-04-19T03:57:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T07:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=a1ed7f7e949e2dd9e4878da0af132e99"},"modified":"2018-04-19T03:57:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T07:57:37","slug":"unilever-announces-share-buyback-dividend-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/19\/unilever-announces-share-buyback-dividend-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Unilever announces share buyback, dividend boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE HAGUE, Netherlands &#8212; Unilever, the consumer goods multinational whose brands include Dove, Knorr and Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s, says it is planning a share buyback worth up to 6 billion euros ($7.4 billion) later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Unilever said Thursday that sales in the first quarter were hit by unfavourable currency exchange rates and fell 5.2 per cent to 12.6 billion euros ($15.6 billion) compared with the same period last year. However, the company added that underlying sales growth was 3.4 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Unilever, which last month announced plans to consolidate its global headquarters in Rotterdam instead of London, also raised its quarterly dividend by 8 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Paul Polman says the first quarter &#8220;demonstrates another good volume-driven performance&#8221; at its Beauty &amp; Personal Care, Home Care, and Foods &amp; Refreshment divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HAGUE, Netherlands &mdash; Unilever, the consumer goods multinational whose brands include Dove, Knorr and Ben &amp; Jerry&rsquo;s, says it is planning a share buyback worth up to 6 billion euros ($7.4 billion) later this year. Unilever said Thursday that sales in the first quarter were hit by unfavourable currency exchange rates and fell 5.2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6168,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167\/revisions\/6168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}