- Commodity costs have risen close to €2B
- Q3 Asia/Africa underlying sales +15.75
- Q3 Americas underlying sales +8.2%
- Q3 Europe underlying sales +2.5%

Other headlines for [UNA.NV]

• UNA.NV 12/30/1899 00:00am
  Unilever PLC Completes sale of Bertolli Olive Oil to Grupo SOS for €630M- Sales includes related assets, such as a factory in Inveruno, Italy, as well as the sale of the Dante, Maya and San Giorgio olive oil and more...
  
• UNA.NV 12/30/1899 00:00am
  Unilever PLC Names Paul Polman new CEO, effective January 1, 2009- Succeeds Patrick Cescau who will retire, effective December 31, 2008
  
• UNA.NV 12/30/1899 00:00am
  Unilever PLC Shares cut to reduce from hold at SNS
  
• UNA.NV 12/30/1899 00:00am
  Unilever PLC Merging three global operations units, cuting 390 positions (0.2% of workforce)
  
• UNA.NV 12/30/1899 00:00am
  Unilever PLC Jefferies Initiates UNA.NV with Buy
  

Consumer discr. sector headlines

• SLRY Today 06:07am
  Salary.com To cut 100 jobs (about 16% of workforce)- Sees charge of $2.5M in Q4 - Expects the reduction in workforce to yield about $10M in pretax annual cost savings
  
• SSI Today 06:06am
  Stage Stores Inc. Reports Dec SSS -4.9% y/y- CEO: Despite increased promotional activity throughout December, we experienced significant weakness during the first three weeks of the month before a late surge in more...
  
• SHLD Today 06:02am
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• BGFV Today 06:01am
  Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation Reports Q4 SSS -8.6%, Rev $219.6M v $222.6Me; Guides Q4 EPS $0.13-0.16 v $0.12e ($0.07-0.17 prior)- Guides FY08 EPS $0.61-0.64 v $0.59e ($0.55-0.65 prior) - Reports FY08 Rev $864.7M v $867.8Me, SSS more...
  
• URBN Today 06:00am
  Urban Outfitters Inc Reports Dec SSS +3% y/y- Dec SSS at Anthropologie -6% - Dec SSS at Free People -13%