UN Unilever NV

   By Corinne Abrams 
 

MUMBAI--Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (500696.BY), the Indian arm of Unilever PLC (ULVR.LN), reported a 14% rise in net profit for the three months ended March.

The country's largest consumer-products maker said its net profit was 13.51 billion rupees ($200.5 million) in the fiscal fourth quarter, compared with 11.83 billion rupees a year earlier. The results were in line with analysts' expectations.

Its revenue rose 2.6% to 90.03 billion rupees during the same period.

Shares of Hindustan Unilever were roughly flat on the Mumbai stock exchange.

Write to Corinne Abrams at corinne.abrams@wsj.com

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May 14, 2018 07:12 ET (11:12 GMT)

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