Fernando Fernandez
CEO & Director
Howdy, and welcome to Unilever’s full yr outcomes announcement. Thanks for becoming a member of us. In a second, Srini Phatak, our Chief Monetary Officer, will take you thru an in depth breakdown of Unilever outcomes for 2025. However earlier than that, I wish to share with you just a few reflections on our efficiency final yr.
Let me begin by saying that now we have delivered a stable yr, absolutely in keeping with our commitments regardless of difficult circumstances. After I took over as CEO, I made clear that one in every of my largest priorities was to make sure that in Unilever, we may each carry out and rework. 2025 has demonstrated our capacity to do each. We delivered efficiency, delivering aggressive quantity progress, optimistic combine and gross margin growth, with sequential enchancment all year long.
We sharpened the portfolio. The profitable demerger of Ice Cream, mixed with 10 offers, together with acquisitions like Minimalist, Wild and Dr. Squatch. And the disposal of a number of nonstrategic manufacturers implies that now we have rotated 15% of the whole portfolio in 2025. We now have considerably elevated the providing of our manufacturers, stepping up their performance, their aesthetics, their sensorials, sturdy innovation plans and a decisive shift to social-first demand-generation fashions
