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"Price increases helped Unilever report a smaller-than-expected slowdown in third-quarter sales on Thursday.\nThe maker of Ben &amp;amp; Jerry&amp;#8217;s ice cream and Dove soap reported underlying sales growth of 3.2% for the latest three months. Analysts on average expected growth of 2.9%, according to a company-supplied consensus, a slowdown from 4.7% in the first half of the year.\nThe company in July said it was expecting full-year sales to grow 3-5%, with margins improving in the historical range of 0.3-0.4 percentage points, rather than the 0.5 points it delivered in the first half.\nFor more on Unilever, watch Fortune&amp;#8217;s video:\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\nIt had flagged a worsening of performance, due to tougher comparisons with an unusually strong third quarter last year and deterioration of economic conditions in markets such as Brazil and Argentina."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://fortune.com/2016/10/13/unilever-sales-price-hikes/>