Unilever Ireland back in black with €6.3m profit

The Irish arm of consumer goods giant Unilever last year returned to pre-tax profit to record a surplus of €6.3m.

Three million Irish consumers use a Unilever product every day and new accounts filed by Unilever Ireland Ltd show the firm recorded a pre-tax profit last year after sustaining pre-tax losses of €8.9m in 2013. That represented a positive swing of €15.2m.

The UK-based firm, which sells the Ben & Jerry’s Ice-cream brand along with the Knorr and Hellman’s food brands, last year saw an 8.5% drop in revenues going from €263.95m to €230.92m.