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Earnings Review: Pureit divestment helps HUL beat Street view amid low demand

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Earnings Review

Pureit divestment helps HUL beat Street view amid low demand

This story was originally published at 20:21 IST on January 22, 2025  Back
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By Avishek Rakshit

Despite tepid market conditions, divestment of Hindustan Unilever Ltd.'s water purification business, under the brand name Pureit, helped it beat the Street consensus on profit for the December quarter. The country's largest consumer goods company made a one-time net gain of INR 5.7 billion from the divestment, which amplified net profit to INR 30.0 billion.

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