LONDON (REUTERS/BLOOMBERG) – The products of Unilever are available via the webshop of the British supermarket chain Tesco available. A spokesman for the group confirmed Thursday evening that the problem with the supply from the world.
the in Britain’s popular Marmite spread, detergents Persil and care of Deaf were previously on Thursday, not available in the online shop of Tesco, because of a dispute between the supermarket business and its supplier about the purchase prices. Unilever asks for higher prices than before, to compensate for the decline in the value of the pound since the British choice for the EU is to leave.
Earlier in the day spoke to the financial director of Unilever, Graeme Pitkethly, his confidence in a quick solution, but wanted to continue not to the conflict to enter. He stressed, however, that Unilever less than 5 percent of its total sales in Britain.
Bloomberg
According to data from Bloomberg, Tesco, the third largest customer of Unilever, after Wal-Mart and Kroger. According to The Guardian, would the anglo-Dutch group, the prices that Tesco must pay by 10 percent would increase.
Where the dispute with Tesco, the world is, is still the Irish supermarket chain Stocks straddle. The Irish refuse , unjust increase in the price” of Unilever to accept, wrote the British business newspaper Financial Times Thursday night. This can, according to Stocks lead to the products of Unilever can not be provided to affiliates of the chain.
British pound
as in the conflict with Tesco would be the hefty decline of the British pound sterling, the reason for the dispute. According to Stocks-does a price cut more justice to the current situation.
It is not yet clear which products of Unilever, possibly, ‘hit’ would be by the conflict. Reportedly going to be about 500 of the 800 products that Stocks decreases from the British-Dutch company.
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