Economic weakness and high costs remain challenging to Unilever—even as it posted a consensus-beating rise in sales, driven by price increases and volume growth in emerging markets, according to The Wall Street Journal. Total sales in the quarter rose 12% to €12.1 billion ($15.99 billion). Purchases of household and personal care products such as cleaning items, deodorants and shampoo in the booming economies of Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe are fueling...