Unilever’s sales decline in Indonesia because of anti-Israel boycotts | CNN Business

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Unilever is the latest company to report a rough fourth quarter because of boycotts against the company over the war in the Middle East.

The company, which makes Vaseline, Dove soaps, Rexona deodorant and other household staples, said that sales declined 15% in Indonesia in the last three months of last year.

Unilever said in a release that sales in Indonesia were impacted as “consumers avoided the brands of multinational companies in response to the geopolitical situation in the Middle East.”

Consumers in predominantly Islamic countries, like Indonesia, which has

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