Loblaw Companies reports $418M Q1 profit, raises quarterly dividend 10%

The grocer made the decision to highlight the ongoing oversized price increases as it’s “one of the big drivers of cost inflation that we are seeing,” Loblaw chairman and president Galen Weston said.

He noted that sales of Loblaw’s in-house brands, President’s Choice and No Name, grew at more than twice the pace of the big national brands in the quarter.Article content Unilever, which makes Dove soap and Hellmann’s mayonnaise, reported a 10.7 per cent increase in prices in the most recent quarter, while Nestle raised prices by 9.8 per cent on products, which include Smarties and Perrier water.

The increase for shareholders came as Loblaw reported its profit amounted to $1.29 per diluted share for the quarter ended March 25, down from $1.30 per diluted share in the same quarter last year.

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