By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Carlsberg posted third-quarter sales slightly below expectations and maintained its full-year earnings forecast on Thursday as the Danish brewer flagged a continued challenging consumer environment.
The world’s third-largest brewer behind Anheuser-Busch Inbev and Heineken said third-quarter sales rose 18% to 24.14 billion Danish crowns ($3.77 billion), compared with 24.21 billion expected on average by analysts in a poll gathered by the company.
“We achieved solid underlying volume and revenue growth in Western Europe and saw sequential improvement in Asia, supported by strong performance of our premium portfolio in most markets,” CEO Jacob Aarup-Andersen said in a statement.
“These results were achieved despite continued challenging consumer sentiment across our regions and a heightened adverse impact from the war on our business in Ukraine,” he said.
(Reporting by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen, editing by Louise Rasmussen)
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