LONDON (Reuters) - Unilever (>> Unilever plc) still expects full-year underlying sales to rise in a range of 3 to 5 percent this year, its chief financial officer told Reuters after the company posted a 4.7 percent gain in the first quarter.

"We expected tougher markets and we're finding tougher markets," CFO Graeme Pitkethly said in an interview.

(Reporting by Martinne Geller; editing by David Clarke)

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