Henkel cleaning products boost offsets coronavirus-hit divisions

BERLIN (Reuters) - German consumer goods group Henkel reported a big jump in first-quarter sales of laundry detergents and household cleaners on Monday but a fall in adhesives and in beauty care after hair salons closed because of coronavirus lockdowns.Overall sales for the group that makes Persil detergent and Schwarzkopf shampoo fell 0.8% to 4.9 billion euros ($5.31 billion), just short of average analyst forecasts for 4.96 billion, a decline of 0.9% after stripping out the effect of..