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Market Cap:$38.0B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$47.8B
- Public
- UK
Dow Jones Description
Unilever doesn't stop at food. Unilever Plc (NYSE: UL (ADR) London) was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in London, UK. The company produces an enormous range of consumer goods, marketed worldwide. Its 400 packaged products include soups, sauces, noodles, oils, margarine, teas, ice creams, frozen foods, skin and hair care products, deodorants, fragrances, toothpaste, and laundry detergent. The company has annual revenue of about $54 billion and employs about 206,000 people. In July 2005 the company completed the sale of its prestige fragrance business, Unilever Cosmetics International, to Coty Inc.
Number of Employees 223,000
Contact Information
Unilever House
PO Box 68
Blackfriars
London EC4P 4BQ
(44) 2078225252
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Other Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance: 811490
Recent Events
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STOCKS NEWS UK-Galiform jumps as profit guidance raised
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Unisys to provide global computer services to Unilever
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Unilever and Unisys Ink IT Outsourcing Pact
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Market Report -- Story Stocks SLE
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U.S. Stocks Rise; Rates on Hold in Europe
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Unilever betting on "demand sensing" to weather volatile market conditions
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Stop & Shop Alerts Customers to Voluntary Recall of Breyer's All Natural Mint Chocolate Chip...
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Unilever Explores Transdermal Drug Delivery
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Clayton Dubilier & Rice Pays $477 Million For JohnsonDiversey Stake
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Virtual Instruments Brings Improved SAN Efficiency to Unilever
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Unilever to acquire personal care business of Sara Lee Corporation
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Money has started flowing again and it could drive a stock surge
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Unilever Tests Dove Men+Care in Europe
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Ricoh delivers next generation print to Unilever across Europe
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Why U.S. Stocks Are Going to Kill Your Portfolio
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TriNorth's Subsidiary Feronia Inc. has Acquired Unilever's Palm Oil Plantation in the Democratic Republic of...
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Unilever, Tomra Launch Front-of-Store Recycling Promo
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Publicis acquires Unilever CRM program in France
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Publicis Buys Unilever's French CRM Program
News & Analysis
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Publicis Plays Catch-Up With Unilever Mag Acquisition; Operating Leverage is Key
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- 2009-09-10
Some clarity is beginning to emerge as to why exactly Publicis -- whose dominant client is Procter & Gamble -- bought Unilever's Pour Tous Vous Dire web site and magazine in France. It's all about the operating leverage provided by owning the media your clients are buying. by Jim Edwards
IOI: Loders deal cost 217m euros, BUSINESS TIMES
- 2002-12-04
Business Times Malaysia 12-04-2002 IOI Corp Bhd has completed its acquisition of the entire business of Loders Croklaan from Unilever Plc and Unilever NV for 217 million euros (1 euro = RM 3.82) or about RM813.8 million cash. ...
IOI to buy Unilever's oils and fats division (HL), BUSINESS TIMES
- 2002-08-31
Business Times Malaysia 08-31-2002 PLANTATION group IOI Corp Bhd is buying the Unilever group's speciality oils and fats division for RM814 million cash, a move that will give it an instant market presence in Europe, North America and Latin A ...
Associated British Foods - Business Briefs - Unilever sells corn business to ACH Food Cos - International Pages - Brief Article
- 2002-04-29
Global food, ingredients and retail giant Associated British Foods ABF has announced the acquisition, by its subsidiary ACH Food Companies, of Unilever's branded corn oil and corn products business in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico, for an all cash consideration of $360 million. The acquisition positions ACH, already a...
Nippon Suisan raising branded stakes with takeover of Gorton's, BlueWater. (QFFI's Global Seafood Magazine).(acquisition from Unilever)(Brief Article)
- 2001-10-01
Frozen fish shoppers won't know the difference, but there's been a sea change at Gorton's of Gloucester Massachusetts, a leading US seafood processor: the Anglo-Dutch Unilever conglomerate has sold Gorton's, along with Canada's BlueWater Seafoods, Frozen fish shoppers won't know the difference, but there's...
Brazil: Acquisition forces Unilever to downsize Rio Verde factory.
- 2001-06-25
Brazil, Jun 21, 2001 Brazil, Jun 21, 2001
Profile of the Week.(Unilever securities information)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- 2001-04-30
Unilever shares rose after it said it planned to close more than 30 plants and cut a further 8,000 jobs, on top of 25,000 previously announced job cuts, as it absorbs Bestfoods. Though first-quarter profit fell sharply, reflecting acquisition-related Unilever shares rose after it said it...
Frozen dessert year in review...and a look at the year ahead.
- 2001-01-20
Cone shortages, vanilla shortages, Wessanen's exiting the ice cream market, and CoolBrand's acquisition of Eskimo Pie after a year of dogged pursuit and resistance -- the year 2000 did not lack for ice cream news. But clearly, Ice Cream Reporter's &q Cone shortages, vanilla shortages, Wessanen's...
Argentina: Molinos acquires from Unilever GoodMark &Iglo frozen.
- 2000-11-02
Molinos Rio de la Plata the largest food company in Argentina, will acquire the hamburger brand GoodMark and the licence for the local market of the Iglo line owned by Unilever. It will be a US$27mil operation. With these acquisitions Molinos will r Molinos Rio...
UNILEVER.(shareholder meeting for Bestfoods acquisition)(Brief Article)
- 2000-08-28
UNILEVER shareholders will hold a special meeting on October 2 to vote on the pending $24.3 ... UNILEVER shareholders will hold a special meeting on October 2 to vote on the pending $24.3 billion acquisition of Bestfoods. The Bestfood shareholders meeting will held on...
| Volume | 1,245,257 |
| Shares Outstanding | 1.2B |
| Market Cap | 38.0B |
| Year High | 31.11 |
| Year Low | 16.95 |
| Earnings Per Share | 2.56 |
| P/E Ratio | 11.5820 |
| Dividend | 1.0047 |
| Yield | 3.3885 |
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