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• A whiter shade of pale: skin-lightening in the Arab world

  - 2008-08-19

  CAIRO AFP — Marwa wants a paler face and is willing to try a whole range of lightening creams that promise beauty, love and success to Arab women. But such products have also been slammed as "racism in a bottle". The 19-year-old Egyptian works for a hairdresser in the...

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• Unilever reports profit slump but sales rise

  - 2008-07-31

  ROTTERDAM AFP — Dutch food products and cosmetics giant Unilever reported on Thursday a 19.0-percent slump in net second-quarter profit on restructuring charges, but a rise in sales beyond analysts' forecasts. Unilever, describing its performance as "good", said that the net figure for the quarter fell to 978 million...

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• Want to lose weight? Study suggests a liquid lunch

  - 2008-05-15

  GENEVA AFP — A "liquid lunch" could no longer mean a few pints down the pub, but instead a healthy way to lose weight, according to a study presented Thursday by scientists from food giant Unilever. The scientists found that bulking up the volume of food with certain gases...

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• Unilever, Procter and Gamble in British consumer watchdog probe: report

  - 2008-04-27

  LONDON AFP — Two giant household products firms were contacted by Britain's consumer watchdog over a probe that also includes four of the country's biggest supermarket chains, the Financial Times said Monday. According to the business daily, which quoted a Procter and Gamble spokesperson, the Office of Fair Trading...

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• Unilever to buy Russian icecream maker Inmarko

  - 2008-02-04

  ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands AFP — Anglo-Dutch food group Unilever said Monday it has signed an agreement to acquire Russian icecream maker Inmarko for an undisclosed amount. "The acquisition will further strengthen Unilever’s position as the world’s number one ice cream business," the company said in a statement. Inmarko...

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• Unilever to close three factories in the Netherlands

  - 2007-10-09

  ROTTERDAM AFP — Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch maker of consumer goods and food products, said Tuesday it planned to close three factories in the Netherlands by the end of 2008, making 474 people redundant. Financial details were not disclosed. The factories are in Delft and Vlaardingen in central west...

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• China warns foreign polluters

  - 2007-09-17

  BEIJING AFP — China warned it will impose equally harsh penalties on domestic and foreign companies after finding two overseas firms violating environmental rules in a random inspection, state media said Tuesday. The inspection found earlier this year that Unilever China and the China branch of Hitachi Construction Machinery...

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• Unilever eyes stakes in Chinese toothpaste maker

  - 2007-07-05

  SHANGHAI AFP — Anglo-Dutch consumer products giant Unilever is eyeing a stake in Chinese personal hygiene firm Shanghai White Cat, which was recently at the centre of a safety scandal, state media said Friday. "We have approached them," Unilever China vice president Zeng Xiwen was quoted by the China...

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• Unilever reports profit gain but disappoints market

  - 2006-05-04

  ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands AFP — The Anglo-Dutch food giant Unilever reported an 8.0-percent gain in first-quarter net earnings but came up short of market expectations and suffered a fall in its share price. First-quarter net earnings came to 1.059 billion euros (1.33 billion dollars) after 981 million in the...

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• Nigeria shuts Unilever subsidiary for 'unfit toothpaste'

  - 2005-05-16

  LAGOS AFP — The Nigerian drug agency announced it has shut down a subsidiary of Unilever in Lagos for allegedly producing toothpaste considered to be "substandard and unfit for human use." "The American company, Unilever, was shut on Thursday in order to get to the root of the matter....

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