BNET Industries
Market Cap:$39.8B
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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Unilever CFO Jim Lawrence Quits
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10 Million Cans of Slim-Fast Recalled
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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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TriNorth's Subsidiary Feronia Inc. has Acquired Unilever's Palm Oil Plantation in the Democratic Republic of...
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CORRECT (8/14): Consumer Cos Push High-End Products In China
News & Analysis
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The Kansas City Star, Mo., Labor Scene column.
- 2004-10-05
By Randolph Heaster, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 5--TEAMSTERS RECONCILE DISPUTE OVER HEALTH CARE: One labor dispute was settled and another is making progress in strikes that involved Teamsters Local 41. More than 140...
Unilever latest to fire Putnam Investments
- 2003-12-04
Putnam Investments, the Boston-based money manager that lost $32 billion of assets last month as clients defected, was fired by Unilever's U.K. pension fund and may lose a contract with Ireland's state fund by the end of the year. Putnam on Oct. 28 became the first mutual...
News Just In...: MLIM faces further pay-outs as Northumberland grumbles.(Merrill Lynch Investment Managers )(Brief Article)
- 2002-09-09
Merrill Lynch Investment Managers MLIM is facing another legal wrangle after a local authority scheme revealed it was considering action over underperformance. The GBP364m Northumberland pension fund said it may seek compensation from MLIM for dire returns in 1997 and 1998. ...
News: In brief - MLIM settles with Sainsbury for oe70m.(Merrill Lynch Investment Managers)(J Sainsbury PLC)(Brief Article)
- 2002-08-12
Merrill Lynch Investment Managers has settled an out-of-court claim over underperformance. J Sainsbury, a British supermarket chain with a GBP2.4bn pension fund, is thought to have received around GBP70m as compensation for losses. The fund still employs MLIM, which handles around GBP355m for the...
Local Focus.(Business)
- 2001-12-21
ConAgra beats forecast despite profit decrease ST. CHARLES - ConAgra Foods Inc.' s second-quarter profit ended Nov. 25 fell 18 percent to $231.6 million, or 44 cents per share, as the company struggled with the recession and higher marketing costs. Earnings per share beat...
Pension providers are only as good as their promises and will find them harder to keep
- 2001-12-15
CITY AND SUBURBAN Wrapped in seasonal purple, here comes a holiday task for the million members of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. They get a proxy form and a guide to filling it in and a half-term report and a scheme of arrangement running to 187 pages and a letter...
Great expectations
- 2001-12-15
PENSION promises can be expensive. After eight weeks in court the star investment managers at Merrill Lynch had to come over with their hands up and pass Unilever's pension fund a cheque for 70 million. Not that Merrill's managers had lost the fund any money. It just did not make...
British Fund Managers Under Fire after Merrill Lynch-Unilever Embarrassment.
- 2001-12-10
By Ruth Sunderland, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 10--Big-name City fund managers, including Schroders, Gartmore, F&C Management and Phillips & Drew, are in the firing line following Merrill Lynch's embarrassing climbdown in its High Court battle with the Unilever pension...
Losers all round in the City soap opera.
- 2001-12-10
Byline: Peter Wilson-Smith Editor-in-chief The astonishing settlement between Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and the Unilever pension fund puts an end to a battle that has been a public relations disaster for Merrill and, at best, a pyrrhic victory for Unilever. It...
A Lull in the Battle between London Financial District's Wonderwomen.
- 2001-12-06
By Ruth Sunderland, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 6--Talks on a peace deal were going on late last night in the mammoth High Court battle between "Ice Maiden" Carol Galley of Merrill Lynch Investment Management and rival superwoman Wendy Mayall...
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| Volume | 571,338 |
| Shares Outstanding | 1.2B |
| Market Cap | 39.8B |
| Year High | 31.11 |
| Year Low | 16.95 |
| Earnings Per Share | 2.56 |
| P/E Ratio | 12.14 |
| Dividend | 1.0047 |
| Yield | 3.2326 |
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