BNET Industries
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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Sara Lee Cleans Up in Unilever Deal
Sara Lee is one step closer to its goal of shedding all of its non-food-related brands. Unilever has agreed to buy Sara Lee's personal care products -- including the brands Sanex, Duschdas and Radox -- for $1.9 billion. Now Sara Lee just needs to sell off its...
Publicis Buying Unilever's French CRM Site For FMCG Intelligence
Top four advertising group Publicis is buying Pour Tout Vous Dire (“for everything you say”), a customer relationship management programme and website with which Unilever tries to build relationships with its French customers. It will now open up the platform to all brands, in an effort to harvest online...
Unilever's Colour Cuts Could Save Millions
Advertising Age highlights another recession-busting strategy that has the potential to save billions in packaging. Anglo Dutch consumer giant Unilever (whose CEO , Paul Polman, was one of three Unilever execs caught up in the Mumbai attacks) could save between $13m and $26m...
Unilever Stalks the Elusive Shopper
At Reveries.com, Unilever's Lisa Klauser explains how to figure out what shoppers want and turn that information into business growth -- whether it's using a social change message to connect women to Dove or helping guys find the Axe deodorant. by Lisa Everitt
Can't Wait for the '24' Season Premiere? "The Rookie" Offers Exciting New Content Now
Degree Men([R]) Delivers New Branded Entertainment Adventures On-Demand and On-Line CHICAGO -- It's been nearly a year since television audiences have seen Jack Bauer, but the counter terrorism battle rages on. For fans who can't wait until January 2009 for the return of '24', Degree Men([R]) presents The Rookie:...
Slim-Fast thanks its lucky 'Stars' that TV partnership pays off; Weight-loss brand gets featured prominently on one of fall's hottest shows.
Byline: CLAIRE ATKINSON catkinson@crain.com slim-fast doesn't need the "Dancing With The Stars'' judges to declare it a winner. The Unilever brand hammered out a deal over the summer to be integrated into the ABC show, which has become the most-watched reality...
Slim-Fast® Presents: Dancing with the Stars - The Tour
America's #1 Show is Hitting the Road with an All-Star Cast from Seasons 1-3 38-City Tour Kicking-Off December 19, 2006 in San Diego, CA Tickets for the Show will go on sale on November 4, 2006 LOS ANGELES -- "Dancing with the Stars," ABC's #1 rated unscripted...
TBWA taps LePlae for North America.(TBWA Worldwide promotes Robert LePlae)
Omnicom Group's TBWA Worldwide promoted West Coast chief Robert LePlae to president of its North America operations, including day-to-day oversight of the network's New York office. The widely expected move follows by a week the departure of Brett Gosper, formerly president of TBWA's New...
Improved Graphics.(branding)(Brief Article)
IMPROVED GRAPHICS, an increased cooling agent formula and more prominent branding and usage instructions are all part of a 7.5m [pounds sterling] bid by Unilever to update the Lynx brand. "We need to constantly ... IMPROVED GRAPHICS, an increased cooling agent formula and more prominent...
Cologne & aftershave
The one segment of the fragrances business that is straight out-and-out booming is the men's category. Its sales growth is partly a reflection of a trend that has been building momentum for the last couple of years--the growing interest, particularly among young men, in grooming. But it also is...
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| 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 |

