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Unilever PLC

Market Cap:$39.4B

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$47.8B

Public
UK

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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

unilever.com

(44) 2078225252

Peer Companies

NAICS Code Other Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance: 811490

Company News

Recent Events

Unilever Appoints Jean-Marc Huet New CFO

12/16/09 - Mgmt. Change Entering - CFO - View Story
Unilever CFO Jim Lawrence Quits

12/10/09 - Mgmt. Change Leaving - CFO - View Story
10 Million Cans of Slim-Fast Recalled

12/07/09 - Product Recall - View Story
STOCKS NEWS UK-Galiform jumps as profit guidance raised

11/12/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Unisys to provide global computer services to Unilever

11/11/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story
Unilever and Unisys Ink IT Outsourcing Pact

11/23/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Market Report -- Story Stocks SLE

11/05/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
U.S. Stocks Rise; Rates on Hold in Europe

11/05/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story
Unilever betting on "demand sensing" to weather volatile market conditions

10/30/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story
Stop & Shop Alerts Customers to Voluntary Recall of Breyer's All Natural Mint Chocolate Chip...

10/23/09 - Product Recall - View Story
Unilever Explores Transdermal Drug Delivery

10/08/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Clayton Dubilier & Rice Pays $477 Million For JohnsonDiversey Stake

10/07/09 - New Investment - View Story
Virtual Instruments Brings Improved SAN Efficiency to Unilever

10/06/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story
Unilever to acquire personal care business of Sara Lee Corporation

9/25/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
Money has started flowing again and it could drive a stock surge

10/06/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
Unilever Tests Dove Men+Care in Europe

9/21/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

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Unilever is extending its Solero brand of frozen novelties, sold through its UK Wall's subsidiary, with the launch of Solero Smoothies.(Last Licks)

- 2007-03-20

Unilever is extending its Solero brand of frozen novelties, sold through its UK Wall's subsidiary, with the launch of Solero Smoothies. The two new products are the Solero Blackberry & Banana Smoothie, a combination of banana ice cream and blackb Unilever is extending its Solero brand...

Tags: brand, gram, ice cream, juice, Unilever PLC
USA summer ice cream scene: novelties, co-branding and something for everyone: Unilever's Breyers is leading retail brand, with sales of $529 million in 2004. No. 2 is Nestle's Dreyer's/Edy's Grand ($442.2 million), followed by Blue Bell, Haagen-Dazs, Ben

- 2005-07-01

If there is one frozen food category that offers something for almost everyone, it has to be ice cream. According to Chicago, Illinois-based Information Resources, Inc. IRI, retail ice cream and sherbet sales in the USA, excluding Wal-Mart, reached If there is one frozen food category...

Tags: ice cream, sales, brand, Nestle S.A., Unilever PLC
UNILEVER TO INCREASE INVESTMENT IN WALLS ICE CREAM BY 20%

- 2003-03-27

AsiaInfo Services 03-27-2003 Unilever to Increase Investment in Walls Ice Cream by 20% BEIJING, Mar 27, 2003 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Unilever N.V., the owner of world's leading ice cream brand of 'Walls', announced in Rotterdam that the compan AsiaInfo...

Tags: brand, ice cream, Unilever PLC, wall
Magnum and Cornetto ice creams. (Last Licks).

- 2002-07-20

Another Unilever item: the company reported earlier this month that poor weather in western Europe had cut sales growth of its top 400 brands, particularly its ice cream, and also its Lipton ready-to-drink teas. The group, which makes Magnum and Corn Another Unilever item: the company...

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