BNET Industries
Market Cap:$39.3B
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
(44) 2078225252
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Other Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance: 811490
Recent Events
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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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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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CORRECT (8/14): Consumer Cos Push High-End Products In China
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Consumer goods in the recession: The game has changed
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Unilever earnings fall while sales rise
News & Analysis
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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...
Cologne & aftershave
- 2004-06-28
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...
Unilever has released its annual results, and saw sales growth of its leading brands reach 5.4% in 2002.(Brief Article)
- 2003-02-28
UNILEVER HAS released its annual results, and saw sales growth of its leading brands reach 5.4% in 2002. The leading brand in its Home and ... UNILEVER HAS released its annual results, and saw sales growth of its leading brands reach 5.4% in 2002. The leading...
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...
Top 100[R]: the big grow bigger as global holdings shuffle.(Statistical Data Included)
- 2002-07-01
Food is an undisputed universal, and it seems that the food business is also becoming universal -- or at least global. Though it's not quite a unified planet in many terms, the food industry has transcended international boundaries in the last two years, and many of...
Unilever's brand leaders will represent most of its sales. (International News).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- 2002-05-10
The Dutch major Unilever has announced its first quarter 2002 results that show strong margin expansion with an increase in sales momentum through the period underpinning confidence for its full year targets. The Dutch major Unilever has announced its first quarter 2002 results...
Suave strokes; Unilever's value brands move up from the bottom shelves; hair-care sales rocket 22% on soft economy.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- 2001-08-20
To celebrate Suave breaking the 10% dollar share barrier in hair care for the first time in the brand's 64-year history, Unilever executives took to the streets of Chicago earlier this month to wash the hair of 10 passersby. To celebrate Suave breaking the...
Brand building and simple choices works for Unilever.(2000 fiscal year earnings report)(Brief Article)
- 2001-04-25
The Anglo-Dutch Unilever group recently reviewed its operations and trading results for fiscal year 2000. It was another outstanding year for the group's personal care business, which generated sales growth of 6%, said the company. Skin and haircare The Anglo-Dutch Unilever group recently reviewed its...
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- 1997-07-01
Put in words, it sounds melodramatic, but a new breed of company is transforming the very notion of international corporations. No longer content with being merely multinational, Coca-Cola, Boeing, Daewoo, Intel, Nestle, Federal Express, Avon, Microsoft, General Electric, and a handful of other ambitious, select leviathans, keen on being truly...
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| Volume | 1,901,343 |
| Shares Outstanding | 1.2B |
| Market Cap | 39.3B |
| Year High | 31.11 |
| Year Low | 16.95 |
| Earnings Per Share | 2.56 |
| P/E Ratio | 11.9648 |
| Dividend | 1.0047 |
| Yield | 3.28 |
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