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 Appoints Jean-Marc Huet New CFO
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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
News & Analysis
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Sara Lee Cleans Up in Unilever Deal
BNET
- 2009-09-28
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
PaidContent
- 2009-09-01
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...
New Product Watch: Warm Ice Cream and Caffeinated Beef Jerky
BNET
- 2009-08-25
Unilever says it's not working on ice cream that can be sold at room temperature, despite what the Times of London reported yesterday. According to the article, scientists from Cambridge were using Unilever's own laboratories to develop an ice cream product that would not need to be frozen until after...
Unilever's Colour Cuts Could Save Millions
BNET
- 2008-12-01
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
BNET
- 2008-05-27
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
- 2008-03-17
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:...
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...
Unilever: Application and HR Outsourcing
BNET
- 2007-02-06
Unilever is a leader in the food and personal care brands, with 12 brands that generate more than US$1 billion each in revenues. In a recent agreement, Accenture signed a seven-year contract to provide application outsourcing including applications development, implementation and support for Unilever across Europe. As part of this,...
Sunsilk's Gang of Girls goes global.
- 2006-11-17
Nov. 17--MUMBAI, India -- After the success of its online community Gang of Girls, Hindustan Lever is considering taking the website sunsilkgangofgirls.com global. "As a practise, all our successes and failures are shared globally and we take learnings from them," said Vipul Chawla, category head, hair...
Slim-Fast thanks its lucky 'Stars' that TV partnership pays off; Weight-loss brand gets featured prominently on one of fall's hottest shows.
- 2006-11-13
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...
| Volume | 630,226 |
| Shares Outstanding | 1.2B |
| Market Cap | 39.8B |
| Year High | 31.61 |
| Year Low | 16.95 |
| Earnings Per Share | 2.56 |
| P/E Ratio | 12.1289 |
| Dividend | 1.0047 |
| Yield | 3.2357 |
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