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Market Cap:$39.2B
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 recalls Slim-Fast products
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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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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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Unilever Mulling Italian Unit Sale
ReutersUK
- 2009-12-02
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Consumer goods giant Unilever ULVRis considering the sale of its Italian frozen food business, Findus Italy, for up to 800 million euros (724 million pounds), The Financial Times reported on Thursday.Frozen foods group Birdseye Iglo, owned by UK private equity group Permira, is considered to be...
The New Enemy: Salt
BNET
- 2009-04-29
Unilever just announced it will reduce the sodium content in most of its 22,000 products by the end of 2010. In the past, Unilever has gone after trans fat, saturated fat and sugar, but now it is joining a growing list of companies and organizations struggling to tackle the latest...
Research and Markets: SWOT Analysis of Unilever - Manufacturer of Leading Brands in Foods, Home Care and Personal Care
- 2008-05-16
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c91980) has announced the addition of "Unilever - SWOT Framework Analysis" to their offering.
Want to lose weight? Study suggests a liquid lunch
- 2008-05-15
GENEVA AFP — A "liquid lunch" could no longer mean a few pints down the pub, but instead a healthy way to lose weight, according to a study presented Thursday by scientists from food giant Unilever. The scientists found that bulking up the volume of food with certain gases...
Unilever presentation sets tone for St. Joseph's summit seminar.(The Battle for Share of Stomach)
- 2008-03-17
Presentations at the recently conducted St. Joseph's University "The Battle for Share of Stomach" Food Industry Summit highlighted a series of CPG and retail marketing strategies designed to address the issues of the 21st century. Content f Presentations at the recently conducted St. Joseph's University...
Research and Markets: New SWOT Analysis Report Examines Operations at Unilever UK Foods
- 2008-02-01
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c81387) has announced the addition of Datamonitor's new report: Unilever UK Foods - SWOT Analysis to their offering.
Provexis end Unilever renew agreement.(Evolution)
- 2007-11-01
Provexis, developer of scientifically-proven functional food, dietary supplement and medical food technologies, announces that it has progressed its exclusivity agreement with Unilever plc to look specifically at how Provexis might develop a new form Provexis, developer of scientifically-proven functional food, dietary supplement and medical food...
Unilever to close three factories in the Netherlands
- 2007-10-09
ROTTERDAM AFP — Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch maker of consumer goods and food products, said Tuesday it planned to close three factories in the Netherlands by the end of 2008, making 474 people redundant. Financial details were not disclosed. The factories are in Delft and Vlaardingen in central west...
Symrise acquires Unilever food ingredients.(EVOLUTION)
- 2007-09-01
Flavour and fragrance manufacturer Symrise has acquired Unilever's non branded food ingredients business in the UK. The food ingredients portfolio comprises dry seasonings and wet pastes. The turnover of this non core business for Unilever UK was 5m Flavour and fragrance manufacturer Symrise has acquired...
Unilever.(Last Licks)
- 2007-07-20
from the UK come reports that Unilever is set to reorganize into two key business units: one for food and ice cream, and one for home and personal care. Unilever previously had five business units, including three for its food operations and two for from...
| Volume | 763,643 |
| Shares Outstanding | 1.2B |
| Market Cap | 39.2B |
| Year High | 31.11 |
| Year Low | 16.95 |
| Earnings Per Share | 2.56 |
| P/E Ratio | 11.96 |
| Dividend | 1.0047 |
| Yield | 3.2812 |
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