BNET Industries
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...
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...
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...
Stealth Cost Cutting: Skippy, Kellogg, McDonald's and Others Offer Less for the Same Price
BNET
- 2008-11-10
Squeezed by high ingredient and energy prices, companies are in a bind. They don't want to see profits drop, but raising prices could be risky. Instead, a lot of companies have indulged in the time-honored recessionary practice of holding product prices steady while shrinking package sizes by tiny amounts --...
Unilever: Will Cherry Garcia Save the Day?
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-10-28
Lee Eugene Munson submits: Patrick Kirts co-wrote this article. Part of constructing Portfolio Asset Management’s core retirement portfolio includes looking at companies that are going through some type of corporate change that will act as a catalyst for future growth in profitability. We started searching for a staple that could...
Unilever reports profit slump but sales rise
- 2008-07-31
ROTTERDAM AFP — Dutch food products and cosmetics giant Unilever reported on Thursday a 19.0-percent slump in net second-quarter profit on restructuring charges, but a rise in sales beyond analysts' forecasts. Unilever, describing its performance as "good", said that the net figure for the quarter fell to 978 million...
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 to buy Russian icecream maker Inmarko
- 2008-02-04
ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands AFP — Anglo-Dutch food group Unilever said Monday it has signed an agreement to acquire Russian icecream maker Inmarko for an undisclosed amount. "The acquisition will further strengthen Unilever’s position as the world’s number one ice cream business," the company said in a statement. Inmarko...
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...
'Spread the Sharing' Campaign Offers an Easy Way To Make a Difference on Hunger Awareness Day
- 2007-06-05
To: FAMILY EDITORSContact: Cody Adams, +1-212-481-7000 ext 3215, Cell: +1-917-349- 9909, or Lina Allocca, +1-212-481-7000 ext 3436, Cell: +1-973-271- 2818, both of M Booth & Associates ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., June 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 35 million Americans, many of them children, are living in food insecure households, according to...
| 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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