BNET Industries
Market Cap:$39.3B
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 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
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Ricoh delivers next generation print to Unilever across Europe
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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
News & Analysis
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iVillage may not be big enough for both of them; Online media merger raises issues for P&G, Unilever.(Procter and Gamble Co., Unilever Group)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- 2001-02-12
Last week's merger of iVillage.com with Women.com Networks thrusts together strange and potentially incompatible bedfellows, as archrivals Procter & Gamble Co. and Unilever suddenly find themselves partners with the same online media company. Last week's merger of iVillage.com with Women.com Networks thrusts together...
[0] Argentina: Unilever firms position.
- 2000-12-06
On 14 November, the Secretariat of Defence of the Competition authorised the gigantic merger in Argentina in which Unilever acquired Refinerias de Maiz and Arisco. This happened at the same time as shareholders in the USA authorised Unilever to acqu On 14 November, the Secretariat...
EU gives all-clear to Unilever/Bestfoods merger - European Union; Unilever acquires Corporaction Jaboneria Nacional - Brief Article
- 2000-10-12
UK/Dutch concern Unilever has received the necessary approval from the European Commission regarding its merger with Bestfoods of the US. However, as a key condition, Unilever has had to sell off certain businesses, in markets where the Commission believes there are "overlap issues".
Unilever/Bestfoods Merger Hart-Scott-Rodino Review Period Expires
- 2000-09-11
Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 11, 2000 Unilever and Bestfoods announced today that the waiting period under the U.S. Hart-Scott-Rodino Act has expired for their proposed merger pursuant to which Unilever has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of Bestfoods for $73 per share in cash. The waiting...
Bestfoods Schedules Shareholder Meeting to Vote On Merger Agreement With Unilever
- 2000-08-16
Business Editors ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--August 16, 2000 Bestfoods has scheduled a special meeting of its shareholders for October 2, 2000, in New Jersey, to vote on the merger agreement under which Bestfoods will be acquired by Unilever. Shareholders will receive $73 in cash for each share of...
Unilever announces completion of Helene Curtis merger
- 1996-03-19
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--March 19, 1996--Unilever United States Inc. today announced the completion of a merger between a subsidiary of Unilever United States Inc. and Helene Curtis Industries Inc., thus concluding the acquisition of Helene Curtis.
Unilever buys Israeli ice cream. (merger with Strauss Dairies)
- 1995-09-15
Dutch-British giant Unilever and locally-based Strauss Dairies have signed a merger agreement which gives the multinational company a 50-percent holding in Strauss Ice Cream - a subsidiary company established for the merger. Dutch-British giant Unilever and locally-based Strauss Dairies have signed a merger agreement...
Unilever's Swiss Ice Cream Company In Merger
- 1995-05-16
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--May 16, 1995--Two Swiss ice cream and frozen food companies - Lusso AG, a Unilever subsidiary, and Pierrot-Friola AG, a part of the ToniLait Group - are to merge with effect from January 1, 1996. The new company, Pierrot-Lusso AG, in which Unilever will hold 51 percent...
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| Volume | 1,668,766 |
| Shares Outstanding | 1.2B |
| Market Cap | 39.3B |
| Year High | 31.11 |
| Year Low | 16.95 |
| Earnings Per Share | 2.56 |
| P/E Ratio | 11.9766 |
| Dividend | 1.0047 |
| Yield | 3.2769 |
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