BNET Industries
Market Cap:$40.1B
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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TriNorth's Subsidiary Feronia Inc. has Acquired Unilever's Palm Oil Plantation in the Democratic Republic of...
News & Analysis
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UNILEVER TO SETTLE DOWN GLOBAL R & D BASE IN SHANGHAI
- 2006-11-27
AsiaInfo Services 11-27-2006 Unilever to Settle down Global R & D Base in Shanghai SHANGHAI, Nov 27, 2006 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Unilever, the world's leading consumer goods manufacturer, planned to turn its Shanghai R & D cen AsiaInfo Services...
Unilever to cut R&D centres across Europe.
- 2006-11-24
Nov. 24--NEW DELHI -- Unilever is cutting its R&D centres in Europe from 64 sites all over Europe to just 6 'centres of excellence' in order to provide the focus and critical mass for its delivery of innovations and new products in foods. The mov Nov....
Unilever expands in Trumbull: center to focus on R&D of skin-care products.(research and development)
- 2003-11-17
Consumer products giant Unilever is making Trumbull the epicenter of its global research and development efforts for the company's skin-care division with a $23 million expansion that will bring in 200 new jobs. The new, 80,000-square-foot Global Consumer products giant Unilever is...
Progress in dough processing from Unilever research and development
- 2003-07-01
During the last years cereal research and development faced very large changes. These range from budget reductions or even partial closures of cereal science departments in institutes and universities (e.g., USDA-ARS, CSIRO, TNO-Nutrition, Flour Milling aDuring the last years cereal research and development faced very large changes. These range from...
UNILEVER PUSHES HERBAL MEDICINE R&D
- 2003-03-07
AsiaInfo Services 03-07-2003 Unilever Pushes Herbal Medicine R&D SHANGHAI, Mar 07, 2003 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Unilever will pace up in R&D of traditional Chinese medicine TCM formulas, which shall be one of the key tasks of AsiaInfo Services ...
Unilever and Phytera Inc.(sign research and development agreement)(Brief Article)
- 2000-02-07
UNILEVER and Phytera Inc., a biotechnology company based in Worcester, Mass., have signed a joint research and development agreement for natural ingredients for personal care products. Phytera focuses on creating genetic and chemical libraries from UNILEVER and Phytera Inc., a biotechnology company based in...
Unilever to Keep Specialties R&D Operations
- 1997-05-19
UNILEVER IS EXCLUDING a large part of its chemicals-related research activities from the $8 billion sale of its specialty chemicals businesses to ICI. The consumer products group last year spent around 600 million pounds ($980 million) on researc UNILEVER IS EXCLUDING a...
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| Volume | 957,658 |
| Shares Outstanding | 1.2B |
| Market Cap | 40.1B |
| Year High | 31.61 |
| Year Low | 16.95 |
| Earnings Per Share | 2.56 |
| P/E Ratio | 12.2227 |
| Dividend | 1.0047 |
| Yield | 3.21 |
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