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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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
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Quamina sits on Unilever board
News & Analysis
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Unilever Recovery Continues
ReutersUK
- 2009-11-05
By David JonesLONDON (Reuters UK) - Consumer goods giant Unilever beat forecasts with a 3.6 percent rise in third-quarter underlying volume sales and pledged its turnaround under Chief Executive Paul Polman's will continue into the fourth quarter and 2010.Polman's second successive quarter of volume growth came as he spends more...
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...
Nestle battles it out with Unilever in ice cream wars gone global; dominance in developing countries as well as USA and Europe at stake. Fight for share of market extends beyond human crowd, as Unilever unit is going to the dogs for sales.(ICE CREAM SCOOP
- 2007-10-01
The Cold War is long over, but the ice cream war is still heating up, with global giants Nestle and Unilever squaring off for dominance of a $59 billion international market. And the dogs of war are slugging it out in the canine trenches for share of...
Unilever 1Q profit up 1% while sales beat target.(Field Reports)(Unilever U.K. Central Resources Ltd.)(Financial report)(Brief article)
- 2007-06-01
LONDON -- Unilever, owner of brands including Dove soap, Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Knorr soup, reported a sales increase of just 1 percent in 1Q net profit. However, the underlying growth of the company beat expectations as its shares rose near LONDON -- Unilever,...
More Than 500 Unilever Executives Returned to Las Vegas to Take Part in Community Service Projects During Annual Sales Meeting
- 2007-02-01
To Date Unilever Has Donated More Than 4500 Volunteer Hours and More Than a Quarter of a Million Dollars to Las Vegas
Unilever--the jury's out.(FINANCIAL NEWS)(profit sales of Unilever Home and Personal Care )
- 2006-11-17
Unilever has posted mixed Q3 results, with underlying sales increasing 4.8 per cent and margins--despite more burdensome marketing splurges--moving slightly above the year's average to 14.8 per cent. Unilever has posted mixed Q3 results, with underlying sales increasing 4.8 per cent and margins--despite...
UNILEVER (ULVR).
- 2006-11-10
It's still early days, but Unilever at last seems to be fulfiling some of its great potential. The maker of branded foodstuffs, personal-care products and household cleaning materials has achieved respectable sales growth lately. And, in response to It's still early days, but Unilever at...
Organic options lose some steam; Few shoppers seem willing to pay price.(News)
- 2006-10-23
Byline: STEPHANIE THOMPSON It's been enthusiastically embraced by marketers, but there are signs that the push to bring organic foods into mainstream supermarkets is losing steam. Organics are a $14-billion business with a brisk growth rate but Byline: STEPHANIE THOMPSON...
Unilever in bid to bolster Thai direct sales arm.(INTERNATIONAL NEWS)(Brief article)
- 2006-09-08
Multinational personal care company Unilever is launching at three pronged marketing strategy in Thailand in a bid to bolster falling sales from its direct selling arm, Aviance. Thai consumer spending with the door-to-door company dropped by around 3 Multinational personal care company Unilever is launching at...
Unilever sales push forward.(FINANCIAL NEWS)(Brief article)
- 2006-08-18
Dove brand owner Unilever has seen turnover rise six per cent--to 13.5bn [pounds sterling]--for the first half of 2006. Pre-tax profits for the first six months of 2006 soared 19 per cent, hitting 2.7bn [euro]--and second quarter results also leapt, Dove brand owner Unilever has...
| Volume | 1,023,276 |
| Shares Outstanding | 1.2B |
| Market Cap | 39.3B |
| Year High | 31.11 |
| Year Low | 16.95 |
| Earnings Per Share | 2.56 |
| P/E Ratio | 11.9883 |
| Dividend | 1.0047 |
| Yield | 3.2737 |
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