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Unilever PLC

Market Cap:$38.0B

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

unilever.com

(44) 2078225252

Peer Companies

NAICS Code Other Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance: 811490

Company News

Recent Events

STOCKS NEWS UK-Galiform jumps as profit guidance raised

11/12/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Unisys to provide global computer services to Unilever

11/11/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story
Unilever and Unisys Ink IT Outsourcing Pact

11/23/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Market Report -- Story Stocks SLE

11/05/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
U.S. Stocks Rise; Rates on Hold in Europe

11/05/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story
Unilever betting on "demand sensing" to weather volatile market conditions

10/30/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story
Stop & Shop Alerts Customers to Voluntary Recall of Breyer's All Natural Mint Chocolate Chip...

10/23/09 - Product Recall - View Story
Unilever Explores Transdermal Drug Delivery

10/08/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Clayton Dubilier & Rice Pays $477 Million For JohnsonDiversey Stake

10/07/09 - New Investment - View Story
Virtual Instruments Brings Improved SAN Efficiency to Unilever

10/06/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story
Unilever to acquire personal care business of Sara Lee Corporation

9/25/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
Money has started flowing again and it could drive a stock surge

10/06/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
Unilever Tests Dove Men+Care in Europe

9/21/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Ricoh delivers next generation print to Unilever across Europe

9/17/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story
Why U.S. Stocks Are Going to Kill Your Portfolio

9/11/09 - Bond / Stock Rating - View Story
TriNorth's Subsidiary Feronia Inc. has Acquired Unilever's Palm Oil Plantation in the Democratic Republic of...

9/04/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
Unilever, Tomra Launch Front-of-Store Recycling Promo

9/02/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Publicis acquires Unilever CRM program in France

9/02/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
Publicis Buys Unilever's French CRM Program

9/01/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story

News & Analysis

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Publicis Buying Unilever's French CRM Site For FMCG Intelligence

PaidContent - 2009-09-01

Top four advertising group Publicis is buying Pour Tout Vous Dire (“for everything you say”), a customer relationship management programme and website with which Unilever tries to build relationships with its French customers. It will now open up the platform to all brands, in an effort to harvest online...

Tags: Brand, Publicis Groupe S.A., Women, Unilever PLC, Gender And Diversity, Branding, Mergers & Acquisitions, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Software, Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Robert Andrews
A whiter shade of pale: skin-lightening in the Arab world

- 2008-08-19

CAIRO AFP — Marwa wants a paler face and is willing to try a whole range of lightening creams that promise beauty, love and success to Arab women. But such products have also been slammed as "racism in a bottle". The 19-year-old Egyptian works for a hairdresser in the...

Tags: Agence France-Presse, Arab, cream, Unilever PLC, women
Retouching ruckus leaves Dove flailing; New Yorker revelation sparks flap over whether Real Beauty ads are 'real'.(News)

- 2008-05-12

Byline: JACK NEFF It was a few lines in a 6,000-word article, but it threw Unilever and its advertising agency, Ogilvy & Mather, into a tizzy of denials, explanations and spin control. Whether or not the truth is finally known, the question...

Tags: advertisement, Dove, Ogilvy & Mather, photograph, Unilever PLC, women
P&G to Launch Ad Campaign Aimed at Black Women

- 2007-08-27

Unilever generated massive buzz with its Dove "Campaign for Real Beauty." You couldn't go anywhere for a couple of years without seeing those curvaceous, "real" women looking pleased to be in their underwear. Though you also couldn't avoid hearing critics complain that Unilever sells many other products in traditional ways...

Tags: Advertisement, Gender And Diversity, Diversity, Procter & Gamble Co., Unilever PLC, Women, Human Resources, Jessica Stillman
Unilever and WACS join forces for initiative promoting women in culinary careers

- 2007-05-21

LISLE, ILL. -- Unilever Foodsolutions has partnered with The World Association of Chefs' Societies, or WACS, to help encourage and promote women in culinary professions.

Tags: career, Unilever PLC, women