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Market Cap:$38.2B
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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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 Deal
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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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Unilever, Tomra Launch Front-of-Store Recycling Promo
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Publicis acquires Unilever CRM program in France
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Publicis Buys Unilever's French CRM Program
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DDB beats BBH to Flora advertising brief
BNET
- 2009-11-10
The agency won the project after a pitch against Bartle Bogle Hegarty, the incumbent on the business, and will now be responsible for rolling out a campaign in Western Europe and North America next year.BBH has handled the Flora and Becel accounts since 2004, and has produced a series of...
The Mayo Clinic
BNET
- 2009-11-06
One afternoon in July, executives at Unilever's corporate headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., had decided it was the right time to serve up, of all things, Thanksgiving dinner. Inside the test kitchen next to a conference room, about half a dozen women in aprons and tie-back hats hurried about a...
Unilever Offers Little Upside Based on Earnings Outlook
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-11-05
Veronique Adam submits: Stock price: €20.2 ($29.8) Conclusion: Top line slowing down at a time when peers are accelerating. Never ending restructuring. Better opportunities elsewhere (cf our Nestle (NSRGY.PK) comment) based on our estimated fair value range of €19-21 ($28-31) per share. Q3 results: Sales down 2%...
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...
Sara Lee Cleans Up in Unilever Deal
BNET
- 2009-09-28
Sara Lee is one step closer to its goal of shedding all of its non-food-related brands. Unilever has agreed to buy Sara Lee's personal care products -- including the brands Sanex, Duschdas and Radox -- for $1.9 billion. Now Sara Lee just needs to sell off its...
Publicis Plays Catch-Up With Unilever Mag Acquisition; Operating Leverage is Key
BNET
- 2009-09-10
Some clarity is beginning to emerge as to why exactly Publicis -- whose dominant client is Procter & Gamble -- bought Unilever's Pour Tous Vous Dire web site and magazine in France. It's all about the operating leverage provided by owning the media your clients are buying. by Jim Edwards
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...
Publicis Buys Unilever CRM Platform
BNET
- 2009-09-01
In an unusual move designed to boost its broader digital strategy, Paris-based holding company Publicis Groupe said it has acquired Pour Tout Vous Dire, the French customer relationship management program of key client Unilever.Unilever's own brands use the platform to reach more than 5 million households, and the packaged-goods giant...
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...
Droga5 added to Unilever roster
BNET
- 2009-08-14
It picked up the business following a pitch against AKQA, Razorfish and OgilvyOne, the incumbent.The agency will now work with Unilever's in-house team to create a digital campaign for the brand, which will appear in spring 2010.Unilever spends between $20 million and $25 million on media for the Suave brand...
| Volume | 2,997,698 |
| Shares Outstanding | 1.2B |
| Market Cap | 38.2B |
| Year High | 31.11 |
| Year Low | 16.95 |
| Earnings Per Share | 2.56 |
| P/E Ratio | 11.6289 |
| Dividend | 1.0047 |
| Yield | 3.3749 |
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