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LONDON -- With its strong clutch of category-leading consumer brands and growing emerging-market presence, Unilever (ISE: ULVR.L) (NYS: UL) is a business with very definite attractions. A 67 ...
Nina Schrank, head of plastics at Greenpeace UK, said: “Unilever’s profits are drenched in plastic pollution. “Brands like Dove might give them a clean public face and a healthy bank balance ...
Unilever also separated its food spreads business, [58] including its Flora and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! brands, into a standalone entity named Unilever Baking, Cooking and Spreading. [59] The separation was first announced in December 2014 and was made in response to declining worldwide sales in that product category.
Ben & Jerry's and Unilever are no longer the perfect match they seemed to be 20 years ago. In 2000, Unilever bought the progressive ice cream company, hoping to bottle some of its feel-good vibes ...
On 30 March 2004, Unilever Pakistan accepted an offer of Rs. 1.33 billion for the sale of its Dalda brand and related business of edible oils and fats to the newly incorporated company Dalda Foods (Pvt.) Limited. [17] On 16 January 2014, Unilever Philippines sold the Royal pasta brand to Philippine company RFM Corporation for around Php 2.1 ...
William Hesketh Lever was a well known soap manufacturer and became involved in the West Africa trade to supply his company, primarily with palm oil.. In 1916 Lever took over the Manchester firm of H. Watson & Co., which had a fleet of eight vessels, with names derived from villages in Cheshire and Shropshire: Colemere, Delamere, Eskmere, Flaxmere, Linmere, Oakmere, Rabymere and Redesmere.
When Gwen Whiting sold her cleaning brand the Laundress to Unilever in 2019, it was a triumphant moment 17 years into her run as a boot-strapped founder, securing a reported $100 million exit to a ...
Many of Kenya's problems relating to the export of goods are believed by economists to be caused by the fact that Kenya's exports are inexpensive items that do not bring substantial amounts of money into the country. [70] Kenya is the dominant trade partner for Uganda (12.3% exports, 15.6% imports) and Rwanda (30.5% exports, 17.3% imports). [91 ...