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Sanjiv Mehta (born 1959/1960) is an Indian business executive, and the former chairman and managing director (MD) of Hindustan Unilever Limited, India's largest fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) company and one of the top five most valuable companies in India. [4]
Harish Manwani (born 1953) is an Indian business executive who was the global chief operating officer of Unilever. He is currently [ when? ] the senior operating Partner at Blackstone and a director of Whirlpool , Qualcomm , Gilead Sciences and Tata Sons among others.
Ramabadran Gopalakrishnan (born 25 December 1945) is an Indian businessman and author. Until his retirement he was an executive director of Tata Sons Ltd [1] [2] and served on the boards of Tata Power, Tata Technologies, AkzoNobel India, Castrol India and ABP Pvt. Ltd. [3] [4] Before joining Tata he was Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever, the Indian subsidiary of Unilever plc.
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In 2010, Unilever acquired the Diplom-Is in Denmark, [47] Unilever announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to sell its consumer tomato products business in Brazil to Cargill, [48] purchased Alberto-Culver, a maker of personal care and household products including Simple, VO5, Nexxus, TRESemmé, and Mrs. Dash, for US$3.7 billion.
In September 1929, Unilever was formed by a merger of the operations of Dutch Margarine Unie and British soapmaker Lever Brothers, named as a blend of the two firms' names. [1] By 1930, it employed 250,000 people and in terms of market value, was the largest company in Britain. [7] Unilever was the first modern multinational company. [7]
Ian Keith Meakins (born 31 August 1956) is a British businessman. He was the chief executive of Wolseley plc, a British multinational building materials distribution company, from 2009 to 2016.
In 2018, Unilever supported the abolition of Dutch dividend-tax, [29] even though over 80% of Dutch citizens were against the tax-cut as it meant a loss of about 2 billion euros of tax-revenue a year for the Dutch state. [30] In October 2018, it was announced Unilever has cancelled plans to move headquarters from London to Rotterdam. [31]