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Total equity. €20.764 billion (2023) [1] Number of employees. 127,000 (2024) [2] Website. unilever.com. Unilever PLC is a British multinational fast-moving consumer goods company founded on 2 September 1929 following the merger of British soap maker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie. It is headquartered in London ...
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]
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] Mehta became the CEO and MD of Hindustan Unilever in October 2013, and in June ...
Unilever Nigeria Plc is a publicly listed company with trading and manufacturing interest in the consumer goods market. In 2014, it was listed among the top 20 most valuable companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange . [ 2 ]
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa (born 17 November 1952) is a South African businessman and politician serving as the 5th and current president of South Africa since 2018. A former anti-apartheid activist and trade union leader, Ramaphosa is also the president (leader) of the African National Congress (ANC). Ramaphosa rose to national prominence as ...
The £39.2m Manufacturing Technology Centre and £3.4m Environment Centre were opened on Thursday 26 May 1995 by cabinet minister David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, also the Conservative MP for Wirral West; also attending was Sir Michael Perry, the chairman of Unilever, and Barry Porter, the Conservative MP for Wirral South (whose untimely death ...
In southern Africa, Remgro-owned Siqalo Foods, rather than Upfield, holds the rights to several of these brands. After Upfield was spin off from Unilever in 2018, the Purfleet-on-Thames factory was closed, making 200 employees redundant. [16] Underperformance and excessive costs were determined to be the reason for the closing of the factory.
The Royal Niger Company was a mercantile company chartered by the British government in the nineteenth century. It was formed in 1879 as the United African Company and renamed to National African Company in 1881 and to Royal Niger Company in 1886. In 1929, the company became part of the United Africa Company, [1] which came under the control of ...