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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 ...
Schumacher began his career at Unilever. [1] He was previously the CEO of the Dutch dairy co-operative FrieslandCampina from 2018 until 2023. [1][2][3] Before that, he worked at Heinz and was based in China for four years. [2] Schumacher has been a non-executive director of Unilever from October 2022 until his appointment as its CEO in July 2023.
During his Unilever career he worked and lived in Ireland, the Netherlands, South Africa, the US and the UK. FitzGerald has chaired a broad range of companies and public bodies. These include Reuters, Hakluyt, the Nelson Mandela Legacy Trust, International Business Council, Conference Board, Investment Climate Facility for Africa, British ...
January 2019 – June 2023. Predecessor. Paul Polman. Successor. Hein Schumacher. Alan Jope CBE (born 1963 or 1964) is a British businessman. He served as CEO of Unilever from January 2019 until June 2023, succeeding Paul Polman. [1] Upon stepping down as CEO of Unilever, Jope was succeeded by Hein Schumacher who took on the role from July 2023.
Paulus Gerardus Josephus Maria Polman, KBE [1] (born 11 July 1956 [2]) is a Dutch businessman and author. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of the British/Dutch consumer goods company Unilever. [3] Polman is also the co-author (with Andrew Winston) of Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take.
Unilever is the world's largest manufacturer of ice cream, and also has large manufacturing sites in Hellendoorn in the Netherlands, Saint-Dizier in France and Caivano in Italy. Nestle and Unilever have about a third of the global production each. [10] The site was built to supply 25 million people in the west and north of England, and Wales.
Joining Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever straight from university, he spent most of his career in the company's toiletries businesses (soaps and toothpaste) in France and Britain. In 1979 he moved to Lever Brothers in New York City, where he spent four years cleaning house at the Lever Brothers subsidiary.
CMCO of Unilever. Title. Chief Marketing and Communications Officer. Term. 2010–2019. Keith Charles Frederick Weed CBE (born 1961) is Unilever 's former CMCO, a role he held from 2010 to 2019. [1] In 2020, Weed was appointed President and Chairman of the Royal Horticultural Society. In addition to this, he currently holds various trustee and ...