All Unilever articles – Page 43
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Unilever senior vice-president, corporate development, Iain
Bestway has secured planning permission in Birmingham for its 28th cash and carry depot. The 27th site opened in Plymouth this month. Kerry's takeover bid for Golden Vale has received approval from the regulatory authorities in the UK and Irish...
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Analysts fear for Unilever
Unilever failed to impress investors this week with a disappointing third quarter trading update. Its shares tumbled despite food companies having proved relatively safe stock market havens since the US terror attacks on September 11. Unilever...
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Unilever Bestfoods UK: Getting it together
In the colossal process of bringing together two giant companies, Unilever Bestfoods UK is determined not to get so bogged down in integration that business continuity goes by the board, as sales director Tony Smith tells Karen Dempsey in an...
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Unilever Bestfoods organic buy
Newly formed Unilever Bestfoods UK has made its first deal in the rapidly growing organics sector with the purchase of small Scottish firm Go Organic. Founded and run by Sheila Ross and Charlotte Mitchell, Go Organic makes organic pasta sauces,...
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Unilever brands sale: Heinz prime candidate?
No clear favourite has emerged in the race to buy the package of brands put up for sale by Unilever although they are likely to fall into American hands. Unilever was forced to start the auction to satisfy EU regulators over its £13.7bn...
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Unilever gets EU green light for low cost rival to Benecol
Unilever's cholesterol lowering spread Flora Pro-activ is poised to go head to head with Benecol in the flourishing functional food market, following EU authorisation. The spread is made with natural plant sterols plant extracts found at low...
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News analysis: Unilever and Bestfoods
Eating to get slim Unilever is in serious and much vaunted trimming and pruning mood as it buys Bestfoods. So what casualties will we see asks Gillian Law For a company that wants to slash the number of brands it owns, Unilever is going about...
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Brands to be axed in Unilever shakeout
Unilever has finally revealed its strategy for increasing profits and culling brands by announcing 25,000 job losses worldwide 10% of its entire workforce. Although turnover increased 2% in the full year to December 31 1999 to £27.63bn, pretax...