Archive of all Unilever articles – Page 44
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Unilever carries out review of Birds Eye supply chain
Unilever Ice Cream & Frozen Food has announced a major review of its supply chain for Birds Eye in the UK.A spokesman said both sourcing and manufacturing arrangements were being scrutinised.The future of three of its four UK...
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Unilever seals Ambrosia sell-off
Unilever Bestfoods has agreed to sell its Ambrosia and Brown & Polson businesses to Premier Foods for an undisclosed sum. Ambrosia, known for its ready-to-use custard and creamed rice puddings and cornflour maker Brown & Polson, with...
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Unilever looks to chilled market
Unilever is to introduce a range of chilled dairy food products under the Conimex brand at supermarkets in Holland from September.The Anglo-Dutch maker of Hellmann’s mayonnaise and Dove soap said the market for chilled dairy-cream products...
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Pessimism at Unilever
Shares in Unilever fell by over 10% after it warned, for the second time this year, that sales growth of its leading brands would miss its targets. The Anglo-Dutch group cut its full-year target for growth for its top 400 brands, such as Magnum...
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Unilever sells oils unit
Unilever is to sell its Van den Bergh Oils business in the UK to Pura Foods, a subsidiary of ADM International, as part of its strategy to focus on its top 400 brands.The refinery based in Purfleet has third party sales of £40m and employs...
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Unilever sells Iberia Foods in US
Unilever has agreed to sell its Iberia Foods business Stateside to an affiliate of the Brooklyn Bottling Group in New York.The Anglo-Dutch group said Iberia Foods has annual sales of $43m and caters to the Hispanic-American market through...
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Unilever call up for BT
Unilever has appointed BT to manage its entire communications infrastructure for the next seven years.BT said that under the £630m deal – the biggest contract ever for the telephone group – Unilever will be provided with a “high quality and...
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Unilever Ventures has been snowed under with ideas from eage
The venture capital outfit is looking for fresh initiatives, but mad inventors and me-too operators need not apply. Says Coombs: "Lots of people come to us with things that have already been done which we're not interested in, while others approach...
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Unilever and William Reed Exhibitions have joined the Associ
Marks and Spencer has extended its home delivery facility to 28 stores in central London. Customers buying over £50 of food can have it delivered free with a £4 charge for smaller baskets. Sainsbury has opened its third railway station Local...
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Govt backs Safeway/Unilever RFID trial
The government is sponsoring a £5.5m Safeway and Unilever joint trial of radio frequency identification tagging as an anti-crime initiative. Safeway supply and logistics director Mark Aylwin said: "Unilever responded to an advert from the Home...
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n Unilever Bestfoods has plans to turn global brand Knorr fr
Ask any UK shopper what they know about the Knorr brand and the answer is likely to be something along the lines of: "They're the one that makes stock cubes and packet soups, aren't they?" They might possibly remember the Gallic chef in 1980s TV ads...
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After the cull, Unilever looks to remove the brand barriers
Health, hygiene and vitality will be Unilever's buzzwords in the future with a focus on stretching brands like Dove, Knorr and Slim Fast into new categories. Joint chairman Niall Fitzgerald said: "We have removed barriers to brand thinking and...
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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...