Archive of all Unilever articles – Page 43
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NewsSuppliers hit out at Unilever 'bullying' over grey market
Small family-run wholesalers have slammed Unilever's "bullying tactics" after it wrote to them demanding up to £2,000 after they bought grey market goods. The small businesses are customers of the Vitality Group, a wholesaler sued by Unilever...
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Smith retires from Unilever, making way for Simmons
Tony Smith, vice president of customer development at Unilever UK & Ireland, is set to retire later this year following a 28-year career at the manufacturing giant.
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Unilever buys TIGI hair products
Unilever has completed its deal to buy TIGI, the Toni & Guy premium hair care business, for $411.5m (£295m). A spokesman confirmed the company had "obtained the required regulatory clearances and has completed the acquisition of the TIGI hair...
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NewsWholesaler blames Unilever grey sales lawsuit for collapse
Unilever has been accused of heavy-handed tactics after it sued a small wholesaler for selling grey market products, an action the wholesaler claims contributed to its collapse. Vitality Group, a health and beauty wholesaler, blames Unilever...
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Unilever united
Unilever UK’s “Drastic” Dave Lewis has further streamlining to do but is also eyeing acquisitions. Liz Hamson met him
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New Unilever boss unveils management re-jig
Unilever chief executive Paul Polman has pledged to improve the company’s supply chain capabilities and focus on innovation in the wake of a major overhaul of the group’s senior management.
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Unilever just first of many to feel freeze, warn City analysts
As the UK suffered its biggest freeze in decades, analysts warned that Unilever’s results heralded a “chill Siberian wind” for the top global food and drink suppliers.Despite revealing that disposals and currency changes had helped boost net...
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Unilever buys Toni & Guy hair brands
Unilever is set to acquire TIGI, the Toni & Guy premium hair care business, for $411.5m (£295m). Adding to a portfolio that includes Silvikrin and Timotei, the deal marks Unilever's first step into hair salon products and includes major names Bed Head, Catwalk and S-Factor...
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Curry king and Unilever board narrowly escape Taj terrorism
Curry king Sir Gulam Noon has spoken of the horror of being caught up in the terror attacks in Mumbai that left nearly 200 dead, including leading industry figure Andreas Liveras. Sir Gulam had booked a table in the Taj Mahal Palace hotel's...
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Unilever deodorant cures hairy armpits
Unilever has launched a deodorant that it claims is the first to reduce underarm hair growth.The Sure and Dove Hair Minimising deodorants will be available in both aerosol and roll-on formats and Unilever predicts it will be so popular with...
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Currency fluctuation impacts on Unilever
UK-based Unilever has said currency fluctuations as well as inflation are affecting its performance. Although it reported underlying YTD sales growth of 7.4% and net profits up 22% thanks to disposals, Unilever said much of the increase in...
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Unilever ups the ante in toiletries with Lynx drive
Analysis of promotional activity in toiletries over the past two years shows Lynx rising from 10th place to hit the top five
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Campaign trail: Unilever's Hellmann's mayonnaise
Unilever is highlighting its switch to free-range eggs across its Hellmann's mayonnaise range with a new TV campaign. Breaking on 1 July, the ad will focus on the quality and provenance of the product's three core ingredients - free-range...
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Unilever ice cream chief heads Uniross
The former general manager of Unilever Ice Cream UK has switched to the rechargeable battery sector. Mike Doole, who spent 18 years in strategy and business development at Birds Eye Wall's and Unilever UK and was responsible for leading...
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Unilever pays Mars over ice cream debate
Unilever has agreed to pay Mars an unspecified sum in compensation to end a dispute over ice cream sales.The row began in 1991 when Mars said Unilever's strategy of giving branded freezers to Irish retailers on the condition they stocked...
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Unilever forecasts ice cream demand
Unilever is launching a weather-forecasting service this week to help retailers plan ice cream purchasing.The model correlates average weekly temperatures and sunshine hours with sales data for the past three years, enabling the company...
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Unilever to spin off brands
Unilever is set to spin off 14 European food brands, including Marmite, Bovril, Pot Noodle and Peperami, into a separate company.The new company would be managed from Rotterdam in the Netherlands and would provide specialist management focus...
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Unilever searches for Cescau successor
Unilever has started the search for a successor for group CEO Patrick Cescau.Members of the board's nominations committee have begun to sound out a number of internal and external candidates, although a decision on his replacement is not...
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Unilever brands muscle in on own label territory
Unilever is launching three of its key brands, Bertolli, Knorr and Colman's, into chilled ready meals in an attempt to leverage their brand equity in the own label-dominated category.The nine-strong range, which will be backed with a £1m...
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Unilever turns Magnum mini to make it an everyday snack
Unilever is repositioning its Magnum ice cream as an everyday treat with the help of Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria. As part of a major overhaul of the brand, Longoria will front a multimillion-pound campaign - its biggest ever -...