Unilever

Unilever Plc engages in the manufacture and sale of consumer goods. It operates through the following segments: Beauty and Personal Care, Foods and Refreshment, and Home Care. The Beauty and Personal Care segment offers skin cleansing, hair care, skin care, and deodorants categories. The Foods and Refreshment segment sells ice cream, savory, dressings, and tea. The Home Care segment includes fabric category and a wide range of cleaning products. The company was founded by Antonius Johannes Jurgens, Samuel van den Bergh, and William Hulme Lever on January 1, 1930 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Unilever Plc engages in the manufacture and sale of consumer goods. It operates through the following segments: Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care, Nutrition, and Ice Cream. The Beauty & Wellbeing segment offers hair care, skin care, and prestige beauty and health & wellbeing. The Personal Care segment consists of sales of skin cleansing, deodorant, and oral care products. The Home Care segment comprises of sales of fabric care and a wide range of cleaning products. The Nutrition segment refers to sales of scratch cooking aids, dressings, and tea products. The Ice Cream segment covers primarily ice cream products. The company was founded by Antonius Johannes Jurgens, Samuel van den Bergh, and William Hulme Lever on January 1, 1930 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

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Has there ever been a time in the last 50 years when investors and Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) management alike were not concerned about sluggish growth? With brands such as (deep breath) Hellmann's, Vaseline, Ben & Jerry's, Knorr, Magnum, Wall's, Cif, Domestos, Dove, Lifebuoy, Lux, Omo and Sunsilk, the company specialises in everyday products – and if you don't think Ben & Jerry's is an everyday product then you should meet my wife.

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Unilever shares slumped Monday as the consumer products giant suggested it might increase its offer for GlaxoSmithKline's consumer health unit.

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GlaxoSmithKline PLC (LSE:GSK) said the £50bn offer by Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) for its Consumer Healthcare business fundamentally undervalues the business. Unilever made three unsolicited approaches to acquire the business – in which GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has a 68% stake (the rest is owned by US drugs giant Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE)) – and all were rejected by GSK.

GlaxoSmithKline shares rise after it rejects Unilever bid for its consumer healthcare division

Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) has confirmed that it had a bid for GlaxoSmithKline's consumer healthcare business rebuffed. GlaxoSmithKline PLC (LSE:GSK) (GSK) revealed yesterday that it knocked back three approaches late last year from Unilever for its up for sale consumer healthcare business, with the last bid pitched at £41.7bn plus £8.3bn in shares.

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(Reuters) -Dove soap maker Unilever signalled on Monday it would pursue a deal for GlaxoSmithKline's consumer health business, calling it a "strong strategic fit" after its 50-billion-pound approach ($68.4 billion) was rejected.

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GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer will hold out for a better bid of at least £60 billion for their joint consumer healthcare venture, in opposition to an earlier offer they didn't like, Financial Times writes. They're rejecting a £50 billion offer from Unilever, which GSK said was “fundamentally undervalued.

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Glaxo says Unilever has made three proposals to buy the GSK Consumer Healthcare business. Its most recent approach in December was for 50 billion pounds ($68.4 billion).

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Consumer goods giant Unilever has made a bid for pharmaceutical group Glaxosmithkline's consumer goods business worth roughly 50 billion pounds ($68.4 billion), Britain's Sunday Times reported.

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Unilever is the company behind well-known consumer good brands such as Cif, Knorr, Hellmann's, and Lifebuoy.

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Star fund manager Terry Smith has explained his recent purchase of shares in Amazon.com, while blaming Unilever PLC for having "lost the plot" and said PayPal might want to "stick to its knitting" as partial reasons for his Fundsmith Equity fund's underperformance in 2021. The near £30bn open-ended fund, which is the UK's largest retail fund, underperformed global markets in 2021, with a 22.1% return compared to 22.9% for the MSCI World index in sterling terms.

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Unilever stock (NYSE: UL) is up more than 5% in just one month (21 trading days), outperforming the S&P 500 which was up just a little over 4%. If you look at the change over the last five days, too, the stock has returned 1.5%, beating the market which was roughly unchanged.

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Dove soap maker Unilever Plc announced on Wednesday two changes to its top leadership, bringing in new hires to replace its chief legal and chief supply chain officers.

Unilever names new chief legal and supply chain officers

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Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR)'s decision to offload its tea business may have had many Brits spitting out the contents of their morning cuppa but not US broker Jefferies. “It's been a long time coming, but an important first step on ULVR's portfolio rationalisation journey has been taken,” the broker said.

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