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.

Unilever rose 1.4% supported by positive comments from Barclays which has high hopes for new chief executive, Hein Schumacher. The broker has upgraded the Marmite owner to overweight from neutral and raised its price target to 4,600p.

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Unilever CEO Hein Schumacher will have his pay frozen until 2026. Shareholders voted against his base salary of $1.96 million at the AGM in May.

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Unilever is freezing its chief executive's salary for two years after shareholders complained about the level of top executives' pay packages at the household goods giant. Hein Schumacher, in charge since July, will not receive a fixed pay increase in 2024 and 2025 after a58% shareholder vote against the pay deals at the annual general meeting.

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Unilever PLC (NYSE:UL ) Q3 2023 Results Conference Call October 26, 2023 3:30 AM ET Company Participants Hein Schumacher - Chief Executive Officer Graeme Pitkethly - Chief Financial Officer Jemma Spalton - Head of Investor Relations Conference Call Participants Rashad Kawan - Morgan Stanley Warren Ackerman - Barclays Guillaume Delmas - UBS Bruno Monteyne - Bernstein James Edward Jones - RBC Tom Skykes - Deutsche Jeff Stent - BNP Karel Zoete - Kepler Celine Pannuti - JPM Hein Schumacher Good morning, and welcome to Unilever's Third Quarter Trading Statement and CEO update. Today's agenda will run as follows.

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Unilever is selling Dollar Shave Club seven years after paying $1 billion for the brand. Nexus Capital Management, which owns Toms, will have majority ownership of Dollar Shave.

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Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) reported price growth continued to ease in the third quarter as it unveiled a 5.2% rise in underlying sales in the third quarter. The owner of Domestos and Ben & Jerry's said turnover decreased 3.8% to €15.2 billion, but underlying sales grew 5.2% boosted by higher prices, up 5.8%, while volumes fell 0.6%.

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Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) will provide third-quarter results on October 26, marking a chance for fresh chief executive Hein Schumacher to delve into his plans for the business. Having been appointed on July 1, Schumacher gave a brief overview of his plans to “improve competitiveness” at the consumer goods giant in its interim results later that month.

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Unilever PLC (UL) has become technically an oversold stock now, which implies exhaustion of the heavy selling pressure on it. This, combined with strong agreement among Wall Street analysts in revising earnings estimates higher, indicates a potential trend reversal for the stock in the near term.

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Unilever is a leading consumer goods company with a diverse portfolio of over 400 brands and a global reach. Despite recent underperformance, Unilever has strong financials and a resilient revenue stream, even during the pandemic. The company's growth trajectory has been modest, but there's more than enough potential to close the valuation gap with peers.

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Unilever has been able to maintain performance despite high inflation, but its competitiveness is deteriorating due to price increases. The company's free cash flow generation is reverting to a level of about €5Bn, limiting its ability to spend on buybacks. Household budgets will remain under pressure due to inflation, affecting Unilever's bottom line.

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Unilever has revived plans to sell a suite of mature brands after an earlier attempt in 2021 only received piecemeal offers. Brands on the block include seventies stalwarts such Brut, Timotei, St Ives, Matey and Alberto Balsam alongside some still going strong such as Q-Tips and Impulse.

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Unilever could reportedly sell off some of its beauty and personal care brands. The consumer packaged goods (CPG) giant is working with Morgan Stanley and Evercore to sell a selection of its “non-core” beauty and personal care brands, Q-tips among them, Reuters reported Wednesday (Sept.

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