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Unilever

Unilever

Head office: Netherlands

Unilever N.V., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and supplies fast moving consumer goods in food, and home and personal care product categories. It offers food items, including soups, bouillons, sauces, snacks, mayonnaise, salad dressings, olive oil, margarines, spreads, and frozen foods, as well as cooking products, such as liquid margarines under the brand names, Knorr, Hellmann's, Calve, Wish-Bone, Amora, Bertolli, Becel, Flora, Rama, Blue Band, and Country Crock; ice cream under the Heart brand, including Cornetto, Magnum, Carte d'Or, and Solero, as well as under the brand names, Ben & Jerry's, Breyers, Klondike, and Popsicle; tea under the brand names, Lipton and Brooke Bond; nutritionally enhanced staples under the Annapurna and AdeS brand names; and weight management products under SlimFast brand name.

The company also supplies personal care products, including deodorants, skin cleansers, hair care, and skin care products under Axe, Dove, Lux, Pond's, Rexona, Sunsilk, Suave, Clear, Lifebuoy, and Vaseline brand names, as well as oral care products under Signal and Close Up brand names. Further, Unilever's home care products comprise laundry products, such as tablets, and traditional powders and liquids for washing by hand or machine, as well as soap bars under Comfort, Omo, Radiant, Skip, Snuggle, and Surf brand names; and household care products under Cif and Domestos brand names. It sells its products through its sales force, as well as through independent brokers, agents, and distributors to chain, wholesale, co-operative, and independent grocery accounts, and to food service distributors and institutions primarily in Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa. The company, formerly known as Naamlooze Vennootschap Margarine Unie, was founded in 1927 and is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Net Profit Margin  (ttm)  10.42%
 
Operating Margin (ttm)  13.02%

Website: http://www.unilever.com

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