Company Growth (employees)
Unilever is headquartered in London, GB
Key People at Unilever
Paul Polman
Chief Executive Officer
Jean-Marc Huët
Chief Financial Officer
Michael Treschow
Chairman, Unilever N.V. and PLC
Unilever Office Locations
Unilever has offices in London, Karachi, Englewood Cliffs, Leatherhead and in 108 other locations
London, GB (HQ)
100 Victoria Embankment
Ho Chi Minh City, VN
156 Nguyen Luong Bang Avenue, Tan Phu Ward, District 7
Moscow, RU
Sergeya Makeeva Str. 13
Mexico City, MX
R. de R.L. de C.V., Tamarindos 150 Col., Bosques de las Lomas, Deleg., Cuajimalpa
Hamburg, DE
Strandkai 1
Dubai, AE
FZE P.O. Box 17055 Jebel Ali
Unilever Data and Metrics
Unilever Financial Metrics
Unilever's revenue was reported to be £2 b in FY, 2015
USD
Net income (H1, 2017) | 3.9 b |
Market capitalization (22-Sep-2017) | 161.6 b |
Closing share price (22-Sep-2017) | 57.7 |
Cash (31-Dec-2015) | 885 k |
Unilever's current market capitalization is $161.6 b.
| GBP | FY, 2013 | FY, 2014 | FY, 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
Revenue | 2.1 b | 2.1 b | 2 b |
Revenue growth, % | 1% | (7%) | |
Cost of goods sold | 1.6 b | 1.8 b | 1.7 b |
Gross profit | 531.8 m | 369.7 m | 319.2 m |
| USD | H1, 2017 |
|---|---|
Net Income | 3.9 b |
| GBP | FY, 2013 | FY, 2014 | FY, 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
Cash | 868 k | 885 k | |
Accounts Receivable | 112.3 m | 97.2 m | 85.6 m |
Current Assets | 899 m | 541.1 m | 734.3 m |
PP&E | 552.1 m | 595.2 m | 530.2 m |
| GBP | FY, 2013 | FY, 2014 | FY, 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
Income Taxes Paid | (21.7 m) | (18.4 m) | (13.2 m) |
Unilever Acquisitions / Subsidiaries
| Acquired Company | Date | Deal Size |
|---|---|---|
| Pukka Herbs | September 07, 2017 | |
| Sir Kensington’s | April 20, 2017 | |
| Living Proof | December 16, 2016 | |
| Dollar Shave Club | July 19, 2016 | $1 b |
Unilever Market Value History
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Unilever Online and Social Media Presence
Unilever News and Updates
September 11, 2017
Doubling India business is a no-brainer for Unilever, says CEO Paul Polman
Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever has high hopes for India. Hindustan Unilever (HUL), which owns brands like Surf Excel and Lux in the country, expects…
August 29, 2017
We tried the AI software companies like Goldman Sachs and Unilever use to analyze job applicants
We got to experience HireVue's AI technology that allows companies to sort and grade video job applicants. Below is a transcript of the video.
Rich Feloni: I'm Rich Feloni, strategy reporter at Business Insider. I first heard about HireVue when I wrote about Unilever’s exper…
August 22, 2017
Unilever, Walmart, Nestle and IBM are starting a major blockchain project
Unilever, Nestle, Walmart and a handful of the world's top retail and food brands are joining forces to tackle food safety with the help of blockchain technology. The 10 companies will work with IBM on a new project that will look at how the distributed ledger technology (DLT) behind bitcoin coul…
August 01, 2017
Helpling, Rocket Internet’s home services company, picks up investment from Unilever Ventures
Helpling, the Rocket Internet-founded company that lets you book a range of home services online, has raised further funding. This time around, the undisclosed backing — which I understand to be “several million” Euros — comes from Unilever Ventures, the venture arm of Unilever, in what can undoubt…
May 11, 2017
Unilever leads $9 million investment in meal kit startup Sun Basket
A meal kit startup with a focus on healthful recipes and organic ingredients, Sun Basket, has just raised $9 million in series C-2 round of venture funding led by Unilever Ventures, with Baseline Ventures and Founders Circle Capital joining the round. The investment brings the startup’s total capit…
April 09, 2017
Unilever looks to UK government as shareholders back internal shakeup
Unilever’s chairman Marijn Dekkers has said the company’s shareholders support the internal changes following Kraft Heinz abandoning its takeover bid. In the wake of Kraft Heinz’s failed £115bn takeover bid for Unilever, the company behind Dove soap, Magnum ice-cream and Lynx deodorant, publishe…