UNILEVER INDONESIA

Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational

consumer goods company, headquartered in

London, United Kingdom and Rotterdam, The

Netherlands. Unilever products include food,

candy, energy drinks, baby food, soft drinks,

ice cream, tea, cleaning agents, coffee, pet

food, bottled water, chewing gum, frozen pizza,

pregnancy tests, juice, beauty products,

personal care, breakfast cereals, medicine and

pharmaceutical healthcare products. Unilever is

the largest producer of soap in the world.

Unilever is one of the oldest multinational

companies and its products are available in

around 190 countries.

Unilever owns over 400 brands, with a turnover

in 2017 of 53.7 billion euros, and thirteen

brands with sales of over one billion euros:

Axe/Lynx, Dove, Omo, Heartbrand ice creams,

Hellmann's, Knorr, Lipton, Lux, Magnum,

Rexona/Degree, Sunsilk and Surf. It is a dual-

listed company consisting of Unilever N.V.,

based in Rotterdam, and Unilever plc, based in

London. The two companies operate as a single

business, with a common board of directors.

Unilever is organised into four main divisions

– Foods, Refreshment (beverages and ice cream),

Home Care, and Beauty & Personal Care. It has

research and development facilities in China,

India, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and

United States.

Unilever was founded on 2 September 1929, by

the merger of the Dutch margarine producer

Margarine Unie and the British soapmaker Lever

Brothers. During the second half of the 20th

century, the company increasingly diversified

from being a maker of products made of oils and

fats, and expanded its operations worldwide. It

has made numerous corporate acquisitions,

including Lipton (1971), Brooke Bond (1984),

Chesebrough-Ponds (1987), Best Foods (2000),

Ben & Jerry's (2000), Alberto-Culver (2010),

Dollar Shave Club (2016) and Pukka Herbs

(2017). Unilever divested its specialty

chemicals businesses to ICI in 1997. In the

2010s, under the leadership of Paul Polman, the

company gradually shifted its focus towards

health and beauty brands and away from food

brands showing slow growth.

Unilever plc has a primary listing on the

London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of

the FTSE 100 Index. Unilever N.V. has a primary

listing on Euronext Amsterdam and is a

constituent of the AEX index. The company is

also a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock

market index. Unilever N.V. also has a primary

listing in NYSE.