- CEO
- Fernando Fernandez
- Full Time Employees
- 94,912
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Household & Personal Products
- Address
- Unilever House London GL United Kingdom EC4Y 0DY
- IPO Date
- Apr 5, 2010
- Business
- Unilever PLC Unilever PLC manufactures and markets a broad portfolio of consumer goods worldwide, encompassing beauty and wellbeing products such as Dove, Sunsilk, Vaseline and Liquid I.V.; personal care items including Rexona, Lifebuoy, Lux and Axe; home care solutions like OMO, Domestos, Cif and Comfort; nutrition offerings featuring Hellmann’s and Knorr; and ice cream brands such as Wall’s, Ben & Jerry’s and Magnum. The company operates in over 190 countries, with significant presence in the United States, China and India, which together account for more than one-third of turnover, and maintains research and development facilities in China, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Founded in 1929 through the merger of British soap maker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie, Unilever PLC is headquartered in London, England.
Unilever PLC organizes its operations into five business groups—Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care, Nutrition and Ice Cream—serving 3.4 billion people daily through leading brands that generated €60.8 billion in turnover in 2024, with 58% from emerging markets. The company employs 125,000 people globally and focuses on premium, high-growth segments via its Growth Action Plan 2030.
Recent strategic changes include the March 2025 acquisition of UK personal care brand Wild, featuring plant-based, plastic-free deodorants, lip balms, bodywashes and handwashes; the June 2025 agreement to acquire Dr. Squatch, a US men's personal care brand, for $1.5 billion pending approvals; and the December 2024 sale of food brands Unox and Zwan to Zwanenberg Food Group, expected to close in 2026. Unilever PLC also advances the demerger of its Ice Cream business into The Magnum Ice Cream Company, targeted for completion by late 2025, alongside divestitures of other low-growth food assets and acquisitions like K18 hair care in 2024 to sharpen focus on Beauty & Wellbeing and Personal Care. These moves support a productivity program delivering cost savings and portfolio optimization.