Unilever - Anglo Dutch consumer conglomerate, owning hundreds of food, personal care and home care products from Persil to Oxo, Lynx to Liptons tea, Dove to Flora. At the time of this takeover they had also just acquired Slim-Fast. Unilever has recently decided to concentrate on 400 key brands and dispose of up to 1,200 less profitable brands. Unilever paid £203m, at $43.6 a share, a big premium over the previous day's closing share price of $34.93. Formed in 1978 by two school friends…
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