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Unilever is to acquire the personal care division of Sara Lee for £1.2bn, including a bath products factory in Slough that employs 300. 28-Sep-2009 Unilever has won planning permission to build an anaerobic digester at its ice cream factory in Gloucester, in order to convert waste into power. 06-May-2009 Unilever has acquired TIGI, the owner of Toni & Guy hair product ranges such as S-Factor, Bed Head and Catwalk, for £295m. 27-Jan-2009 Unilever is to expand the 450-strong workforce at its ice cream factory in Gloucester with 20 new jobs. 11-Dec-2008 Unilever is to merge its global research and development operations with the loss of 250 of the 6,500 jobs, including about 100 job losses in Port Sunlight and Bedford. 02-Dec-2008 Unilever has sold Persil Services, its chain of 75 in-store dry cleaning outlets, to Timpsons for undisclosed terms. 02-Jun-2008 Unilever is to transfer brands including Marmite, Bovril and Pot Noodle to a new unit managed from the Netherlands, prompting speculation that they could be sold off. 30-Apr-2008 Unilever is to shed 62 of the 220 jobs at its Pot Noodle factory in Crumlin, Gwent, but £1m will be invested in a new automation line. 28-Apr-2008 Unilever is to shed 48 of the 300 jobs at its Elida Faberge factory in Leeds by the end of the year, but £10m will be invested in the expansion of the site's aerosols deodorants business. 25-Apr-2008 Unilever is to acquire Inmarko, the Russian ice-cream company with annual sales of £86m. 05-Feb-2008 Unilever is to sell its Lawry's and Adolph's seasonings and marinades business in the US and Canada to McCormick for £290m. 15-Nov-2007 Unilever is to sell its Boursin cheese brand to Le Groupe Bel of France for £278m. 06-Nov-2007 Unilever is to shed about 315 jobs at factories in Burton, Warrington and Port Sunlight over the next year, while the future of sites in Leeds, Crumlin and Essex is under review. 21-Sep-2007 Unilever is planning to shed up to 20,000 jobs and close about 50 of its 300 sites worldwide, as part of a reorganisation that will also involve the sale of its US laundry business and other brands. 03-Aug-2007 Unilever is to shed about 40 senior management jobs and 300 sales, marketing and finance jobs by the end of next year, while three offices in Crawley, Walton and Kingston upon Thames will be merged onto one site in Leatherhead. 16-Jul-2007 Unilever has sold its Brazilian margarine brands and some machinery to Perdigao for about £20m. 26-Jun-2007 Unilever is to expand its deodorants research and development centre at Seacroft in Leeds in 2007, with the creation of 28 jobs. 30-Nov-2006 Unilever is to sell its Birds Eye and Iglo frozen food brands to private equity firm Permira for £1.16bn, including operations in the UK, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Portugal and the Netherlands. 28-Aug-2006 Unilever is planning to set up a new 150,000 sq ft office at the Leatherhead Office Park in Surrey, and staff will relocate from a number of existing sites. 15-Jun-2006 Vectura and Unilever Ventures are forming a joint venture to develop prescription products through a newly-created company called PharmaKodex. 17-May-2006 Unilever is planning to merge its three UK operations into a single company, including the Crawley-based foods business, the Kingston-based household products business and the Walton-based frozen foods business. 23-Mar-2006 Unilever is expected to award a £500m global outsourcing contract to Accenture, covering human resources and payroll. 14-Feb-2006 Unilever is looking to sell most of its European frozen foods operations, which will affect 900 staff at its Birds Eye factory in Lowestoft. 10-Feb-2006 Unilever is to outsource some of its finance functions to IBM centres in Portugal, Poland and India, with the loss of about 50 UK-based jobs, and a decision will soon be made on the outsourcing of its HR and IT services. 29-Dec-2005 Unilever is to sell Mora, its Dutch snack foods business with annual sales of £70m, to Ad van Geloven for undisclosed terms. 21-Dec-2005 Unilever is considering plans to outsource its payroll, human resources and IT functions, which would affect up to 2,500 jobs across 25 European countries. 17-Oct-2005 Unilever has appointed Goldman Sachs to conduct a review of its frozen foods business, which could lead to the sale of some or all of the assets. 22-Aug-2005 Unilever is to transfer about 100 European managers to Switzerland, in order to simplify its operational structure and create a new subsidiary called Unilever Supply Chain Company. 11-Jul-2005 Unilever is to sell its worldwide perfume operations to Coty for £438m, including a manufacturing site in the US and a distribution centre in France. 23-May-2005 Unilever has sold its Crisp 'n Dry and Cookeen cooking fat businesses to Princes Manufacturing for undisclosed terms. 09-Feb-2005 Unilever is to sell the Birds Eye frozen food factory in Ladysmith Road, Grimsby, to Alpine Coldstores, which should help to secure some of the 600 jobs. 12-Jan-2005 Unilever has agreed to sell its frozen pizza and baguette business to Dr Oetker of Germany for undisclosed terms. 02-Dec-2004 Unilever is to close the Elmlea cream plant in Needham Market in 2006, with the loss of 66 jobs, in order to transfer production to its site in Purfleet. 29-Nov-2004 Unilever is to close the Birds Eye frozen food factory in Grimsby early next year, with the loss of 600 jobs. 08-Oct-2004 White Young Green has been selected as preferred consultant for the development of a £20m national distribution centre in Cannock for Unilever Bestfoods by the end of next year. 28-Sep-2004 Unilever is looking to sell the Birds Eye fish products factory in Grimsby, prompting fears that the site may be closed with the loss of 650 jobs. 06-Sep-2004 Unilever Ventures is to close its Rocket meal kits subsidiary, having cancelled trials in stores operated by Somerfield, Co-op, Total and Whistlestop. 21-Jun-2004 Unilever Bestfoods is to shed 38 of the 176 jobs at the Colman's mustard and sauces factory in Norwich. 10-May-2004 Unilever Bestfoods is looking to sell some of its cooking fat brands in the UK and Ireland, but there will be minimum impact on staff at its Purfleet factory. 19-Apr-2004 Associated British Foods is to acquire the Mexican oils and fats business of Unilever for £65m. 10-Mar-2004 Unilever has confirmed plans to open up to 100 Wall's ice-cream parlours across the country over the next five years. 22-Dec-2003 Unilever is to review the future of the supply chain for Birds Eye frozen foods, which is likely to affect factories in Hull, Grimsby and Lowestoft. 10-Nov-2003 Unilever Bestfoods is planning to build a £50m national distribution centre at Kingswood Lakeside, Staffordshire, with the creation of up to 300 jobs, and may transfer work from sites in Peterborough, Warrington and Worksop. 06-Nov-2003 Unilever is to sell Ambrosia, the Devon-based desserts manufacturer with 200 staff, and cornflour supplier Brown & Polson to Premier Foods for undisclosed terms. 04-Nov-2003 Unilever Bestfoods has shed 40 jobs at its factory in Needham Market, Suffolk, in order to transfer its dry mix business to a site in Manchester. 01-Oct-2003 Unilever is to sell its dental care business in the US and Canada to Church & Dwight for £65m. 11-Sep-2003 Unilever has sold its edible oils refinery in Purfleet, Essex, to Archer Daniels Midland of the US for undisclosed terms, involving the transfer of 140 staff. 16-May-2003 Unilever is seeking a 125,000 sq ft temporary head office site in London, in preparation for the refurbishment of its existing site on Victoria Embankment. 28-Apr-2003 Unilever has announced plans for a £96m investment in ice-cream marketing and development over the next three years, including the opening of 1,000 kiosks on beaches and in shopping centres throughout the world. 07-Mar-2003 Unilever has announced a £239m deal to take control of its south-east Asian processed foods joint venture with Ajinomoto of Japan, which includes six factories and almost 1,900 staff. 19-Feb-2003 Unilever is planning to sell its Frigedoc frozen foods business in France to Toupargel for £52m. 10-Jan-2003 Unilever is to shed 70 jobs at its Bird's Eye Walls frozen foods factory in Lowestoft. 16-Dec-2002 Unilever is to sell Pamol Group, the Malaysian producer of palm oil, to Palmco for £97m. 03-Dec-2002 Unilever has agreed to sell Iberia Foods, its US food and cleaning products distribution business, to the Brooklyn Bottling Group for undisclosed terms. 25-Nov-2002 Unilever has agreed a £8m deal with Merchants to outsource the customer contact centre for Bestfoods, Birds Eye Walls and Lever Faberge, using a new centre in Milton Keynes. 14-Oct-2002 Unilever is to invest up to £107m in the creation of new venture funds to improve the way new product ideas are developed, and is particularly interested in the health sector and ideas that free up time at home. 01-Oct-2002 Unilever is to shed 320 of the 773 jobs at its Birds Eye Wall's ice cream factory in Gloucester. 27-Sep-2002 Unilever has sold Loders Croklaan, its edible oils business with plants in the Netherlands, Canada, Egypt and the US, to IOI Corporation of Malaysia for £139m. 02-Sep-2002 Unilever is to shed 190 jobs at its Home & Personal Care research and development laboratory in Wirral. 20-Jun-2002 Unilever is in discussions with a number of companies about plans to sell its Loders Croklaan international oils and fats business for about £62m. 03-May-2002 Associated British Foods is to acquire the Mazola corn products business in the US and 18 other brands from Unilever for £248m. 24-Apr-2002 Unilever Bestfoods Ireland has sold a number of food brands to Chivers Ireland, including YR Sauces, Kardee Sauces and Goodall's Herbs & Spices. 22-Apr-2002 Unilever has sold Cremanaze, the Kent-based sauces and dressings manufacturer with 30 staff, in order to focus on key brands. 28-Jan-2002 Unilever has sold Unipath, the Bedford-based women's health diagnostics business with 500 staff, to Inverness Medical Innovations of the US for £103m. 21-Dec-2001 Unilever is considering plans to launch a venture capital fund to develop new business initiatives not related to its core activities of food and personal care. 26-Nov-2001 Unilever is to sell its DiverseyLever commercial cleaning business to Johnson Wax Professional of the US for £1.1bn, in order to reduce debt following the acquisition of Bestfoods. 21-Nov-2001 Unilever has sold its London-based Myhome home cleaning service to Chores Group for undisclosed terms. 04-Oct-2001 Unilever is selling its North American seafood business to the US arm of Nippon Suisan for £125m, which will involve the transfer of about 750 staff. 20-Aug-2001 Unilever has put its Myhome home cleaning business up for sale, following a trial in south-west London. 20-Aug-2001 Unilever is planning to create a further 50 jobs at its new European IT infrastructure headquarters in Flintshire, taking the total workforce at the site to more than 500. 24-Jul-2001 Unilever is to shed up to 40 scientific jobs at its Wirral research headquarters, as part of the reorganisation of its personal care products group. 09-Jul-2001 Unilever is planning to raise about £100m from the sale of two edible oil refineries in Germany and the Netherlands. 28-Jun-2001 Unilever is looking to sell Unipath, its Bedford-based contraceptive subsidiary with 480 staff. 20-Jun-2001 Unilever is to shed up to 250 jobs at the former Bestfoods headquarters in Esher, Surrey, and the business will be relocated to its own Van Den Bergh premises in Crawley. 21-May-2001 Unilever is looking into the possibility of sharing its warehouses and other logistical systems with companies that are not direct competitors, in order to reduce supply chain costs. 18-May-2001 Campbell Soup has completed the acquisition of the Oxo and Batchelors brands from Unilever, which involves the transfer of 525 staff in Worksop and 311 in Ashford. 08-May-2001 Unilever is to shed 8,000 jobs worldwide following its acquisition of Bestfoods, and will announce plans for the closure of up to 30 factories later this year. 30-Apr-2001 Unilever is planning to open a national chain of Lynx barber shops, following a trial of two outlets in London. 27-Feb-2001 Unilever has agreed to sell its recently-acquired Bestfoods Baking business in the US to George Weston of Canada for £1bn. 20-Feb-2001 Unilever has acquired Go Organic, the small Scottish producer of organic pasta sauces and soups. 19-Feb-2001 Unilever has confirmed plans to sell a number of European dry soup and sauce brands to Campbell Soup of the US for £633m, in order to win approval for its acquisition of Bestfoods. 30-Jan-2001 Unilever is to shed 60 jobs at its DiverseyLever cleaning products distribution depot in South Normanton, Derbyshire, and there will also be cuts at depots in Bristol, Carlisle and Waltham Cross. 26-Jan-2001 Unilever is in negotiations to sell its US bakery business and a number of European brands, in order to raise up to £1.3bn and comply with the regulatory conditions for its recent acquisition of Bestfoods. 22-Jan-2001 Unilever is to relocate it safety research laboratory from Port Sunlight to Bedford next September, which will affect 60 jobs. 24-Nov-2000 Unilever is to locate a new IT centre at Ewloe in Wales, which will involve 200 new jobs and the transfer of 170 jobs from nearby Port Sunlight. 10-Nov-2000 Unilever has sold its Elizabeth Arden perfume and skincare business to FFI Fragrances of the US for £155m. 01-Nov-2000 Unilever has put the recently-acquired US bakery division of Bestfoods up for sale, which could raise up to $2bn. 17-Oct-2000 Unilever has agreed to sell a number of brands - including Oxo, Royco, Lesieur, Bla Bland, Batchelor's and McDonnells - in order to win European approval for its £14bn acquisition of Bestfoods of the US. 29-Sep-2000 Unilever is to stop manufacturing soap products at Port Sunlight with the loss of 125 jobs, in order to transfer production to factories abroad. 08-Sep-2000 Unilever is to open a Lynx barber shop on London's Oxford Street next month, and the concept could be expanded across the country if successful. 18-Aug-2000 Unilever is to reorganise its business into two global divisions, one for foods and the other for home and personal care, in order to improve decision-making and innovation. 07-Aug-2000 Unilever is to sell European Bakery Supplies Business to CSM of the Netherlands for £440m, and is now said be looking to sell the recently-acquired Bestfoods consumer bakery division. 12-Jul-2000 Unilever is planning to sell off its European and UK baking products business, and discussions are taking place with CSM of the Netherlands, Associated British Foods, and a number of private equity firms. 08-Jun-2000 Unilever is to acquire Bestfoods of the US for £13.4bn, creating the second largest global food business after Nestle. 07-Jun-2000 Unilever has launched a £11.3bn takeover bid for Bestfoods, but the approach was rejected by the US consumer foods company as being financially inadequate. 03-May-2000 Unilever is acquiring two US food companies for a total £1.63bn - dietary supplement manufacturer SlimFast Foods and ice cream producer Ben & Jerry's Homemade. 13-Apr-2000 Unilever is considering plans to sell off its European bakery division, having received a number of expressions of interest for the business. 27-Mar-2000 Unilever is looking to shed up to 185 of the 1,150 jobs at its Birds Eye Wall's ice cream factory in Gloucester over the next two years, as part of an ongoing efficiency programme. 15-Mar-2000 Unilever is launching a home cleaning service called Myhome, which has been tested in London and will be extended to other parts of the country next year. 14-Mar-2000 Unilever has acquired Cressida, the Honduras-based manufacturer of food and detergents, for about £200m. 03-Mar-2000 Unilever is planning to close 100 plants and cut 25,000 jobs in Europe and North America, as part of a restructuring programme designed to focus manufacturing on 150 key sites and save £1bn a year. 23-Feb-2000 Unilever is to scale down its Birds Eye Wall's next-day ice cream delivery service, following a report from the Competition Commission that is expected to lead to the capping of its market share. 21-Feb-2000 Unilever's DiverseyLever subsidiary is moving into a new £10m 200,000 sq ft high bay chemicals distribution centre at Junction 28 of the M1. 17-Feb-2000 Unilever is acquiring Rossell Industries, the Indian owner of seven tea gardens, in a £25m deal. 29-Dec-1999 Unilever has acquired Amora Maille, the French manufacturer of mustard and culinary products, for £460m. 25-Nov-1999 Unilever is to cut 260 of the 600 jobs at its Arkady Craigmiller bakery on Merseyside, in order to reduce costs. 20-Nov-1999 Unilever is selling its hard cheeses business, which includes the British Creameries factory at West Marton, to Yieldingtree for undisclosed terms. 01-Nov-1999 Unilever is to shed a further 1,200 brands from its food and personal care businesses, in order to focus on 400 core products. 22-Sep-1999 Unilever is selling Van Den Bergh Continental Bakeries, the Australian frozen pastries business, to Diageo's Pillsbury division for undisclosed terms. 11-Aug-1999 Unilever is planning to regain full control of its Chinese operations by setting up a single shareholding company to replace a series of joint ventures. 17-Jun-1999 Unilever has warned that 2,000 jobs could be at risk if the Competition Commission forces the company to dismantle its Walls' ice cream distribution business. 10-Jun-1999 Unilever's Birds Eye Wall's division may be forced to separate its ice cream distribution business following an inquiry by the Competition Commission into anti-competitive practices. 07-May-1999 Unilever's DiverseyLever subsidiary is to build a £10m cleaning products distribution centre in Derby, creating about 70 jobs, in order to replace a facility at Port Sunlight. 06-May-1999 Unilever is looking to dispose of more of its 1,800 brands in order to focus on leading brands that provide the greatest value. 05-May-1999 Unilever has won approval to launch the first cholesterol-reducing spread in the US, and hopes that approval from the European Commission will follow soon. 03-May-1999 Unilever, Nestle and Tesco have both announced plans to remove genetically modified ingredients from their products. 28-Apr-1999 Unilever is planning to launch a chain of sandwich and tea bars under the Cha name, starting with two trial outlets in Brighton. 14-Apr-1999 Unilever is said to be planning to set up a new research laboratory at its Port Sunlight site, with the creation of up to 100 new jobs. 08-Feb-1999 Unilever has won FDA approval for the US launch of a new spread that reduces cholesterol in the bloodstream. 27-Jan-1999 Unilever is to acquire Mountain Cream, the Chinese ice cream company, for undisclosed terms, as part of a long-term strategy to expand its Chinese food operations. 19-Jan-1999 Unilever has won Dutch regulatory approval for its Flora pro-activ cholesterol-reducing spread, and EU approval should follow after 60 days. 18-Dec-1998 Unilever is considering plans to set up an in-house operation to distribute Wall's ice cream, which would put an end to its links with the 27 distributors that are currently used. 23-Nov-1998 Unilever, Cadbury Schweppes and Kimberly Clark have formed a marketing consortium called Jigsaw that will mail a new magazine to 1m homes in order to increase loyalty to their brands. 05-Nov-1998 Unilever is to licence hair follicle research to Bristol-Myers Squibb of the US, and BMS will aim to develop a prescription compound to prevent hair loss. 07-Oct-1998 The director-general of Fair Trading is to seek undertakings from Unilever that its Birds Eye Walls division will supply all wholesalers on the same terms as its dedicated ice cream distributors, as a Monopolies & Mergers Commission report has found that its marketing practices are against the public interest. 30-Jul-1998 Unilever is acquiring Lao Cai, the Shanghai soy sauce brand, for about $10m, which will help to improve its understanding of Chinese consumers and of marketing and distributing foods in China. 21-Jul-1998 Unilever has sold Plant Breeding International Cambridge, the leading breeder of wheat, to Monsanto of the US for £320m. 16-Jul-1998 Unilever has acquired AmeriClean Systems, the US cleaning products group, in a deal thought to be worth up to £30m. 14-May-1998 Unilever Mexico has acquired the remaining 50% of Helados Holanda, the Mexican ice cream business, for undisclosed terms. 13-May-1998 BP is to invest £19m in the creation of a BP Institute at Cambridge University to undertake environmental and industrial research, while Unilever is to set up a £13m "cyber centre" at the university to develop drugs for the treatment of "superbugs". 25-Apr-1998 Unilever is looking to sell Plant Breeding International Cambridge, which could attract interest from a number of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. 24-Apr-1998 Unilever has acquired a controlling stake in Moskovsky Margarinovy Zavod, the Russian margarine and fats company, for undisclosed terms and will invest £12m in the company. 30-Mar-1998 Unilever's Van den Bergh division has confirmed that it is developing a vegetable oil spread that can cut cholesterol levels in the body by up to 10%. 17-Mar-1998 Unilever is to lodge an appeal against a European Commission ruling that prevents it from providing freezer cabinets to Irish shops, a move that could have widespread implications for the way ice cream products are sold across Europe. 12-Mar-1998 Unilever is selling its Robert Timms, Pablo and Faggs coffee businesses in Australasia to Freshfood Australia and New Zealand for undisclosed terms. 18-Feb-1998 Unilever is looking to sell off businesses with annual sales of up to £2bn this year, as part of its programme to dispose of poorly performing operations. 11-Feb-1998 The European Commission is to stop ice cream manufacturers from banning shops from storing rival brands in their freezer cabinets, following complaints made by Mars against Unilever. 27-Jan-1998 Unilever is acquiring the Vegetaline solid frying fat business from Eridania Beghin-Say, the Italian-French food company, and selling its Frial liquid seed-oil business in France to Lesieur Alimentaire, a subsidiary of Eridania Beghin-Say. 06-Jan-1998 Birds Eye Wall's, the Unilever ice-cream business, is to face another OFT enquiry into alleged discriminatory practices in the way it deals with wholesalers, following complaints from Mars Confectionery. 23-Dec-1997 Unilever is selling a US bakery business for $100m as part of its recently-announced disposals programme. 11-Nov-1997 Unilever is to speed up its pace of change by setting aside £800m to cover the cost of restructuring and the disposal of underperforming brands, with most of the rationalisation expected to be focused on Europe and North America. 08-Nov-1997 Unilever has acquired Kibon, the largest ice cream maker in Brazil, from Philip Morris for £570m, and will use the business as its ice cream "innovation centre" in Latin America. 21-Oct-1997 Unilever is looking to sell its coffee operations in Australia and New Zealand, but will retain the Bushells tea business as tea is one of its core products. 03-Oct-1997 Unilever is to merge three of its US personal care products companies, Chesebrough-Pond's, Helene Curtis and Lever Brothers, in order to provide cost savings. 26-Sep-1997 HJ Heinz has acquired John West Foods, the canned fish company, from Unilever. 01-Jul-1997 Unilever has sold Nordsee, the German and Austrian restaurants and fish wholesale business, to the Apax Partners venture capital fund for undisclosed terms, in order to focus on businesses that can be developed worldwide. 10-Jun-1997 ICI is acquiring Unilever's speciality chemicals division, which includes National Starch, Quest, Unichema and Crosfield, for £4.9bn, and is also discussing the sale of £3bn of its own industrial chemicals businesses including polyester, fertilisers, chlorine, explosives and pigments. 08-May-1997 Unilever is looking to sell its speciality chemicals business for about £5bn and will use the proceeds to expand its food and personal products business worldwide. 12-Feb-1997 Unilever has sold Unipath's microbiology business to Cinven, the venture capitalist, for undisclosed terms, and the Basingstoke-based business will be renamed Oxoid. 09-Jan-1997 Unilever has sold Sayama Tea Estates, the holding company for a Malawi tea estate, to Plantation & General Investments for £2.8m. 19-Dec-1996 Unilever has decided not to increase its offer for the remaining minority stake in Lyons Irish Holdings, the tea distributor. 23-Oct-1996 Unilever has sold its 25% stake in Kumasi Brewery of Ghana and its 15% stake in Nigerian Breweries to Heineken for undisclosed terms. 05-Oct-1996 Unilever is merging its Lipton tea and Van den Bergh food operations in the US, and the combined business will trade under the Lipton name. 01-Oct-1996 Unilever is said to be planning to dispose of weaker businesses which make up almost 20% of the group's turnover. 02-Sep-1996 Unilever Ireland has decided against increasing its offer for the remaining 25% of Lyons Irish Holdings, the tea and coffee concern. 22-Aug-1996 Unilever is offering to buy the remaining 25% of Lyons Irish Holdings, the tea company. 30-Jul-1996 Unilever has made a £15m stock write off in its UK frozen beef operation due to consumer concern over BSE. 03-May-1996 Unilever is to merge its two main Indian subsidiaries - Hindustan Lever and Brooke Bond Lipton India, creating India's biggest private sector company. 23-Apr-1996 Unilever has announced that it is to stop using North Sea fish for industrial purposes, a move intended to promote the reform of European fisheries policy and halt the decline in fish stocks. 22-Apr-1996 Louis Dreyfus, the French commodities concern, has bought Anderson Clayton, the Brazilian oil miller, from Unilever for undisclosed terms. 22-Mar-1996 Unilever has reorganised its senior management structure, with 14 business groups reporting to a seven-man executive committee, in order to separate business execution from strategic leadership. 14-Mar-1996 Unilever is selling Rimmel-Chicogo, its colour cosmetics business, to Joh A Benckiser of Germany. 07-Mar-1996 Unilever is forming a partnership with the World Wide Fund for Nature to develop a new standard for fish products from sustainable sources, in order to discourage fishing fleets from indiscriminate fishing. 22-Feb-1996 Unilever has made an agreed bid of $770m for Helene Curtis, the US personal products company. 15-Feb-1996 Unilever is acquiring Consorcio Agro Industrial de Malloa, the Chilean food manufacturing group that is the leading tomato paste producer, for £66m. 15-Feb-1996 Unilever is planning a £225m restructuring in Europe and North America which could lead to job cuts at its margarine operations in Purfleet and Crawley. 13-Feb-1996 Unilever has bought a 75% stake in Lyons Irish Holdings, the tea company, from Allied Domecq for £74m. 02-Feb-1996 Unilever has bought Diversey, the Canadian cleaning products concern, for £360m, which doubles Unilever's share of the world market. 24-Jan-1996 The OFT has confirmed it is investigating a complaint by Mars that Unilever is using unfair practices in the relationships between Wall's and ice cream distributors. 12-Jan-1996 Unilever expects to buy PCH Diagnostica from the OPG Group. 30-Nov-1995 Unilever is buying SC Johnson Wax's fabric conditioner businesses in Venezuela, Colombia and Argentina. 02-Sep-1995 Unilever is buying the Goodmark frozen food brand in Argentina from Frigorifico Rioplatense SAICIF. 02-Sep-1995
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