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Unilever plc
Unilever N.V.

Unilever N.V. head office building in Rotterdam
Type	Dual-listed Public limited company Naamloze vennootschap
Traded as	:  Euronext: UNA : UN, UL FTSE 100 Component :
Industry	Consumer goods
Predecessor	Lever Brothers Margarine Unie
Founded	1930; 88 years ago (1930) (by merger)
Founders	William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme James Darcy Lever Samuel van den Bergh Georg Schicht Singrose
Headquarters	Unilever House, London, UK Rotterdam, Netherlands
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Marijn Dekkers (Chairman) Paul Polman (CEO)
Products	Foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products
Revenue	€53.715 billion (2017)
Operating income	€8.857 billion (2017)
Net income	€6.486 billion (2017)
Total assets	€60.285 billion (2017)
Total equity	€14.387 billion (2017)
Number of employees	169,000 (2017)
Website	www.unilever.com

Unilever (/ˈjuːnɪˌliːvər/) is a British-Dutch transnational consumer goods company co-headquartered in London, United Kingdom and Rotterdam, Netherlands. Its products include food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. It is the world's largest consumer goods company measured by 2012 revenue, and is also the world's largest producer of food spreads, such as margarine. It is Europe’s seventh most valuable company. Unilever is one of the oldest multinational companies; its products are available in around 190 countries.

Unilever owns over 400 brands, with a turnover in 2016 of over 50 billion euros, and thirteen brands with sales of over one billion euros:Axe/Lynx, Dove, Omo, Becel/Flora, Heartbrand ice creams, Hellmann's, Knorr, Lipton, Lux, Magnum, Rama, Rexona/Degree, Sunsilk and Surf. It is a dual-listed company consisting of Unilever plc, based in London and Unilever N.V., based in Rotterdam but the company made their global headquarters in Rotterdam. 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 Personal Care. It has research and development facilities in the United Kingdom (two), the Netherlands, China, India and the United States.