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10 unusual facts about Unilever


Colworth Medal

The award was established by Professors Tony James FRS (Unilever Research) and Henry Arnstein (Biochemical Society).

Ewloe

HSBC Bank along with many other firms including Unilever can be found in Ewloe, who now occupy what used to be the old Alyn and Deeside District Council Office.

Francesco Rinaldi

The Canistano Family, who created Ragú in 1953, sold in 1970 (the Ragu Company would later become part of Unilever), and later on, founded Cantisano Foods.

Free-range eggs

U.S. food suppliers Aramark and Unilever have announced they intend to buy only cage-free eggs, but as of 2013 there are not enough available to supply them.

Gerald Gidwitz

Gidwitz served as chairman of the company from 1952 to 1996, when it was bought by Unilever.

Great Clips / Grit Chips 300

On October 26, 2008 it was announced that Unilever's deodorant brand Degree will take over sponsorship of this race starting in 2009.

JR Motorsports

Aric Almirola drove the car full-time in 2011 as a part of a 2 year deal with sponsorship from Unilever and ended up fourth in points in his first full time season.

Makuha Ka sa Tikim

'Makuha Ka Sa Tikim' (Be Taken With The Taste) is a cooking-reality TV program of ABS-CBN in partnership with Knorr, a cooking product of Unilever Philippines.

Ocean pout

In June 2006 the Unilever company announced that it would use genetically modified yeast to grow antifreeze proteins based on a gene from the ocean pout, and use it to improve the consistency and storage properties of its ice cream brands.

Wild Young Hearts

"Wild Young Hearts" is currently used in commercials for Unilever's Simple brand of skin cosmetics.


Antonius Johannes Jurgens

Although initially in fierce competition with another manufacturer from Oss in the Netherlands, Samuel van den Bergh, both competitors joined up in 1927 to form the Margarine Unie, which would merge in 1930 with William Hulme Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme of Lever Brothers to form Unilever.

Antony Burgmans

Burgmans joined Unilever in 1972, working as marketing assistant at Lever, the Netherlands on the dishwater detergent Sun.

Attensity

Corporations that use or have used Attensity software include Airbus, Charles Schwab, Citigroup, HP, JetBlue, Lloyds Banking Group, Safeway, Siemens, StubHub, TiVo, Travelocity, Unilever, Walgreens, Wells Fargo and Whirlpool.

Automatic identification and data capture

The global association Auto-ID Center was founded in 1999 and is made up of 100 of the largest companies in the world such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, UPS, companies working in the sector of technology such as SAP, Aliens, Sun as well as five academic research centers.

Civac

Civac is considered the most important economic development center of the State of Morelos and it accommodates a considerably amount of national and international enterprises such as Roche (formerly Syntex), Unilever, NEC, Baxter International, Alucaps, Givaudan, GlaxoSmithKline, Fibrolub Mexicana, Mycom Mayekawa, along with other 150 companies.

Cob Stenham

Anthony William Paul Stenham, born 28 January 1932, and named "Cob" after Richard Cobden, was a director of Unilever for sixteen years, the chairman of Ajro Wiggins Appleton from 1991 and on the board and latterly chairman of Telewest, for twelve years from 1994 to 2006.

Colin Falkland Gray

Gray returned to New Zealand to work for Unilever in Petone as its personnel director until 1979, at which time he retired.

Colworth House

Colworth House has also given its name to the Colworth Medal, established by the late Professor Tony James of Unilever Research and Professor Henry Arnstein of the Biochemical Society in 1963.

EABIS

EABIS was launched in 2002 by five founding companies – IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Shell and Unilever – and a number of Europe’s leading business schools at INSEAD with the support of the European Commission.

Economy of Bács-Kiskun

Among the industrial companies operating in the area of Baja are UNILEVER Rt. producing deep frozen products, the Bread factory of Bácska Sütoipari Rt., the abattoir of DÉLHÚS and the Pannonia Brewery.

Fátima, Buenos Aires

This industrial park is home to some of the largest companies in the world such as Bayer, Unilever, Johnson Matthey, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Lola & Mora and Woodbridge.

Felix Velarde

With Lowe, Velarde launched specialist Interactive Television agency Head End (possibly a pun on the television broadcast term HeadEnd) also in 1988, which produced the first Interactive Television commercials for Tesco and Unilever.

Fowokan

Examples of Kelly's work are held in many public and private art collections, including that of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, Unilever and the National Portrait Gallery London.

Fundación Impulsar

It was founded in 1999 in Salta in the north west of Argentina, when seven British businesses working in Argentina (including Unilever, British Gas, and Rio Tinto Borax), inspired by the work of the Princes Trust, agreed to fund a similar initiative.

Geoffrey Handley

He has conducted high intensity executive workshops with corporate clients across the USA and South East Asia, including P&G, GOME, Haier, Samsung, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Nokia, Toyota and Motorola.

George Bradt

He served as an executive in sales, marketing, and general management around the world at Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, and J.D. Power and Associates as chief executive of its Power Information Network spinoff.

Helene Curtis Industries, Inc.

The firm did not have the resources to compete on an international scale with the likes of Procter & Gamble and Unilever.

J. Lyons and Co., Greenford

Sold under the Lyons Maid brand, the factory was continually expanded as the company battled Unilever's Wall's Ice Cream brand.

Laurel J. Richie

In 1984, she moved to Ogilvy & Mather, where she spent more than two decades building brands for blue chip clients including American Express, Pepperidge Farm and Unilever, among others.

Lerma, State of Mexico

Businesses here produce processed foods, textiles, metals, automobiles and chemical products, by companies suich as Avcomex, Diconsa, Bayer, Barcel and Unilever.

Merlien Institute Market Research Conferences

These conferences feature speakers from multinational companies such as Walmart, Hewlett-Packard, Citigroup, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Pepsico, Google, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Nestle, Huawei, international think tanks and research agencies.

Michael Maron

In addition to speaking at medical symposiums and his appearances on the lecture circuit, he has served as spokesperson and consultant for Fortune 500 companies, including Clairol, Matrix Essentials, Shaklee Corporation, Unilever, and the Miss Universe Organization.

Pot Noodle

Golden Wonder was then sold to Tayto in 2006, with Unilever retaining the Pot Noodle brand.

Prahova County

Some of the biggest international corporations like Coca-Cola, Unilever, InBev, Johnson Controls, Cameron, Weatherford, Michelin, Timken and others have invested heavily in the recent years.

Sidney van den Bergh

Born in the Netherlands, son of businessman and politician Sidney James van den Bergh and grandson of Unilever co-founder Samuel van den Bergh, he showed an interest in science from an early age, learning to read with books on astronomy.

Suffolk, Virginia

Other large employers in the City of Suffolk include Unilever, Lipton Tea, Wal-Mart, Target, QVC, and two major modeling and simulation companies, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.

Tata Global Beverages

At the time, Tetley was the world's second largest tea company after Unilever's Brooke Bond-Lipton and had an annual turnover of £300 million.

Tick Yes

Tick Yes clients have included Alcon, Aristocrat, Bayer Animal Health, Bayer Consumer Care, Eli Lilly and Company, Galderma, Janssen-Cilag, Schwarzkopf Landcom, Merck Sharp & Dohme Australia and Unilever.

U.S. Route 9W

US 9W exits the right-of-way, turning north onto Lemoine Avenue, later Sylvan Avenue, in Englewood Cliffs, where it passes the headquarters of Ferrari of North America, Unilever, and CNBC.

Unilever Bangladesh Limited

Unilever Bangladesh Limited started its journey in Bangladesh with the production of soaps in its factory in Kalurghat, Chittagong.

Wells Enterprises

Wells is the third largest ice cream maker in the United States, with five percent market share behind Nestlé (Häagen-Dazs, Dreyer's, Mövenpick) and Unilever (Ben & Jerry's and Breyers Ice Cream).

West Thurrock

Industry along the Thames includes a Unilever chilled distribution centre for all its chilled food products including Flora, Bertolli, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Stork, Peperami and AdeZ.