UL

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.unilever.com
Employees: 174,000
Employee growth: 0.0%

It takes two companies to make one Unilever. Along with Unilever N.V., Unilever PLC owns Unilever. The three companies comprise the Unilever Group. Based in England, Unilever PLC trades on the London and New York stock exchanges. Its products include food, personal care products, beverages, and consumer products. The company's portfolio holds popular brand names Breyers and Magnum (ice creams), Dove and Lux (soaps), Lipton (tea), Close Up (oral care), and Vaseline. Unilever was the #1 consumer products maker worldwide -- until Procter & Gamble (P&G) purchased Gillette in late 2005. Unilever sold its Unilever Cosmetics International unit to Coty for about $800 million.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $57,117.2M
One year growth: (3.4%)
Net income: $7,449.2M
Income growth: 22.4%

Officers:
Chairman: Michael Treschow
Group Chief Executive and Director: Paul Polman
CFO and Director: James A. (Jim) Lawrence

Competitors:
Kraft Foods
Nestlé
Procter & Gamble

Ul (lowercase-L) may refer to:

• Ul (mythology), a lunar deity in Vanuatuan mythology
• Ul (Portugal), a Portuguese freguesia in the Oliveira de Azemeis municipality
• 3271 Ul, an asteroid

UL may also refer to:

• Underwriters Laboratories, U.S. privately held, for-profit product safety testing and certification organization
• Union Leader, statewide daily newspaper in New Hampshire.
• Unilever, a multinational corporation. UL is a stock symbol for Unilever
• University Library, a library at numerous universities; in particular, Cambridge University Library
• ul, an HTML element for creating unordered lists
• µL, (properly written with the Greek letter mu) the standard abbreviation for the microliter, one millionth of a liter (SI unit of volume)
• UL (The Belgariad), one of the gods in David Eddings' fantasy saga The Belgariad
• Unlimited liability
• Uplink, in telecommunication
• Upload, the transfer of electronic data
• SriLankan Airlines, via its IATA code
• Unwritten Law, an alternative rock band from Poway, California
• Ultralight aviation
• Ultralight, as in UL-XGA laptop computer screens

In education:

• Université Laval, Québec, Canada
• University of Leoben, Austria
• University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
• University of Liberia, Monrovia
• University of Limerick, Ireland
• University of Lima, Perú
• University of Linz, Austria
• University of Lisbon, Portugal
• University of Limpopo, South Africa
• University of Lincoln, UK
• University of Ljubljana, Universitas Labacensis, Slovenia
• University of London, UK
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette
• University of Louisiana at Monroe
• University of Louisville, Kentucky

See also

• Ull (disambiguation)

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