An arrogant rascal, he has fired clients, including Unilever, when marketing executives disagreed with him.
Want Want competes in China with the likes of Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Unilever and Wahaha.
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In Indonesia, one-third of Unilever's revenue comes from purchases costing 20 US cents or less.
For Unilever, India has been one of the best performers among its emerging markets units.
Is it feasible for businesses to promote social progress as strongly as, say, Unilever promotes handwashing?
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The firm took the name JohnsonDiversey when it acquired DiverseyLever, a unit of Unilever, in 2002.
Still, relatively small changes can transform a product and help open new markets for Unilever.
The acquisition helps Unilever gain market share in a significant market such as Europe.
Later, at the request of the Dutch medical community, Unilever began looking for alternatives to butter.
Unilever's answer to this is its new "Vitality" campaign, introduced to investors in June.
Unilever operates a variety of product lines across the grocery and personal care business.
Hindustan Lever's five-year annual return on equity of 46% puts it well ahead of Unilever's 35%.
Dove and Unilever initially received commendations for the efforts to build the self-esteem of women.
Unilever, he says, has to do more than merely focus on a streamlined bunch of brands.
Hardly, he retorts: a decade ago, Unilever had a huge computer network for sharing internal information.
What he found at giant Unilever ( p. 20) is a more hopeful story.
In Monday trading, Unilever Plc shares are currently off about 0.8% on the day.
Hormel Foods, which also owns Wholly Guacamole, bought the brand from Anglo-Dutch food giant Unilever.
Unilever and Danone offer potential for gains because they are trading at lower multiples.
Henkel and Unilever already sell similar highly condensed liquid-filled laundry tablets in Western Europe.
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Nearly half of U.S. men don't use face wash or a moisturizer, according to Unilever research.
It is already investigating Unilever for giving freezers to retailers who sell only its ice-cream.
Unilever's portfolio of 1, 600 brands is expensive to market and has few big winners.
BEW, a subsidiary of Unilever, has the ear of No 10 through its chairman, Niall Fitzgerald.
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Rabarba has been serving major brands such as Unilever, Turkcell, Peps, and Turkish Airlines.
He left Unilever PLC to become chief human resources officer of LG Electronics in 2008.
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Unilever, a consumer-goods firm, wants 55% of its senior managers to be women by 2015.
But even Unilever was not keen to commit to it from the get go.
From 1999 to 2003 organic growth (ie, excluding acquisitions) was 5.1%, compared with Unilever's 2.7%.
So companies like Coca-Cola, Heineken and Unilever are integrating water and climate variables into their strategic planning.
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