Ghana was chosen as the home for Clean Team because Unilever has a significant presence there and WSUP was already operating in Kumasi, the second city of Ghana.

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One of the early takers was Unilever Kenya, a leading manufacturing company that makes, among other things, food and home products.

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The web co-working clause will see AOL, which in America Online has the world's biggest internet service provider, swap research with Unilever's New Jersey laboratories, which are developing next generation mobile and in-home technology.

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