Unilever is a multi-national consumer goods company that produces food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. The company began in 1929 as a merger between a margarine producer and a soap maker and today boasts over 400 brands. Some of Unilever's most prominent brands are Knorr, Dove, Axe, and Lipton.
What is Unilever best known for?
Unilever's best-known brands include:
- Food: Ben & Jerry's; Bovril; Colman's; Cornetto; Flora; Hellmann's; I Can't Believe It's Not Butter; Knorr; Magnum; Marmite; Pot Noodle; Wall's.
- Drink: Lipton; Lyons tea; PG Tips;
- Household: Comfort; Domestos; Dove; Lynx; Persil; Radox; Sure; Surf; Timotei; Tresemme; Vaseline.
What products do Unilever make?
Unilever's leading brands include Marmite, PG Tips, Pot Noodle, St Ives, Vaseline, Lipton, Knorr, Ben & Jerry's, Brut, Magnum and Persil. The deal - if it was to eventually succeed - would be the biggest acquisition of a British company on record, based on offer value.
