Unilever is a British company, one of the world market leaders in food and household products (including perfumes). It is headquartered in London, UK.
Founded in 1929 as a result of a merger between Margarine Unie, a Dutch margarine manufacturer, and Lever Brothers, a British soap industry pioneer, in order to economise on scale: both manufacturers imported palm oil en masse. At the end of the 20th century up until the merger between Procter & Gamble and Gillette in 2005, it was the world's largest consumer products manufacturer, second-largest in terms of sales as of 2020.
Employed 155,000 people (2019), capitalised at the beginning of 2020 at $107bn, revenues (2019) at €52bn, profits (2019) at €6bn. Chairman Niels Andersen, CEO Alan Jope.
In 2021, the company changed its Dutch jurisdiction to the UK.