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Organic chemists, physical chemists and physicists worked there. In the 1960s the site was run by Unilever Research. In 1964, newly-employed scientists would be earning £1,450. New buildings in the mid-1960s meant more staff. In early 1963, 40 scientists working on margarine and edible oils, moved to the company's new site at Welwyn in ...
Unilever Leeds, in the north-east of Leeds off the A6120 Leeds Outer Ring Road, is a large cosmetics factory and research site of the Anglo-Dutch company Unilever that makes all of its deodorant products for the UK. It is the largest deodorants factory in Europe. [1] The factory supplies the whole of Europe.
On 14 February 1945, a neighbouring Unilever factory was set up as a V-1 launching site, with another site at Ypenburg, on the coast. The site was consequently attacked by RAF Typhoon aircraft on 23 March 1945. [3] These were some of the last V-1 missiles launched against England. The neighbouring factory closed in 2008.
Unilever PLC is a British multinational fast-moving consumer goods company founded on 2 September 1929 following the merger of British soap maker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie.
Unilever is the world's largest manufacturer of ice cream, and also has large manufacturing sites in Hellendoorn in the Netherlands, Saint-Dizier in France and Caivano in Italy. Nestle and Unilever have about a third of the global production each. [10] The site was built to supply 25 million people in the west and north of England, and Wales.
Nature Delivered Limited, [1] trading as Graze (stylised as graze), is a United Kingdom-based snack company which is owned by Unilever. [3] Graze offers over 200 snack combinations [5] through snack subscription boxes, an online shop [6] and retailers. The company distributes thousands of snack boxes per day across the UK. [7]
Port Sunlight is a model village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England.It is located between Lower Bebington and New Ferry, on the Wirral Peninsula.Port Sunlight was built by Lever Brothers to accommodate workers in its soap factory (now part of Unilever); work commenced in 1888.
In September 1929, Unilever was formed by a merger of the operations of Dutch Margarine Unie and British soapmaker Lever Brothers, named as a blend of the two firms' names. [1] By 1930, it employed 250,000 people and in terms of market value, was the largest company in Britain. [7] Unilever was the first modern multinational company. [7]