Unilever

About

Unilever PLC is the British multinational consumer goods company headquartered in London, formed in 1930 by the merger of the Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie with the British soap maker Lever Brothers; its baby food, beauty, cleaning, healthcare and hygiene products are sold in more than 190 countries and the group is organised into Beauty and Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care and Nutrition.^[1] It bought Lipton in 1971 and Brooke Bond in 1984 and divested most of its tea brands in 2021.^[1] Companies House records UNILEVER PLC as an active public limited company, number 00041424, incorporated on 21 June 1894, with its registered office at Port Sunlight, Wirral.^[2] Unilever remains a co-owner of the Pepsi Lipton ready-to-drink tea joint venture with PepsiCo.^[3]

Referenced by

• Brand owner at point of sale for Domestos Extended Power Citrus Fresh 750 ml sourced
  Wikipedia names Unilever as maker of Domestos; the Unilever logo is printed on the back label.
• Brand owner at point of sale for Dove Invisible Dry Anti-Perspirant Spray 150 ml sourced
  Dove is a Unilever personal care brand per Wikipedia.
• Brand owner at point of sale for Dove Nourishing Silk Moisturising Hand Wash 250 ml sourced
  Wikipedia names Unilever as owner of the Dove brand; no company name is legible on the photographed front labels.
• Brand owner at point of sale for Dove Summer Glow Gradual Self Tan Body Lotion Fair to Medium 250 ml sourced
  Wikipedia names Unilever as owner of the Dove personal care brand
• Brand owner at point of sale for Lipton Tchaé Thé Vert Orient 43.75 g until 2022 sourced
  Unilever logo printed on the can; Wikipedia says Unilever sold the Lipton tea business to CVC Capital Partners in 2022
• Brand owner at point of sale for Simple Kind to Skin Exfoliating Wipes 25 wipes since 2010 sourced
  Wikipedia: Simple has been owned by Unilever since 2010, through its purchase of Alberto-Culver; the brand was formally taken over about six months later.
• Brand owner at point of sale for Vaseline Lip Therapy with Aloe Vera 20 g sourced
  Wikipedia names Unilever as owner of the Vaseline brand; no company name was legible on the photographed pack surfaces.
• Inferred: Registered GS1 prefix used by Dove Invisible Dry Anti-Perspirant Spray 150 ml derived
  Prefix 871 is issued by GS1 Netherlands; no company stub states this prefix and no source names the registrant. Target is the Dove brand owner per ^wikidove; the licensee is more likely a Dutch Unilever group company that no source found names.
• Inferred: Registered GS1 prefix used by Dove Summer Glow Gradual Self Tan Body Lotion Fair to Medium 250 ml derived
  Prefix 8717163 (GS1 Netherlands); no company stub states it and no source names the registrant; target is the brand owner per ^wiki-dove. A Dutch Unilever entity is plausible but unsourced
• Inferred: Registered GS1 prefix used by Simple Kind to Skin Exfoliating Wipes 25 wipes derived
  Prefix 5011451; nothing names the registrant. Target is the brand owner per ^wiki. The barcode was already in use in 2007 (^bp2007), before Unilever owned Simple, so the prefix was probably first licensed by Accantia.
• Owns Domestos since 1961 sourced
  Acquired by Lever Brothers in 1961; Wikipedia names Unilever as the maker.
• Owns Dove sourced
• Owns Pepsi Lipton International since 2003 sourced
  50 % per Vikipedi.
• Owns Pepsi/Lipton Tea Partnership since 1991 sourced
  The other parent of the same joint venture; still in place in August 2026 per the trade report cited in About.
• Owns Sealtest since 1993 verified
  Registered trademark of Unilever PLC per the Canadian licensee's site; acquired from Kraft in 1993 per ^wikisealtest.
• Owns Simple since 2010 sourced
  Unilever bought Alberto-Culver in September 2010 and formally took over Simple about six months later.
• Owns Vaseline since 1987 sourced
  Unilever bought Chesebrough-Pond's, maker of Vaseline, in 1987.

Also known as

• Unilever PLC en

References

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Unilever Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-12. CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia contributors.
2. ↑ Companies House: UNILEVER PLC, company number 00041424 Companies House. registry. Accessed 2026-09-12. Record: 00041424. Open Government Licence v3.0.
3. ↑ FoodNavigator: Lipton Ice Tea to remain co-owned by Unilever FoodNavigator (William Reed). publication. Published 2026-08-20. Accessed 2026-09-12.