Unilever

Consumer Packaged Goods

VAULT RANKINGS 2010

#27 Vault Consumer Products 50

GENERAL INFO

Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
100 offices
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THE BUZZ…

Trying to be P&G
Not a P&G
Good sales system
Large product offering, impersonal, acceptable quality

NEWS AND UPDATES

Vault's Scoop

Uppers

Product discounts
Worldwide name recognition

Downers

Corporate reorganization and downsizing
Environmentally destructive subsidiaries
Large size can make company seem impersonal

ABOUT THIS COMPANY:

Behind the brand

If you've ever eaten Ben & Jerry's ice cream or used Dove soap, you've sampled a product of Unilever, the world’s third-largest consumer goods company in the world Unilever's portfolio has around 400 food, home and personal care brands, while around 160 million people around the world buy these brands each day. In the United Kingdom, nine out of 10 homes have at least one of Unilever's products in the bathroom or kitchen. The company is parented jointly by Britain's Unilever plc and the Netherlands' Unilever N.V. Both share the same board and executives but have separate stocks which trade in New York, Amsterdam and London.

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REVIEWS

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SALARIES

Unilever salary & compensation reviews include all signing and year-end bonuses, vacation time and other perks and reimbursements that make up total compensation.

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SURVEY SAYS

Take your career wherever Unilever is

One insider in the United Kingdom says that the firm has a "good, convivial working culture" and that there's "a great deal of diversity in both cultural and professional backgrounds." Another contact says, "Unilever being a big company, it is very interesting to work here, as you have the opportunity to learn a lot about the business," adding that "[i]t is also possible to move between departments within the company."

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DISCUSSIONS

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Unilever Perspective

Your Career at Unilever

The Unilever Future Leaders Programme is about developing tomorrow’s leaders, today. It’s designed to grow you into a manager, through hands-on learning alongside world-class experts. You’ll be hired into a function and develop your leadership skills by working on live projects which offer you all the experience you need to become ready for your first management role.

Tips from the inside

Unite with Unilever

Unilever hosts dozens of career-related pages. Other pages elaborate on what kind of people Unilever is looking for (qualified, with leadership skills, with passion and the usual) and what it's like to work for the company. Several informative pages on nine potential careers at the company, including marketing, supply chain management, research and development, communications and customer development are also worth a look. Once you've gone through the company's exhaustive explanation of what it's like to work there, you have to go to the careers site of your particular country or the one in which you want to work.

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Company Initiatives

Corporate Diversity Programs

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