British consumer goods giant Unilever has a wide portfolio of brands in food, personal care, home care and beauty, including Comfort, Marmite, Dove, Knorr, Hellman’s, Sunsilk, Vaseline, Cif and Lifebuoy. Alongside these four divisions, it also has a somewhat smaller ice cream segment, with market leaders Magnum, Ben & Jerry’s and Wall’s, although as of October 2024 it was in talks to sell these after coming under pressure from investors. Unilever’s split of food and non-food brands dates back to its founding companies, the Netherlands’ Margarine Unie and Britain’s Lever Brothers, which originally sold soap. After their merger in 1930, the combined Unilever retained its dual nationality, before choosing the U.K. for its single headquarters in 2020.
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