Unilever used to be described by breadth: hundreds of brands across food, refreshment and household goods. Since 2024 it has gone the other way, demerging Ice Cream in 2025, agreeing to combine most of its Foods business with McCormick in 2026, and putting more capital behind personal care, beauty and wellbeing. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Unilever makes money by manufacturing and selling branded, repeat-purchase consumer products through supermarkets, convenience stores, pharmacies, small independent shops and e-commerce. After the 2025 Ice Cream demerger it reports four business groups: Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care and Foods. Its Power Brands, such as Dove, Vaseline, Rexona, Sunsilk, OMO and Knorr, made up 78% of turnover in 2025. Emerging markets like India (through Hindustan Unilever), Indonesia and Brazil are a large part of sales, where low-priced formats such as sachets help reach lower-income shoppers. Margin comes from brand pricing power, gross-margin improvements and marketing scale; Unilever spent 16.1% of turnover on brand and marketing investment in H1 2026. The pending McCormick transaction would leave Unilever focused mainly on beauty, personal care, wellbeing and home care.