In the beginning, margarine was the foundation of Unilever. The company started in 1929 as a merger between Dutch margarine maker Margarine Unie and British soapmaker Lever Brothers.

A substituição do chefe da unidade de margarina da Unilever PLC, nesta semana, levanta dúvidas sobre o futuro da área na segunda maior empresa do setor de consumo no mundo.

U.S. private equity giant KKR & Co. agreed Friday to acquire Unilever PLC's margarine and spreads business in a deal that values the unit at EUR6.83 billion ($8.03 billion), making it one of the ...

Unilever was formed in 1930 when the Dutch margarine company Margarine Unie (which had itself been created through a series of mergers in the 1920s) merged with the U.K.’s Lever Brothers Ltd ...

Margarine consumption is slipping: today the average American consumes just 1.6kg ... one of the original two firms that merged to form the Anglo-Dutch giant in 1929 was Margarine Unie.

The current structure—essentially a combination of a British and a Dutch operating firm, each with their own shares—has been in place since Lever Bros., an English soap maker, and Margarine ...