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Case Study Unilever

This case study chronicles Unilever efforts at restructuring, divesting, acquisition, and general streamlining of its worldwide operations. These operations, in 2000, encompassed 1,600 brands in 88 countries. These products are mostly food, personal care, and household products. Around that same year, Co-chairmen Niall FitzGerald and Antony Burgmans decided that Unilever needed to make some rather drastic changes in order to remain competitive. More importantly that competitiveness was the importance that the company maintained ever increasing profitability. The co-chairs planned to bring about this much needed change via institution of an ambitious 5 year plan. This plan was dubbed the “path to growth” strategy.

This 5 year plan would have many focuses aimed at making Unilever more profitable. The key strategies to be implemented were:
• Reduce portfolio from 1600 to 400 core brands by 2004. This would allow the concentration of assets in marketing, production and......


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