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39
Unilever Annual Report & Accounts and Form 20-F 2000 Report of the Directors
Remuneration Report
Directors’ interests: share capital
The interest in the share capitals of NV and PLC and their group companies of those who were directors at the end of 2000 and of their
families w ere as show n in the tables below:
1 January 31 December
NV (Fl. 1.12 ordinary shares)
A Burgmans 6 920 13 966
N W A FitzGerald 6 175 7 919
R D Brown ——
A C Butler 625 1 587
P J Cescau — 842
K B Dadiseth —(a) —
A R van Heemstra —(a) 1 176
A Kemner 1 454 1 454
R H P M arkham 582 26 638
C B Strauss 1 233(a) 3 371
NV (Fl. 0.10 preference shares)
A Burgmans 7 750 7 750
A Kemner 1 628 1 628
PLC (1.4p ordinary shares)
N W A FitzGerald 40 357 58 165
156 815 034(b) 156 815 034(b)
A Burgmans 20 627 28 921
R D Brown ——
A C Butler 27 243 34 847
P J Cescau — 6 654
K B Dadiseth —(a) —
A R van Heemstra —(a) 8 834
A Kemner 18 605 25 045
R H P M arkham 43 246 50 136
C B Strauss —(a) 15 832(c)
Hindustan Lever Limited (ordinary shares)
K B Dadiseth 107 490(a) 107 490
Margarine Union (1930) Limited (shares)
N W A FitzGerald 600(b) 600(b)
(a) Upon election on 3 M ay 2000.
(b) Held jointly as a trustee of the Leverhulme Trust and the Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust w ith no beneficial interest. The holding of
156 815 034 PLC ordinary shares represents 5.39% of the ordinary issued share capital of PLC.
(c) Held as American Depositary Receipts (ADR’s).
The directors, in common w ith other employees of PLC and its United Kingdom subsidiaries, had beneficial interests in 42 492 210 PLC
ordinary shares at 1 January 2000 and 40 194 092 PLC ordinary shares at 31 December 2000, acquired by the Unilever Employee Share
Trusts for the purpose of satisfying options under the PLC Executive Option plans and the UK Employee Sharesave Plan. On election of
K B Dadiseth, A R baron van Heemstra and C B Strauss as directors on 3 M ay 2000 the trusts held 41 969 815 PLC ordinary shares.
The voting rights of the directors w ho hold interests in the share capitals of NV and PLC are the same as for other holders of the class of
shares indicated. Except as stated above, none of the director’s shareholdings amounts to more than 0.01% of the issued shares in that
class of share.
Further information, including details of the NV and PLC ordinary shares acquired by certain group companies in connection w ith other
share option plans, is given in note 21 on page 65.
The only changes in the interests of the directors and their families in PLC ordinary shares between 31 December 2000 and 28 February
2001 were that:
(i) The holding of the Unilever Employee Share Trusts reduced to 39 889 498 PLC shares.
(ii) N W A FitzGerald acquired 12 PLC shares.
There were no changes in the interests of the directors and of their families in NV ordinary shares during that period.