Unilever 2000 Annual Report Download - page 112

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Unilever Annual Report & Accounts and Form 20-F 2000 Financial Statements
Further statutory information and other information
Unilever PLC
Capital and membership
At 31 December 2000 PLC had 110 639 ordinary shareholdings.
The follow ing table analyses the registered holdings of PLC’s 1.4p ordinary shares at 31 December 2000
Number Total
Number of shares of holdings % shares held %
1 – 1 000 39 039 35.28 21 406 503 0.74
1 001 – 2 500 32 310 29.20 53 385 005 1.83
2 501 – 5 000 19 025 17.20 67 883 493 2.33
5 001 – 10 000 11 451 10.35 80 349 914 2.76
10 001 – 25 000 5 909 5.34 88 933 336 3.06
25 001 – 50 000 1 275 1.15 43 933 572 1.51
50 001 – 100 000 581 0.53 41 142 046 1.41
100 001 – 1 000 000 750 0.68 241 767 973 8.30
Over 1 000 000 299 0.27 2 272 656 738 78.06
110 639 100.00 2 911 458 580 100.00
Substantial interests in the share capital of PLC
The Register maintained by PLC pursuant to Section 211 of the Companies Act 1985 shows that at the date of signing the Report and
Accounts 156 815 034 ordinary shares in PLC, representing 5.39% of the issued ordinary capital, were held jointly by Sir M ichael Angus,
Sir M ichael Perry, N W A FitzGerald, Dr J I W Anderson and Dr A S Ganguly as trustees of the Leverhulme Trust and the Leverhulme Trade
Charities Trust.
The Register also shows the follow ing interests in PLC’s Ordinary and Deferred capital on that date:
Approximate
Holder Class % held
N.V. Elma Deferred 50
United Holdings Limited Deferred 50
Brandes Investment Partners L.P. Ordinary 7
The Capital Group Companies, Inc. Ordinary 3
Directors’ interests
The Register of Directors’ Interests in the share capital of PLC and its subsidiaries, w hich contains full details of the directors’ PLC
shareholdings and options, is open to inspection by shareholders and w ill be open for inspection at the Annual General Meeting.
Employee involvement and communication
Unilever’s companies maintain formal processes to inform, consult and involve employees and their representatives. M ost of the United
Kingdom sites are accredited to the Investors in People standard. The European Foundation for Quality Management’s model for measuring
Business Excellence, w ith its strong emphasis on maximising the potential of employees, is also widely employed.
A European Works Council, embracing employee and management representatives from 15 countries of Western Europe, has been
in existence for four years and provides a forum for discussing issues that extend across national boundaries.
The directors’ report of the United Kingdom group companies contain more details about how they have communicated with their
employees during 2000.
Equal opportunities and diversity
Every Unilever company in the United Kingdom has an equal opportunities policy and actively pursues equality of opportunity for all
employees.
During 2000, w ork has taken place on benchmarking the performance of the United Kingdom operating companies with regard to diversity
achievements. An on-line open advertising system was implemented for management vacancies, allowing any employee an opportunity to
register an interest in an advertised vacancy. A further stage of diversity awareness training w as piloted, w ith a view to a rollout during 2001.
Charitable and other contributions
During the year group companies made a total contribution to the community of £7.6 million, in accordance w ith the London
Benchmarking Group Model, and £7.2 million w as donated to the Centre for M olecular Sciences Informatics at Cambridge University.
In addition, £70 000 was given to Britain in Europe. No contribution was made for political purposes.