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Unilever Annual Report and Accounts 2010 3
Report of the Directors About Unilever
Well positioned for growth
The Unilever Group
Unilever N.V. (NV) is a public limited
company registered in the Netherlands.
Ithas listings of shares and depositary
receipts for shares on Euronext Amsterdam
and on the New York Stock Exchange.
Unilever PLC (PLC) is a public limited
company registered in England and Wales.
It has shares listed on the London Stock
Exchange and, as American Depositary
Receipts, on the New York Stock Exchange.
The two parent companies, NV and PLC,
together with their group companies,
operate as a single economic entity (the
Unilever Group, also referred to asUnilever
or the Group). NV and PLC andtheir group
companies constitute asingle reporting
entity for the purposes of presenting
consolidated financial statements.
Accordingly, the accounts of the Unilever
Group are presented by both NV and PLC
as their respective consolidated financial
statements. The same people sit on the
Boards of the two parent companies. Any
references tothe Board in this document
mean theBoards of NV and PLC.
2bn
consumers worldwide
use a Unilever product
onanygiven day
Consumers buy
170bn
Unilever packs around
theworld every year
Over
167,000
employees at the end
of2010
Products sold in more than
180
countries
More than
50yrs
experience in Brazil,
China,India and
Indonesia