Unilever PLC
Company 00041424 Active
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How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
10 directors on the board
- Ian Keith Meakins Director · appointed 2023
- Susan Saltzbart Kilsby Director · appointed 2019
- Nelson Peltz Director · appointed 2022
- Adrian Hennah Director · appointed 2021
- Judith Mckenna Director · appointed 2024
- Zoe Yujnovich Director · appointed 2025
- Rong Lu Director · appointed 2021
- Srinivas Phatak Director · appointed 2025
- Benoit Thierry Potier Director · appointed 2025
- Fernando Fernandez Director · appointed 2024
Directors past 6 years
- Susan Saltzbart Kilsby Director · appointed 2019
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (4)
- Nelson Peltz Director · appointed 2022
- Rong Lu Director · appointed 2021
- Benoit Thierry Potier Director · appointed 2025
- Fernando Fernandez Director · appointed 2024
Portfolio (6)
- Ian Keith Meakins Director · appointed 2023
- Susan Saltzbart Kilsby Director · appointed 2019
- Adrian Hennah Director · appointed 2021
- Judith Mckenna Director · appointed 2024
- Zoe Yujnovich Director · appointed 2025
- Srinivas Phatak Director · appointed 2025
Also govern a charity
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Gaps to watch
- No director brings board experience from anywhere else
- Narrow spread of sectors across the board
Where to look Suggested search: a director with board experience elsewhere; directors from a wider range of sectors.
Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more directors with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or group company. Connected through a shared director share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group.
Connected through a shared director
- Diageo PLC 1 shared director
- Coats Group PLC 1 shared director
- J Sainsbury PLC 1 shared director
- National Grid PLC 1 shared director
- Compass Group PLC 1 shared director
- Delta AIR Lines, INC. 1 shared director
Deterministic, from public records.
Company details
| Number | 00041424 |
| Status | Active |
| Type | Public Limited Company |
| Incorporated | 21/06/1894 |
| Address | PORT SUNLIGHT, WIRRAL, MERSEYSIDE, CH62 4ZD |
| Accounts next due | 30/06/2027 |
| Accounts last made up | 31/12/2025 |
Industry (SIC)
Ownership - persons with significant control (0)
No persons with significant control recorded.
Owns 17 companies iOwnsCompanies where this company is registered as having significant control, from the Companies House PSC (persons with significant control) register.
- Margarine Union (1930) Limited
50-75% shares, 50-75% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 - Unilever South India Estates Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 - Unilever US Investments Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 - Unilever Overseas Holdings Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 - United Holdings Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 - Associated Enterprises Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 - Unilever Group Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 - Toni & GUY Products Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 - Unilever U.K. Holdings Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 - Unilever Global IP Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2020-10-01 - Gronext Technologies Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2020-10-28 - Unilever AC Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting · notified 2023-10-27 - Magnum ICC UK Supply LTD
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2024-11-19 - Magnum ICC UK R&D LTD
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2024-11-19 - Magnum ICC UK LTD
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2024-11-19 - Alberto-Culver (Europe) Limited ceased 2024-09-24
50-75% shares, 50-75% voting, appoints directors · notified 2020-11-29 - Ekaterra Holdco UK Limited ceased 2022-07-01
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2021-01-18
Officers (81)
- Prakash Kakkad Secretary · appointed 2026
- Srinivas Phatak Director · appointed 2025
- Zoe Yujnovich Director · appointed 2025
- Benoit Thierry Potier Director · appointed 2025
- Judith Mckenna Director · appointed 2024
- Fernando Fernandez Director · appointed 2024
- Ian Keith Meakins Director · appointed 2023
- Nelson Peltz Director · appointed 2022
- Adrian Hennah Director · appointed 2021
- Rong Lu Director · appointed 2021
- Susan Saltzbart Kilsby Director · appointed 2019
Show 70 former officers
- Hein Schumacher Director · appointed 2022 · resigned 2025
- Maria Rosaria Varsellona Secretary · appointed 2022 · resigned 2026
- Alan Chalmers Jope Director · appointed 2019 · resigned 2023
- Andrea Jung Director · appointed 2018 · resigned 2025
- Ritva Sotamaa Secretary · appointed 2018 · resigned 2022
- Graeme David Pitkethly Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2023
- Youngme Moon Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2024
- Strive Masiyiwa Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2024
- Dekkers, Marinus Emmanuel Johannes, Dr. Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2020
- Vittorio Colao Director · appointed 2015 · resigned 2021
- Hartmann, Judith, Dr. Director · appointed 2015 · resigned 2024
- Nils Smedegaard Andersen Director · appointed 2015 · resigned 2024
- Feike Sijbesma Director · appointed 2014 · resigned 2023
- John Rishton Director · appointed 2013 · resigned 2022
- Laura May-Lung Cha Director · appointed 2013 · resigned 2022
- Mary Ma Director · appointed 2013 · resigned 2019
- Sunil Bharti Mittal Director · appointed 2011 · resigned 2013
- Tonia Erica Lovell Secretary · appointed 2010 · resigned 2017
- Rifkind, Malcolm Leslie, Sir Director · appointed 2010 · resigned 2015
- Raoul Jean Marc Sidney Huet Director · appointed 2010 · resigned 2015
- Stephen Geoffrey Williams Secretary · appointed 2009 · resigned 2010
- Ann Marie Fudge Director · appointed 2009 · resigned 2018
- Fresco, Louise Ottilie, Prof Dr Lr Director · appointed 2009 · resigned 2017
- Paul Steven Walsh Director · appointed 2009 · resigned 2015
- Paulus Geradus Josephus Maria Polman Director · appointed 2008 · resigned 2018
- James Arthur Lawrence Director · appointed 2008 · resigned 2009
- Narayana Murthy Director · appointed 2007 · resigned 2010
- Hixonia Nyasulu Director · appointed 2007 · resigned 2016
- Berger, Genevieve, Professor Director · appointed 2007 · resigned 2008
- Niels Michael Aage Treschow Director · appointed 2007 · resigned 2016
- Sven Henri Marie Antoine Dumoulin Secretary · appointed 2007 · resigned 2009
- Kornelis Jan Storm Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2015
- Grote, Byron Elmer, Dr Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2015
- Charles Edward Golden Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2014
- Jean Cyril Spinetta Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2007
- Ralph David Kugler Director · appointed 2005 · resigned 2008
- Brittan of Spennithorne, Leon, the Lord Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2010
- DIK, Wim, Professor Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2010
- Hilmar Kopper Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2006
- Chalker, Lynda, the Baroness Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2007
- Oscar Fanjul Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2006
- Bertrand Pierre Charles Collomb Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2006
- Claudio Xavier Gonzalez Laporte Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2005
- Cornelis Job Van Der Graaf Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2008
- Simon of Highbury, David Alec Gwyn Roberts, Lord Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2009
- Jeroen Van Der Veer Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2011
- Johannes Alexander Abraham Van Der Bijl Secretary · appointed 2001 · resigned 2007
- Charles Bernhard Strauss Director · appointed 2000 · resigned 2004
- Baron VAN Heemstra, Andre Rene, Baron Director · appointed 2000 · resigned 2005
- Keki Bomi Dadiseth Director · appointed 2000 · resigned 2005
- Patrick Jean Pierre Cescau Director · appointed 1999 · resigned 2008
- Rudolph Harold Peter Markham Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 2007
- Robert Mayfield Phillips Director · appointed 1995 · resigned 2000
- Roy Drysdale Brown Director · appointed 1994 · resigned 2001
- Antony Burgmans Director · resigned 2007
- Charles Miller Smith Director · resigned 1994
- Alan Clive Butler Director · resigned 2005
- Ganguly, Ashok Sekhar, Dr Director · resigned 1997
- Jan Peelen Director · resigned 2000
- Niall William Arthur Fitzgerald Director · resigned 2004
- Josephus Wilhelmus Bernardus Westerburgen Secretary · resigned 2001
- Perry, Michael Sydney, Sir Director · resigned 1996
- Floris Anton Maljers Director · resigned 1994
- Hans Eggerstedt Director · resigned 1999
- Okko Otto Hermann Muller Director · resigned 1997
- Heron, Michael Gilbert, Sir Director · resigned 1993
- Christopher Martin Jemmett Director · resigned 1997
- Morris Tabaksblat Director · resigned 1999
- Alexander Kemner Director · resigned 2001
- James Iain Walker Anderson Director · resigned 1998
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