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...White & Case has hired Alan Bao as a partner in Beijing to join their mergers and acquisitions business. Bao joins from O’Melveny....
...“Today’s results show an improving financial performance, with the return to volume growth and margins rebuilding,” said Hein Schumacher, who took over from chief executive Alan Jope last year....
...Speaking after a sales update that showed the maker of Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream and Dove soap increased prices almost 11 per cent on average last quarter, Alan Jope said Unilever was “very conscious that...
...Its chief executive Alan Jope retired and was replaced this month by Hein Schumacher, former boss of Dutch dairy co-operative Royal FrieslandCampina....
...Chief executive Alan Jope, a 35-year veteran of the company, announced his retirement last September just months after Peltz joined the board....
...Unilever has turned to the head of a Dutch dairy co-operative tosucceed Alan Jope as chief executive, accelerating a change inleadership after the consumer goods group became a target for activist investor...
...“There is plenty for Ben & Jerry’s to get their teeth into on their social justice mission without straying into geopolitics,” Unilver chief executive Alan Jope said recently....
...Unilever has until the start of November to respond to the latest accusations in court, while the dispute could taint the tenure of Unilever’s next chief executive, after Alan Jope announced he would retire...
...A slimmer, higher performing business will probably be welcomed by whoever takes over from outgoing chief executive Alan Jope....
...Unilever has even stopped paying the independent board members, they’ve said, and Alan Jope, the chief executive of Unilever, has, I think, been asked whether he plans to sell Ben & Jerry’s....
...The issue has been one of many headaches for Unilever chief executive Alan Jope, who has been attempting to turn around its financial performance by focusing on brands that are “purpose-led”....
...His response to Ben & Jerry’s, however, might be summed up as “no, not like that”....
...The maker of Knorr stock cubes, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and Domestos bleach raised prices 13.3 per cent in the final three months of 2022 and said they would continue rising as it faced pressure on margins...
...Keen motorcyclist Alan Jope has traversed rocky roads from Peru to the Gobi desert, but the terrain he navigated as Unilever chief executive has been one of the less forgiving....
...Outgoing Unilever chief Alan Jope will be remembered for the unwanted takeover bid he pursued....
...The maker of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and Hellmann’s mayonnaise has turned to the 51-year-old head of a Dutch dairy co-operative to succeed Alan Jope, after strategic missteps and financial underperformance...
...That is increasingly a concern for Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP, a payroll processor, who warns that it would severely limit the Fed’s latitude to respond in either direction....
...’s doorstep all fuelled the fire burning beneath the feet of chief executive Alan Jope....
...The consumer goods group has already faced pressure over Ben & Jerry’s: activist investor Nelson Peltz last year met chief executive Alan Jope at the request of several Jewish organisations and Israeli officials...
...Ice cream, with brands like Wall’s and Ben & Jerry’s, is the jewel worth perhaps half the overall food portfolio. A split should facilitate any disposal later....
...Unilever chief executive Alan Jope said on Thursday that the withdrawal had been a decision “by Ben & Jerry’s and its independent board” that was “in line with the acquisition agreement that we signed 20...
...Naftali Bennett, an ultranationalist who took office in June, called Unilever’s chief executive Alan Jope on Tuesday and told him the company had taken a “clearly anti-Israel step” that would be met with...
...Alan Jope, chief executive, said: “Moving to five category-focused business groups will enable us to be more responsive to consumer and channel trends, with crystal-clear accountability for delivery....
...In one of their first and only meetings in late September, Peltz met Jope for breakfast at London’s Claridge’s with a bitter taste in his mouth over Ben & Jerry’s ice cream....
...dialogue with Ben & Jerry’s and the rest of Unilever”....
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