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...Unilever has replaced Marijn Dekkers as chairman, ending a tenure marked by controversy over a failed attempt to revamp the Anglo-Dutch company’s structure and move its headquarters to Rotterdam....
...He noted that the new strategy followed a change in nationalities at the top of Unilever: Mr Polman and the former chairman, Marijn Dekkers, were both Dutch....
...Marijn Dekkers, chairman of Unilever, urged small UK shareholders to back the proposal....
...Marijn Dekkers steps down with immediate effect after three-and-a-half years in the job....
...More here Nils Anderson, the former chief executive of shipping company AP Moller-Maersk and beer brewer Carlsberg, has replaced Marijn Dekkers as chairman at Unilever after a challenging three-year tenure...
...Marijn Dekkers, chairman of Unilever, on Tuesday urged small UK shareholders to back the company’s proposal to scrap its dual-listed structure and move its headquarters to the Netherlands....
...The group’s chairman, Marijn Dekkers, is also Dutch. Unilever’s dual-headed legal structure stems from the 1929 merger of the UK’s Lever Brothers with Margarine Unie of the Netherlands....
...It has also raised questions about the role of chairman Marijn Dekkers and chief executive Paul Polman....
...Some shareholders complained that Mr Polman left too much of the outreach to chairman Marijn Dekkers and Graeme Pitkethly, chief financial officer....
...Dekkers — and UK shareholders....
...But now that fellow countryman Mr Jope is taking over, and chairman Marijn Dekkers will soon be bowing out, it is unlikely the idea will be revived any time soon. If it is, I’m a Dutchman . . ....
...Marijn Dekkers, chairman of Unilever, defended the pay policy in front of shareholders gathered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall along the Thames in what was likely to have been the group’s final annual meeting...
...Read more on FT.com Unilever appeals to small shareholders ahead of crunch vote Marijn Dekkers, chairman of Unilever, has urged small UK shareholders to back the company’s proposal to scrap its dual-listed...
...Chairman Marijn Dekkers said the board continued to believe overhauling the company’s dual-listing structure, with headquarters in London and Rotterdam, was in the “best long-term interests of shareholders...
...Marijn Dekkers, chairman of Unilever, last week repeated that the move was the best option for Unilever to remain competitive in a packaged food and consumer industry entering a period of consolidation and...
...Sooner still may come questions over the role of chairman Marijn Dekkers, who had pressed UK shareholders to back the unification plan but now relies on their support for re-election....
...Ultimately, after weighing up the benefits of each market, the company with a Dutch chief executive and a Dutch chairman (Marijn Dekkers) choose to go to the Netherlands where the Dutch prime minister is...
...Dekkers, Unilever chairman....
...Marijn Dekkers, Unilever chairman, said that dismantling the dual-headed legal structure “will simplify our business and a single share class will give us more flexibility for major M&A — though there are...
...Marijn Dekkers, chairman, added that there were no plans to do either “but we need to make sure that we have the optimum optionality” for the future....
...There are good reasons for the Unilever board, chaired by Marijn Dekkers, to have chosen to be incorporated in Rotterdam, which the Dutchman outlined: the NV company is bigger than the Plc, with 55 per cent...
...So Paul Polman, Unilever’s chief executive, and Marijn Dekkers, its chairman, will be feeling the heat....
...One example of smooth succession planning is Bayer, where Werner Baumann took over in April 2016 from Marijn Dekkers, who had been chief executive since 2010....
...Chaired by Marijn Dekkers, former CEO of Germany’s Bayer pharmaceutical group, the board dismissed the offer as too low and making no strategic sense....
...Marijn Dekkers, the former head of Bayer who is chairing his first set of the Anglo-Dutch group’s annual meetings, said he was glad Kraft Heinz, had walked away quickly....
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