FORM 6-K
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
REPORT OF FOREIGN ISSUER
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
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Dated November
22, 2024
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UNILEVER PLC
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Exhibit
99 attached hereto is incorporated herein by
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UNILEVER
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/S/ M VARSELLONA
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BY M VARSELLONA
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CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER AND GROUP SECRETARY
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Date:
22 November, 2024
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Notice
to London Stock Exchange dated 22 November 2024
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Unilever
Investor Event
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Exhibit
99
Press Office
Unilever PLC, 100 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y
0DY
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.unilever.com
Unilever Investor Event
Delivering the Growth Action Plan for consistent, higher
performance
London, 22 November 2024. Unilever
is hosting an Investor Event today. The event will focus on
the progress made over the last year, and set out the company's
strategic agenda under its "Growth Action Plan 2030" to deliver
consistent, higher performance with market-making, unmissably
superior brands.
The Investor Event will also confirm that Unilever remains on track
to deliver our comprehensive €800m productivity programme and
the separation of Ice Cream by the end of 2025.
Post the separation of Ice Cream, the Group will be focused on four
Business Groups:
- Beauty
& Wellbeing
- Personal
Care
- Home
Care
- Foods
(formerly Nutrition)
These four Business Groups will be driven by 30 Power Brands and
operate across 24 Business Group-led markets. These 24 markets
represent nearly 85% of Unilever's turnover. The remaining 100+
smaller markets will be run on a 'One Unilever' basis to benefit
from scale and simplicity, further enhancing our portfolio
prioritisation and focus.
Growth Action Plan 2030
The Growth Action Plan 2030 builds on the foundations of the
existing Growth Action Plan and will drive consistent and improved
performance under three strategic pillars: Focus, Excel and Accelerate.
Under Focus, Unilever will focus on its Power Brands, and the
key markets where we can drive the biggest returns. This
means:
- Doubling-down
in India
- Accelerating
and internationalising Prestige and Wellbeing
- Premiumising
and accelerating the US
- Growing
select emerging market powerhouses
- Premiumising
Europe whilst protecting profitability
Under Excel, Unilever will focus on five key
opportunities to drive brand growth. These are:
- Unmissable
brand superiority
- Social-first
demand creation
- Multi-year
scalable innovations
- Premiumisation
- Growth
channels
Under Accelerate, four critical capabilities will be
prioritised to enable the step-up in our performance. These
are:
- Science
& technology
- Lean
agile supply chain
- Net
productivity
- Scaled
Artificial Intelligence
Unilever's medium-term guidance remains unchanged. Post the
separation of Ice Cream, we aim to deliver mid-single digit
underlying sales growth, supported by underlying volume growth of
at least 2%. We expect modest underlying operating margin
improvement, driven by gross margin expansion through operating
leverage and productivity improvements.
Our ambition is to deliver top third total shareholder return
across our peer group and achieve an underlying return on invested
capital in the high teens, ahead of our previous ambition of
mid-teens. Our business is a strong cash generator, and we aim to
sustain an average cash conversion ratio of around 100% over time.
Value creation will be underpinned by disciplined capital
allocation. This will include making investments to drive growth
and productivity, continuing to reshape our portfolio through
pruning and bolt-on acquisitions, and delivering attractive capital
returns to shareholders.
Hein Schumacher, CEO of Unilever said: "Our goal is to deliver
best-in-class performance with market-making, unmissably superior
brands. We believe that our Growth Action Plan 2030 will help us to
deliver on this ambition.
"Delighting our consumers is at the very heart of our plan. Through
our company's new purpose, 'To brighten everyday life for
all', we are focused on making
the lives of people around the world more joyful, more convenient,
more efficient and more sustainable.
"We are excited about the opportunities to drive Unilever's future
growth, as we continue to progress Unilever's transformation and
unlock the company's full potential. We look forward to sharing our
plans with investors later today."
ENDS
Enquiries
Media:
Unilever Press Office [email protected]
Investors:
Investor Relations Team [email protected]
A live webcast of the Unilever Investor Event 2024 will be
available via www.unilever.com
About Unilever
Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of Beauty &
Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care, Foods and Ice Cream products,
with sales in over 190 countries and products used by 3.4 billion
people every day. We have 128,000 employees and generated sales of
€59.6 billion in 2023.
For more information about Unilever and our brands, please
visit www.unilever.com.
Safe Harbour
This announcement may contain forward-looking statements, including
'forward-looking statements' within the meaning of the United
States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, concerning
the financial condition, results of operations and businesses of
the Unilever Group (the 'Group'). All statements other than
statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be,
forward-looking statements. Words and terminology such as 'will',
'aim', 'expects', 'anticipates', 'intends', 'looks', 'believes',
'vision', 'ambition', 'target', 'goal', 'plan', 'potential', 'work
towards', 'may', 'milestone', 'objectives', 'outlook', 'probably',
'project', 'risk', 'seek', 'continue', 'projected', 'estimate',
'achieve' or the negative of these terms and other similar
expressions of future performance, results, actions or events, and
their negatives, are intended to identify such forward-looking
statements. Forward-looking statements also include, but are not
limited to, statements and information regarding Unilever's Growth
Action Plan 2030, Unilever's productivity programme and the
separation of Ice Cream. Forward-looking statements can be made in
writing but also may be made verbally by directors, officers and
employees of the Group (including during management presentations)
in connection with this announcement or the Investor Event. These
forward-looking statements are based upon current beliefs,
expectations and assumptions regarding anticipated developments and
other factors affecting the Group. They are not historical facts,
nor are they guarantees of future performance or outcomes. All
forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are
expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements
contained or referred to in this section. Readers should not place
undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
Because these forward-looking statements involve known and unknown
risks and uncertainties, a number of which may be beyond the
Group's control, there are important factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied
by these forward-looking statements. Among other risks and
uncertainties, the material or principal factors which could cause
actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking
statements expressed in this announcement are: Unilever's ability
to successfully separate Ice Cream and realise the anticipated
benefits of the separation, and Unilever's ability to successfully
execute and consummate its productivity programme in line with
expected costs to achieve expected savings. The forward-looking
statements are based on our beliefs, assumptions and expectations
of our future performance, taking into account all information
currently available to us. Forward-looking statements are not
predictions of future events. These beliefs, assumptions and
expectations can change as a result of many possible events or
factors, not all of which are known to us.
The forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this
announcement. Except as required by any applicable law or
regulation, the Group expressly disclaims any intention, obligation
or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any
forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change
in the Group's expectations with regard thereto or any change in
events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is
based. New risks and uncertainties arise over time, and it is not
possible for us to predict those events or how they may affect us.
In addition, we cannot assess the impact of each factor on our
business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of
factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those
contained in any forward-looking statements.
Further details of potential risks and uncertainties affecting the
Group are described in the Group's filings with the London Stock
Exchange, Euronext Amsterdam and the US Securities and Exchange
Commission, including in the Annual Report on Form 20-F 2023 and
the Unilever Annual Report and Accounts 2023 available on our
corporate website www.unilever.com.