Unilever is a British-Dutch consumer goods company that owns over 400 brands across food, beverages, cleaning agents, beauty, and personal care products. Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is Unilever's Indian subsidiary headquartered in Mumbai. HUL has a portfolio of 35 brands across 20 categories and annual sales of Rs. 34,619 crores in 2017-18. The document provides financial statements and analysis of Unilever from 2014-2018, showing increases in turnover, operating profit, and net profit each year. Key financial ratios like operating profit ratio and net profit ratio also increased during this period.
2. UNILEVER
Unilever is a British-Dutch transnational consumer goods company co-
headquartered in London, United Kingdom and Rotterdam, Netherlands .
Its products include food and beverages (about 40 per cent of its revenue),
cleaning agents, beauty products, and personal care products. It is
Europes seventh most valuable company. Unilever is one of the oldest
multinational companies; its products are available in around 190
countries.
Unilever owns over 400 brands, with a turnover in 2017 of 53.7 billion
euros, and thirteen brands with sales of over one billion euros: Axe/Lynx,
Dove, Omo, Heartbrand ice creams, Hellmann's, Knorr, Lipton, Lux,
Magnum, Rexona/Degree, Sunsilk and Surf . It is a dual-listed company
consisting of Unilever plc, based in London, and Unilever N.V., based in
Rotterdam. The two companies operate as a single business, with a
common board of directors. Unilever is organised into four main divisions
Foods, Refreshment (beverages and ice cream), Home Care, and Beauty
& Personal Care. It has research and development facilities in the United
Kingdom (two), the Netherlands, China, India and the United States.
4. Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is a British-Dutch company headquartered in
Mumbai, Maharashtra . Its products include foods, beverages, cleaning agents,
personal care products, water purifiers and consumer goods.
HUL was established in 1933 as Lever Brothers. Following the merger among Lever
Brothers in 1956, it was renamed as Hindustan Lever Limited. The company was
renamed in June 2007 as "Hindustan Unilever Limited".
As of 2019 HUL portfolio had 35 product brands in 20 categories and employs
18,000 employees with sales of Rs. 34,619 crores in 2017-18.
In December 2018, HUL announced its acquisition of Glaxo Smithklines India
business for $3.8 billion in an all equity merger deal with 1:4.39 ratio. However
the integration of 3800 employees of GSK remained uncertain as HUL stated there
was no clause for retention of employees in the deal. In January 2019, HUL said
that it expects to complete the merger with Glaxo Smith Kline Consumer
Healthcare (GSKCH India) this year.
22. CURRENT RATIO
CURRENT RATIO = CURRENT ASSETS
CURRENT LIABILITIES
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
0.63 : 1 0.63: 1 0.67 :1 0.73 :1 0.78 :1
DEBT EQUITY RATIO
DEBT EQUTY RATIO = DEBT
EQUITY
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
0.99 :1 1 :1 1.11 :1 1.58 :1 2.23 :1
23. TOTAL ASSET TO DEBT RATIO
TOTAL ASSET TO DEBT RATIO = TOTAL ASSETS
LONG TERM DEBTS
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
3.4 :1 3.23 :1 2.99:1 2.65:1 2.17:1
PROPRIETORY RATIO
PROPRIETORY RATIO = SHAREHOLDERS FUNDS OR
PROPRIETORY FUNDS
TOTAL ASSETS
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
0.29:1 0.3:1 0.3:1 0.24:1 0.21:1