2025 Share
Buyback
London, 13 February 2025. With our
full year 2024 results, Unilever PLC announced a new share buyback
of up to €1.5 billion, to commence today ("SBB").
The purpose of the SBB is to reduce
the capital of Unilever PLC and it will take place within the
limitations of the authority granted to the Board of Unilever PLC
by its general meeting, held on 1 May 2024, pursuant to which the
maximum number of shares to be bought back by Unilever PLC is
222,831,091.
The SBB commences today, 13 February
2025, and will end on or before 6 June 2025.
Unilever PLC has entered into
non-discretionary instructions with Goldman Sachs International to
conduct the SBB on its behalf and to make trading decisions under
the SBB independently of Unilever PLC.
ENDS
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About Unilever
We are a global consumer goods
business with a portfolio of Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care,
Home Care, Foods and Ice Cream brands. Our products are used by 3.4
billion consumers every day from household necessities to premium
indulgences. We have around 120,000 employees and generated €60.8bn
turnover in 2024.
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,
including with relation to Unilever's share buyback, its purpose
and timetable. All statements other than statements of historical
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affecting the Unilever Group (the 'Group'). They are not historical
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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
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assumptions regarding anticipated developments and other factors
affecting the Group. They are not historical facts, nor are they
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announcement. Except as required by any applicable law or
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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.