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- Unilever Chief Executive Paul Polman is retiring after 10 years at the top of the company.
- His annoucement comes less than two months after investors revolted against a plan to move the company’s consumer goods group’s headquarters to the Netherlands.
- Polman will be succeeded by Alan jope, the head of the company’s beauty business.
- Watch Unilever trade live.
(Reuters) – Unilever Chief Executive Paul Polman is retiring less than two months after a damaging row with shareholders and will be succeeded in January by Alan Jope, the head of the Anglo-Dutch group’s beauty business.
Polman’s exit comes after the maker of Dove soap and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream was forced to scrap a plan to move the consumer goods group’s headquarters to the Netherlands in October, following an investor revolt.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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