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walterbernardjr t1_jdzl4ah wrote

Reply to comment by sauteedmushroomz in Why Is My Ben and Jerry's Made In the Netherlands? by thediscjoker

Unilever is a Dutch company

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_jdzm619 wrote

Unilever is a British company actually.

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walterbernardjr t1_jdzs2p5 wrote

Good point, I knew it had some Dutch origins so I had to look it up:

Unilever was founded on 2 September 1929, by the merger of the British soapmaker Lever Brothers and the Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie

I think the OTC stock is the one traded on the Dutch exchange which is why I thought it was Dutch.

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Room07 t1_je0a17d wrote

It is both actually.

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_je0oe5s wrote

No, in 2020 it adopted a fully British.

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Room07 t1_je0rpnv wrote

I guess it can be considered a UK company now but it's both a dutch and British company in terms of roots and origin. It's still considered both globally even though it's based on London. If I move to Europe in 2020 I'm not European. 😉

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