Adding vitality to life

Welcome to our
Annual Review 2007

Unilever made good progress in 2007. Our underlying growth was 5.5% – the third consecutive year of accelerating sales growth.

These results are a tribute to our success in implementing our strategy. We made big strides in each of our key priority areas – the fast-growing markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America; growth in personal care; and a higher proportion of our sales coming from Vitality products.

The success of our One Unilever programme, the introduction of more multi-country organisations and other changes to our operating model have streamlined the business, simplified decision making and made Unilever a leaner, fitter, more responsive company.

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Group Chief Executive's review

Group Chief Executive

2007 was a good year for Unilever. We have grown consistently, achieving our best underlying sales growth in a decade.

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Important note
The two parent companies, Unilever N.V. (NV) and Unilever PLC (PLC), together with their group companies, operate effectively as a single economic entity (the Unilever Group, also referred to as Unilever or the Group). This Annual Review therefore deals with the operations and the results of the Unilever Group as a whole. The Unilever Annual Review (which contains the Summary Financial Statement) and Annual Report and Accounts are produced in Dutch and English.

Forward-looking statements
This document contains certain statements that are neither reported fi nancial results nor other historical information. These statements are forward-looking statements including within the meaning of the US Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For a description of factors that could affect future results, reference should be made to the full ‘Cautionary statement’