After rocky start to year, Unilever axes 1 500 managers

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Article highlights:

  • Unilever will cut about 1 500 management jobs and reshape its business to focus on five main product areas as it tries to boost growth after a failed acquisition and with an activist investor to appease.
  • The move, which Unilever said had been in the works for a year, echoes the reshaping by rival Procter & Gamble (P&G) three years ago.
  • Unilever, which is expected next month report a decline in full-year net income, has struggled through the pandemic with rising raw material, labour and transport costs.