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Unilever sell Fabergé
by Grant Osborne, 30 May 2007 Industry News
Unilever have sold Faberge to Pallinghurst Resources who intend on using the Fabergename to brand precious and semi-precious stones to "create the world’s most powerful gemstone brand"....
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Axe gets US relaunch
by Grant Osborne, 23 April 2007 Industry News
Axe, the male grooming brand that was introduced in the United States in 2002, is changing the game once again with a reinvented bodyspray line that includes a sleek new look, improved fragrances and a refreshing and entertaining new marketing campaign....
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Coty becomes biggest fragrance company in the world!
by Grant Osborne, 11 July 2005 Industry News
Coty have today announced the completion of their purchase of Unilever's fragrance division making them the world's largest fragrance company....
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Helen of Troy completes Brut purchase
by Grant Osborne, 29 September 2003 Industry News
Unilever today announced that it completed the sale of its Brut brand of male personal care products in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and elsewhere in Latin America to Helen of Troy Limited of El Paso, Texas, for $55 million in cash. The two companies announced on September 2, 2003, that they had reached a definitive agreement....
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Unilever agree to sell Brut to Helen of Troy
by Grant Osborne, 02 September 2003 Industry News
Unilever today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell the Brut brand of male personal care products in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and elsewhere in Latin America to Helen of Troy Limited of El Paso, Texas...
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Unilever to sell fragrance business?
by Grant Osborne, 18 August 2002 Industry News
Consumer-products company Unilever is in the early stages of selling its fragrance business, but some analysts say the timing may be off. Sources say the Anglo-Dutch company is looking to raise $750 million from the sale of its Cosmetics International business...
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Unilever spend $90,000,000 on Axe
by Grant Osborne, 18 August 2002 Industry News
Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever are to spend $90 million in the next year introducing it's AXE body spray in the USA and Canada...
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Unilever not to sell fragrance brands
by Grant Osborne, 02 August 2002 Industry News
Unilever Group considers Calvin Klein cosmetics to be one of its core brands, said Unilever NV chairman Anthony Burgmans...
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Unilever give Ego the Axe - will Lynx be next?
by Grant Osborne, 02 July 2002 Industry News
Top South African deodorant brand, EGO, recently had a name change to AXE, bringing it in line with other countries...
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Axe deodorant to be launched in the USA
by Grant Osborne, 08 May 2002 Industry News
Unilever is introducing AXE to the US. Originally launched in France by Fabergé in 1983, it then appeared in the UK in 1985 rebranded as Lynx....
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FFI buys Elizabeth Arden from Unilever
by Grant Osborne, 31 October 2000 Industry News
Unilever has sold its Elizabeth Arden business to US company FFI Fragrances for $225 million, as part of Unilever's program to shed operations that don't meet its strategic needs....
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