Investment Focus
Unilever Ventures invests in businesses that aim to deliver innovative solutions to consumers.
This includes businesses operating in any of the following industry sectors:
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· Consumer Products & Services
o Food & Drink
o Home and Personal Care
o Beauty, Cosmetics and Wellbeing Services
o Weight Management and Fitness
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· Healthcare |
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· Leisure |
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· Retail |
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· Media |
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· Environmental Services |
We also look for investments that can be combined with and able to embrace:
· An existing Unilever brand
· A Unilever technology
· Expertise and know-how from Unilever
We consider the following types of investments:
· Start-up capital – we can provide venture capital, strategic and business planning advice, and can help assemble high quality management teams around exciting new business propositions. These opportunities will typically originate from within Unilever. Funding may be used for product / service development, consumer testing, initial marketing and manufacturing.
· Expansion / Development capital – we also invest in more established businesses in our focus sectors that require further funding to help accelerate growth. Funds in this instance may be used to finance increased production, product development and provide additional working capital.
· Buyouts – we are also interested in supporting MBOs / MBIs either as a lead or co-investor in businesses with a capitalisation of up to €50m. Companies must fit our investment criteria either as stand-alone investments or as strategic additions to one of our existing portfolio companies.
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