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"Unilever to move key jobs"
The New Indian Express, October 15, 2005
London:
Consumer goods giant Unilever will move more than 2, 000 jobs across human resources, finance and IT operations to India and eastern Europe. The maker of products like Dove soap and Lipton tea is in talks with Accenture and IBM about exporting thousands of IT posts to India and eastern Europe.
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Britian, these operations are undertaken at Crawley, Sussex, and Walton-on-Thames and Kingston-upon-Thames, both in Surrey. A spokesman said a decision would be taken within the next few months following a full review. “Our aim is to run out business as simply as we can,” he added. Unilever boss Patrick Cescau has begun an aggressive drive to turn the business around since taking up the role as sole chief executive earlier this year. His regime is already bearing fruit, with a pick-up in underlying sales growth. He has also started to jettison the slow growth areas of the business, including the European frozen foods arm. The outsourcing will however affect only ‘a handful’ of jobs in the UK at this stage. The spokesman declined to comment on potential job losses. “We have to explore all sorts of options, ranging from the retention of all these roes at the one end to outsourcing it all at the other. We have not yet decided,” he said.
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