Identity
- Category
- Company / Operating
- Legal Name
- Unilever (China) Limited
- Legal Country
- CN
- Immediate Parent
- Unilever PLCGBKERN ID3472193977URLunilever.com
- Ultimate Parent
- Unilever
- Hierarchy Position
- Subsidiary
- CRM-provided legal name was applied as authoritative. - Unilever annual report listed 'Unilever (China) Limited' with Hefei, Anhui address. - Company China site (unilever.com.cn) was registered with ICP and China legal notices.
Unilever’s Annual Report & Accounts 2024 Group Companies list (Unilever Group subsidiaries PDF) shows "Unilever (China) Limited" as a Unilever group company and the group’s ultimate parent is Unilever PLC (unilever.com/files/unilever-group-subsidiaries-2024.pdf).
Firmographics
- Revenue
- $285.0M
- Employees
- 7,600
- Operational HQ
- Hefei, Anhui, China
- Annual revenue of approximately $285.0 million was estimated for FY2025. - The estimate was derived using a proprietary model. - The model utilized a revenue-per-employee benchmark of $225,000 for the manufacturing sector. - A 6% higher revenue per employee was associated with the product sales revenue model combined with regulated operations in this sector. - Headcount increased by 110% year-over-year, reaching 7,600 employees.
-Primary source (Official company website, 2026): '7500多名中国员工' on Unilever China 'Our Company' page; supports China payroll ≥7,500. -Secondary source (Official company news release, 2022-12-09): Unilever global 'Inside our markets: Unilever in China' article states 'more than 7,000' employees; confirms historical scale. -Context (Third-party data aggregator - employee distribution dataset, 2026): country distribution shows China ~2,700 members; treated as directional undercount of actual payroll. -Recency/material change (Official CN site & China news, 2026 & 2026-02-25/2026-01-22): active site with 2026 copyright and recent posts; supports current operations and 7500+ timeliness. -Uncertainty/caveats (Official pages, 2022–2026): company publishes threshold figures not exact payroll counts; no precise dated headcount available-estimate set at 7,600 to reflect '7500+' statement plus modest growth since 2022.
- The target entity is Unilever (China) Limited, a regional subsidiary. - The company's China website (unilever.com.cn) has ICP and legal notices, indicating operations in China. - Regulatory filings list a Hefei, Anhui address for Unilever (China) Limited, confirming an operational presence in China. - The parent company's UK location was discarded as it is not the operational hub for the entity in scope.
Corporate hierarchy
| Entity | Employees | Revenue | |
|---|---|---|---|
Unilever PLC· Global Ultimate ParentKERN ID 3472193977 | United Kingdom | 118,000 | $54.8B |
└ Unilever Brasil S.A.· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 5847008762 | Brazil | 9,020 | $270.6M |
Unilever Brasil Ltda.· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 2619814502 | Brazil | 9,019 | $270.6M |
Unilever(2 hidden) Unilever Brasil Industrial Limitada· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 8200715594 | Brazil | 9,019 | $0 |
└ E-UB Comércio Limitada· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 9428702380 | United Kingdom | 360 | $37.1M |
└ Unilever Brasil Gelados do Nordeste S.A.· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 3003196371 | Brazil | 180 | $13.5M |
└ Unilever Logistica Serviços Limitada· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 6824572137 | United Kingdom | 135 | $5.5M |
└ COMPRA AGORA SERVIÇOS DIGITAIS LTDA· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 3273648599 | Brazil | 129 | $4.0M |
└ OLE FRANQUIA LTDA.· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 5053550888 | Brazil | 80 | $2.8M |
└ Alberto-Culver do Brasil Cosmeticos Limitada· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 6646949723 | United Kingdom | 50 | $4.6M |
└ Smart Home Comércio E Locação De Equipamentos S.A.· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 2232363122 | Brazil | 8 | $879K |
Unilever (China) Limited· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 4537911448 | China | 7,600 | $285.0M |
└ Unilever (Guangzhou) Co. Limited· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 1424026916 | China | 201 | $17.2M |
Unilever (China) Company Limited· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 3769804304 | China | 7,500 | $281.3M |
└ Unilever (Tianjin) Company Limited· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 4708738246 | China | 379 | $25.8M |
└ Unilever (China) Investing Company Limited· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 4909201296 | China | 7,500 | $281.3M |
└ Unilever UK Plc· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 2876668146 | United Kingdom | 6,000 | $405.0M |
└ UnileverUKGroupLimited· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 9045320511 | United Kingdom | 6,000 | $405.0M |
└ Unilever South Africa (Proprietary) Limited· Domestic Operating ParentKERN ID 1190013908 | South Africa | 3,500 | $600.0M |
└ Unilever Mashreq For Food Products S.A.E.· Operating SubsidiaryKERN ID 3940631102 | Egypt | 3,000 | $202.5M |
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