Unilever announced an unexpected move into a new segment with a deal to acquire Swedish company Blueair, which makes air purification systems for homes and offices. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Unilever is to expand its male grooming portfolio, and also open a new battle front with P&G, with the purchase of Dollar Shaving Club for a reported $1bn. California-based DSC shook up the wetshave market

Unilever Dove "My Beauty My Say" by Ogilvy & Mather Canada LVMH Fred "Define Your Luck" by Marcel & Liu Bolin Cinnamon Toast Crunch "The Affair" by McCann New York Tesco Mobile "Smile" by SapientNitro

Unilever exited another food segment with the sale of its Latin American vitamin-enhanced soy drinks brand AdeS to Coca-Cola, for $575m. The brand is available across several markets in the region including

Mather has taken over responsibility for Unilever's UK detergent Persil for longtime partner MullenLowe, while in the US, Deutsch was tasked with creative for streaming music service Pandora, out of TwofifteenMcCann.

Unilever Knorr "Love At First Taste" by MullenLowe London The Times "Cut Through The Noise" by CHI & Partners Viacom Paramount Channel "Actors" by Grey Argentina And here we go. P&G kicks off

Currencies and Europe weighed heavily on Unilever's results for 1Q. In particular there was a striking disparity between emerging markets - where underlying sales at constant rates were up by over 8%

such as Nestle, Unilever or Diageo. A proposed deal for the purchase of French mobile operator Bouygues by larger rival Orange also collapsed at the final hurdle after months of difficult negotiations.

and will become the new non-executive chairman of Unilever, succeeding Michael Treschow. His replacement at Bayer is Werner Baumann, current board member for finance and the EMEA region. French auto

Unilever reported solid performance for 2015, with turnover up 10% to €53.3bn. Exchange rates accounted for almost 6%, but underlying growth of 4% was still pretty good. Home Care and Refreshment (tea