All Resolutions Approved at AGM

Unilever PLC
Unilever NV
3 May 2000

  
                           UNILEVER ANNUAL MEETINGS                           
                     - Shareholders Elect New Directors -                     
                         - All Resolutions Approved -                         
                                                                              
 
Shareholders elected three new directors to the boards of Unilever at the
annual general meetings in London and Rotterdam today.
 
Mr Keki Dadiseth, formerly chairman of Hindustan Lever Ltd - the group's
Indian subsidiary - has become a director and a member of Unilever's
Executive Committee. His first assignment is to undertake a review of
Unilever's top organisation.
 
Mr Andre van Heemstra joins the Boards as personnel director and a member of
the Executive Committee in succession to Mr Jan Peelen who retired at the
meetings.
 
Mr Charles Strauss becomes a director and assumes chairmanship of the North
America Committee, which co-ordinates Unilever's North America businesses, in
succession to Mr Robert Phillips who has retired.
 
All resolutions put before the shareholders at the annual meetings were
adopted.
 


May 3 2000

 

FootNote: The text of the chairmen's AGM speeches can be accessed via
www.unilever.com