Transaction in Own Shares

Unilever PLC
17 December 2007

17 December 2007





Unilever NV - Transactions in Own Shares



Unilever NV announces that on 14 December 2007 it purchased 600,000 Unilever NV
ordinary shares (in the form of depositary receipts thereof) at prices between
euro 23.630 and euro 23.890 per share. The purchased shares will be held as
treasury shares.



Unilever NV also announces that 13,134 Unilever NV ordinary shares held as
treasury shares were released under Employee Share Plans.



Following the above purchase and release, Unilever NV together with subsidiary
companies, hold 119,941,441 Unilever NV ordinary shares in treasury and has
1,594,786,259 ordinary NV shares in circulation.




Contact:

Unilever NV: Tanno Massar, Press Office, Rotterdam (Tel. [phone])


Unilever PLC: Tim Johns, Press Office, London (Tel. [phone])









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