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Upfield Holdings B.V. is a Dutch food company owning multiple brands of margarine, Spread (food), food spreads, and plant-based foods, including Flora (spread), Flora and Blue Band (brand), Blue Band. It states that it is the largest plant-based consumer packaged goods company in the world, operating in 95 countries. Upfield was spun off from Unilever and purchased by investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) in 2018 for US$8.04 billion. History Margarine was one of the first products sold by the company that would merge into Unilever. Antoon Jurgens of Oss, Netherlands, acquired the patent for making margarine from its inventor Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès in 1871. Through a series of mergers Jurgens' company became Margarine Unie in 1927 and then Unilever in 1929. Since that time, Unilever has added other margarine and food spread brands. Although the food spreads division of Unilever maintained a robust profit margin, in the 21st century sales declined as many consumers switc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A (, lit. "Privately held company, closed company"; formally a , , ) or (SRL) is the Netherlands, Dutch and Belgium, Belgian version of a private limited liability company. The company is owned by shareholders; the company's Share (finance), shares are privately registered and not freely transferable. It is the most common form of limited company in the Netherlands and Belgium. A Dutch bv may be created by one or more individuals or Juristic person, legal entities, Dutch or foreign, with a minimum paid in capital of less than €1. A notarial act, notarized deed of incorporation is executed and filed. The deed must be in Dutch. It must contain details of the incorporators, and of the initial Members of the Board, their amounts of participation and payments of initial capital. The deed also contains the Articles of Association (law), Articles of Association, consisting of at least: * the company name (which must begin or end with "bv") * the city where the company has its regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
