Speeches

If you couldn't be there, but still want to know what Unilever had to say to investors, journalists or other stakeholders, click on the links below.

Paul Polman AGM speech

CEO Paul Polman outlines plans for the year ahead at Unilever's annual shareholder meetings

Transcript of the interview with Geneviève Berger

This is a transcript of the interview with Geneviève Berger and Vindi Banga, with questions from Tim Johns, Vice-President, Corporate Communications

Patrick Cescau – Doing Business 2008 report launch

Group Chief Executive Patrick Cescau speaks at the launch of the World Bank - International Finance Corporation's Doing Business 2008 report. Unilever House, London, 12th October 2007.

Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics 2007

Group Chief Executive Patrick Cescau is awarded the Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics at Columbia Business School's Social Enterprise Conference, New York on 26 October 2007.

Beyond Corporate Responsibilty

Group Chief Executive Patrick Cescau speaks at INSEAD's INDEVOR Alumni Forum on Integrating CSR into Business Strategy in Fontainebleau, France, 25 May 2007.

Antony Burgmans - the role of business in society

Chairman Antony Burgmans speaks at the 2007 World Traders' Tacitus Lecture, The Guildhall, City of London - February 2007.

Social innovation - values-led brands helping to drive business strategy

Patrick Cescau, Group CEO speaks at the Business as an Agent of World Benefit: A Global Forum - October 2006

Patrick Cescau - Food for life: meeting consumers' needs

Patrick Cescau speaks at the CIAA Congress, Brussels - October 2006.

Patrick Cescau on defining & designing our future

Patrick Cescau speaks at the 6th World Conference on Detergents, Montreux - October 2006.

Leadership & transforming an organisation

Patrick Cescau speaks at the CIES 50th World Food Business Summit, Paris - June 2006

Antony Burgmans addresses shareholders

Unilever N.V. and PLC annual general meetings.

Patrick Cescau addresses shareholders

Unilever N.V. and PLC annual general meetings.

Global public finance and funding the Millennium Development Goals

Antony Burgmans, chairman of Unilever, speaks at the 4th Jelle Zijlstra Lecture by Professor Tony Atkinson, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam - December 2005