Unilever to spinoff ice cream business, cut 7,500 jobs
Wall Street Breakfast
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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to See King Alpha's Wall Street breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning. |
| 0:08.0 | Good morning. Today is Tuesday, March 19th. I'm Julie Morgan. |
| 0:13.0 | Unilever has decided to spin off the brand that makes Chunky Monkey. |
| 0:17.8 | Exxon says the government should not favor certain technologies over another as long as the job gets done. |
| 0:24.7 | And workers at a car manufacturing facility in Tennessee vote to join the union. |
| 0:30.9 | Unilever plans to spin off its ice cream unit into a standalone business. |
| 0:36.0 | Unilever makes Ben and Jerry's and Magnum. |
| 0:38.8 | The company says this is part of a new cost savings program that also includes cutting 7,500 jobs. |
| 0:45.0 | The separation will begin immediately and is expected to be complete by the end of 2025. |
| 0:51.0 | Unilever expects the restructuring program to deliver total cost savings of around |
| 0:56.4 | 800 million euros over the next three years, which more than offsets the estimated operational |
| 1:02.2 | disenergies from the separation of the ice cream unit. |
| 1:06.0 | The proposed changes are expected to impact around 7,500 predominantly office-based roles globally, with total restructuring costs now anticipated to be around 1.2% of group turnover for the next three years, up from around 1% previously communicated. The London-based company in October |
| 1:25.0 | outlined a plan to streamline business and drive growth after admitting that |
| 1:29.5 | performance in recent years has not matched potential. |
| 1:33.0 | Following the news, Unilever was up more than 4% in London. |
| 1:38.0 | ExxonMobil will not move forward with one of the world's largest low carbon hydrogen projects if the |
| 1:44.2 | Biden administration withholds tax incentives for natural gas-fed facilities. |
| 1:49.4 | Exxon CEO spoke at the Sarah Week Conference on Monday and he said that giving preference |
| 1:55.3 | to green hydrogen over blue hydrogen would amount to a government attempt to favor |
| 2:00.2 | certain technologies rather than simply focusing on cutting overall emissions. |
| 2:05.9 | Under current guidelines, incentives are earmarked for projects that produce green hydrogen |
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