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 | | Unilever farms for salmon in Scotland, has prawn farms in several Asian countries, and is the major owner of a vertically integrated fishing business out of West Germany that includes catching the fish in deep-sea trawlers, processing the catch, and then selling the fish in company-owned shops and restaurants that carry the Nordsee name. |
 | | Unilever recognized that its well-being depended entirely on the benevolence of a host government and that this could be solicited but not extorted by threat or force." The Financial Times once quipped that Unilever is "the nearest thing British commerce has to civil service." It does resemble a government bureaucracy in its ponderousness and stolidity. |
 | | Unilever counts about twenty thousand of its people as managers, ranks two hundred of them as top managers, and "stars" about twenty-five of these two hundred as the elite cadre, capable of making it all the way to the Special Committee, These are managers heading up product groups, operating companies, or staff function departments. |
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