UNV Unilever Nv

RNS No 6472w
UNILEVER PLC 
UNILEVER NV
8th September 1998


                      UNILEVER BOARD ANNOUNCEMENT


Unilever announced today that Antony Burgmans (51) will be
appointed a Vice Chairman of Unilever N.V. and a member of the
Executive Committee of the Unilever Board as from 1st October
1998. Mr Burgmans has been a director of Unilever since 1991
and is currently Business Group President for Ice Cream &
Frozen Foods Europe.

Robert Polet (43), Executive Vice President for Ice Cream &
Frozen Foods Europe, will succeed Mr Burgmans as Business
Group President and become a member of the Unilever Executive
Council with effect from 1st October 1998.
                               



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:

Mr Antony Burgmans (51) who is a Dutch national, was born in
Rotterdam in 1947. He studied business administration at
Nijenrode, the Netherlands, and social and political sciences
in Stockholm. He gained an MBA at Lancaster University. He
joined Unilever in the Netherlands in 1972 and the earlier
part of his career was spent in a number of marketing and
sales positions in the group's detergents businesses in the
Netherlands and Indonesia. In 1982 Mr Burgmans was appointed
Marketing and Sales Director of Lever in the Netherlands. He
became Marketing Director of Lever Germany in 1985. From March
1988 to April 1991 he was Chairman of PT Unilever Indonesia.
He was appointed to the Boards of Unilever on 8th May 1991 and
became Personal Products Coordinator, and also responsible for
Marketing Division. On joining the Foods Executive in 1994, he
assumed responsibility for all Unilever's foods businesses in
Southern Europe. In January 1995 he assumed responsibility for
Ice Cream and Frozen Foods operations in Europe.


Mr Robert Polet (43) who is a Dutch national, was born in
Kuala Lumpur in 1955. He studied business administration at
Nijenrode and gained an MBA at the University of Oregon, USA.
He joined Unilever in 1978. Mr Polet spent the first years of
his career mainly in marketing and sales, working among others
in France, Italy and Germany. From 1987 to 1989 he was
Marketing and Sales Director of Calve in the Netherlands. From
1989 to 1992 he was Chairman of Unilever Malaysia. From 1992
to 1996 he was Chairman of Van den Bergh Nederland. In 1996 he
moved to Brussels to become Executive Vice President Personal
Care Europe. He joined the Business Group Ice Cream & Frozen
Foods Europe in Rotterdam in November 1997 as Executive Vice
President.

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