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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #ai--CauzzyAI (cauzzy.ai) today announced a strategic partnership with Unilever Prestige, bringing its Enterprise AI platform within the Unilever Prestige portfolio. The collaboration marks a significant milestone in Unilever Prestige's vision to become an AI-native enterprise, embedding intelligent AI into everyday business operations to accelerate innovation, simplify complex processes, and enable teams to make faster, more informed decisions. As AI reshapes the futur.

Unilever is betting that shedding food assets and focusing on beauty, personal care and home products will ​close a valuation gap with more focused rivals. The challenge is convincing investors that a simpler company can deliver higher returns.

Unilever offers unique exposure to emerging market growth, with 60% of revenue sourced from developing economies—double that of key peers. UL combines high emerging market growth (Q2 2026: 8.9% in Latin America, 10% in India) with developed-market defensiveness (24-month Beta of 0.16). The company's local production, established brand loyalty, and rural micro-distribution network are difficult to replicate, providing a deep competitive moat in emerging markets.

The dismissed claims relate primarily to how Ben and Jerry's operates, while the two claims that survived in full relate to missed payments by Unilever.

Unilever has agreed to protect employment terms of workers in its European and British food business for two years after the planned 2027 completion of its $65 billion ​merger of the unit with U.S. spice maker McCormick , according to a memo seen by Reuters.

Unilever NYSE: UL reported accelerating volume-led growth in the second quarter, prompting the consumer products company to raise its full-year outlook as it expects pricing to become a larger contributor in the second half.

Unilever PLC (LSE:ULVR) has nudged its full-year outlook upwards after posting its strongest quarterly volume growth in more than a decade. The consumer goods group reported underlying sales rose 5.8% in the second quarter, ahead of the 4.14% City analyst consensus and up from 3.8% in the first quarter.

Underlying sales for the Dove soap maker rose 5.8% on year in the second quarter, compared with 3.1% a year ago, excluding ice-cream.

Consumer goods giant Unilever beat ​second-quarter sales growth estimates on Tuesday, ‌helped by higher volumes and prices, as its home care and beauty brands benefited from ​consumers reaching for trusted household names ​despite uncertainty from the Iran war.

The FTSE 100 Index was little changed this week as investors assessed the escalating UK-Iran crisis, the ongoing US earnings season, and a series of key UK economic releases. Market participants digested the latest jobs, inflation, and retail sales data for July, all of which could influence the Bank of England's next policy decision.