The new structure is expected to allow for a more efficient rollout of increasingly bigger and more scalable innovations, and the optimization of resources behind strategic priorities.
With the addition of Kohinoor in India and Kamis in Poland, the company expects its percentage of sales from emerging markets to exceed 12 percent in 2012.
During his eight years at Unilever, Michael Polk is credited with transforming the company's business in the Americas and sharpening Unilever's portfolio strategy and creating a more competitive, faster growing, innovation-driven organization.
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On June 20, 2011, Foster's Group Limited received and promptly rejected an unsolicited, non-binding and conditional proposal from SABMiller plc to acquire all of Foster's shares.