Archive of Key Announcements

Notice of the Board Meeting to be held on 26.01.2010

Poll Results of Court Convened Meeting held on 29th April, 2008 "Scheme of Demerger for transfer of certain immovable properties of Hindustan Unilever Limited to Brooke Bond Real Estates Private Limited".

Notice of the Annual General Meeting to be held on Friday, 4th April, 2008 at 3:00 PM

Notice of the Extraordinary General Meeting to be held on Friday, 4th April, 2008 at 2:00 PM

ANNOUNCEMENT ON BUY-BACK OF EQUITY SHARES FROM THE OPEN MARKET

CORRIGENDUM TO THE PUBLIC ANOUNCEMENT DATED SEPTEMBER 25, 2007 TO THE EQUITY SHAREHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY

CLOSURE OF BUY-BACK SCHEME WITH EFFECT FROM 31ST JANUARY, 2008

PUBLIC ADVERTISEMENT ON CLOSURE OF BUY-BACK SCHEME

NOTICE / DRAFT RESOLUTION / EXPLANATORY STATEMENT FOR POSTAL BALLOT BUY-BACK OF SHARES BY THE COMPANY

The mailing of the Postal Ballot Forms for seeking assent/dissent of the members to the proposed Special Resolution for the Buy-back of equity shares by the Company, has been completed on 11.08.2007. Members may obtain duplicate Postal Ballot Forms from the Registered Office of the Company, if so required.

Schedule for Postal Ballot

[Attachments : # Notice # Explanatory Statement # Draft Resolution] ∙∙∙∙∙ pdf file

RESULT OF THE POSTAL BALLOT ON THE SPECIAL RESOLUTION RELATING TO THE BUY – BACK OF THE EQUITY SHARES BY THE COMPANY

The Special Resolution under Section 77A of the Companies Act, 1956 for the Buy –back of the Equity Shares by the Company was approved with an overwhelming majority of 99.77 % votes as detailed hereunder:

NOTICE / DRAFT RESOLUTION / EXPLANATORY STATEMENT FOR POSTAL BALLOT – FEB/MARCH 2007

The mailing of the Postal Ballot Forms for seeking assent/dissent of the members to the proposed Ordinary Resolution for transfer of marine undertaking of the Company, has been completed on 26.02.2007. Members may obtain duplicate Postal Ballot Forms from the Registered Office of the Company, if so required.

[Attachments : # Notice # Explanatory Statement # Draft Resolution] ∙∙∙∙∙ pdf file

RESULT OF THE POSTAL BALLOT ON ORDINARY RESOLUTION RELATING TO TRANSFER OF THE MARINE UNDERTAKING OF THE COMPANY ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF MARINE PRODUCTS IN EXPORT MARKETS  

The Ordinary Resolution under Section 293(1)(a) of the Companies Act, 1956 for transfer of marine undertaking of the Company engaged in the business of manufacture and sale of marine products in export markets was approved with an overwhelming majority of 99.92 % votes as detailed hereunder:


Votes in favour of the Resolution : 130,49,77,561


Votes against the Resolution : 9,88,258

DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT

The Board of Directors of the Company at its Board Meeting held on 20th February, 2007 recommended a final dividend of Rs.3.00 per share of Re.1/- for the year 2006, subject to the approval of the shareholders. Together with the interim dividend of Rs.3.00 per share paid on 22nd August, 2006 , the total dividend for the year amounts to Rs. 6.00 per share.


KEY DATES FOR THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 18TH MAY, 2007

In case, you do not receive your dividend by 30.05.2007, you may please send email to : Karvyshares.Frontoffice@unilever.com or mailmanager@karvy.com

Merger and De-Merger

1. Merger of Modern Food Industries (India) Ltd & Modern Food and Nutrition Industries Ltd with HUL

The Hon’ble High Court of Judicature at Bombay has passed Orders sanctioning the Scheme of Arrangement involving Amalgamation of Modern Food Industries (India) Limited (MFIL) & Modern Food and Nutrition Industries Limited (MFNIL) with Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL) on 9th February, 2007 for which drawn up Order dated 6th March, 2007 received by the Company has been filed with the Registrar of Companies, Maharashtra, Mumbai on 30th March, 2007 thus making the amalgamation effective from 30th March, 2007.


It may be noted that in so far as MFIL is concerned, HLL, the Transferee Company holds 100% of the Issued and Subscribed Capital of MFIL and since MFNIL is a wholly owned subsidiary of MFIL, HLL, the transferee Company is the ultimate parent and holding Company of MFNIL and therefore consequent to the amalgamation, all the shares of MFIL and MFNIL would be cancelled and no fresh shares are proposed to be issued in terms of the Scheme of Amalgamation.

2. Demerger and Transfer of certain Units of Hindustan Lever Limited (the Demerged Company) : To Shamnagar Estates Private Limited, Jamnagar Properties Private Limited and Hindustan Kwality Walls Foods Private Limited (now known as Daverashola Estates Private Limited) , (the Resulting Companies) respectively.

The Hon’ble High Court of Judicature at Bombay has passed Order sanctioning the Scheme of Arrangement between Hindustan Lever Limited, Shamnagar Estates Private Limited, Jamnagar Properties Private Limited, Hindustan Kwality Walls Foods Private Limited and their respective Shareholders and Creditors for the demerger and transfer of certain Units of Hindustan Lever Limited to Shamnagar Estates Private Limited, Jamnagar Properties Private Limited and Hindustan Kwality Walls Foods Private Limited respectively on 9th February, 2007 for which drawn up Order dated 6th March, 2007 received by the Company has been filed with the Registrar of Companies, Maharashtra, Mumbai on 29th March, 2007 thus making the demerger effective from 29th March, 2007.


As per the Order, the Demerged Units as defined in the Scheme are being transferred to the Resulting Companies from Hindustan Lever Limited, the Demerged Company.

RECORD DATE FOR VASHISTI DETERGENTS LIMITED (VDL) SHAREHOLDERS

With all requisite approvals having been obtained, the Scheme of Arrangement (Scheme) involving Amalgamation of Vashisti Detergents Limited (VDL) with Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL) has become effective. The Scheme will beoperative from the Appointed Date, i.e. 1st July, 2005.Pursuant to the said Scheme, those VDL Shareholderswhose names appear in its Register of Members as on the Record Date, would be eligible for 1 Equity Share of Re. 1/- of HLL for every 10 Equity Shares of Rs. 10/- each held in VDL and interim dividend @ 2.50 per share declared by HLL for the year 2005

31st March 2006, is the Record Date.

All requests for Share Transfers, Transmissions and change of address etc., for shares held in physical form should be forwarded before the Record Date, 31st March, 2006 to the Share Transfer Agents of VDL i.e.

M/S. Sharepro Services (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Satam Estate, 3rd Floor,
Above Bank of Baroda,
Cardinal Gracious Road,
Chakala, Andheri (E),
Mumbai - 400099.

Tel. No.: 022-28215168 / 28329828

SURRENDER OF VDL SHARES:

Request forms for surrender of VDL shares have been mailed to all the shareholders holding VDL shares in physical form during the first week of March, 2006. Request Forms can be downloaded from this Website under ”Forms”. Members are requested to surrender VDL shares by completing the said forms and lodge with Karvy on or before 31st March, 2006 at the following address.


Karvy Computershare Pvt. Ltd.,
Unit: Hindustan Lever Ltd.,
KARVY HOUSE, 46 Avenue 4,
Street No. 1, Banjara Hills,
Hyderabad - 500034.

Tel.: 040-23420818.
Fax: 040-23420814.
EMAIL: vdlmerger@karvy.com.

All shareholders holding VDL shares in dematerialized form will receive the credit of corresponding number of HLL shares in their respective demat accounts, within 10-15 days from the Record Date.


HLL shares will be despatched only on surrender of VDL share certificates duly cancelled by defacing with remarks ”Submitted for Exchange on Amalgamation with HLL”.

NOTICE

We are pleased to inform you that with all the requisite approvals having been obtained, the Scheme of Arrangement (Scheme) involving Amalgamation of Vashisti Detergents Limited (VDL) with Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL) has become effective. The Scheme will be operative from the Appointed Date, i.e. 1st July, 2005

Pursuant to the said Scheme, those VDL Shareholders whose names appear in its Register of Members as on a Record Date, would be eligible for 1 Equity Share of Re. 1/- of HLL for every 10 Equity Shares of Rs. 10/- each held in VDL and interim dividend @ 2.50 per share declared by HLL for the year 2005.

NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to Section 154 of the Companies Act, 1956 that the Company has fixed31st March 2006, as the Record Date.

All requests for Share Transfers, Transmissions and change of address etc., for shares held in physical form should be forwarded before the Record Date, 31st March, 2006 to the Share Transfer Agents of VDL i.e.,

M/S Sharepro Services (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Satam Estate, 3rd Floor,
Above Bank of Baroda,
Cardinal Gracious Road,
Chakala, Andheri (E),
Mumbai - 400099.

Tel. No.: 022 28215168 / 28329828

SURRENDER OF VDL SHARES:

Request forms for surrender of VDL shares have been mailed to all the shareholders holding VDL shares in physical form during the first week of March, 2006. Requist Froms can be downloaded from the Companies Website www.hll.com as well.

Members are requested to surrender VDL shares by completing the said forms and lodge with Karvy on or before31st March, 2006at the following address.

Karvy Computershare Pvt. Ltd.,
Unit: Hindustan Lever Ltd.,
KARVY HOUSE, 46 Avenue 4,
Street No. 1, Banjara Hills,
Hyderabad - 500034.

Tel.: 40-23312454 / 23320751/752/251.
Fax: 040 - 23311968 / 23323049.
EMAIL: vdlmerger@karvy.com.

All shareholders holding VDL shares in dematerialized form will receive the credit of corresponding number of HLL shares in their respective demat accounts, within 10-15 days from the Record Date.

You can also visit some of the realted web sites given below.

SEBI - The Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) web site.


www.sebi.gov.in

BSE - The Mumbai Stock exchange web site.


www.bseindia.com

NSE - The National Stock Exchange web site.

www.nseindia.com

The Ministry of Finance - The Ministry of Finance web site.

finmin.nic.in

In addition, should you have the need to get in touch with us, please do contact us.