McCormick & Company and Unilever Foods describe progress on their proposed combination, highlighting a planned operating model focused on consumers and customers, with goals of disciplined execution, innovation and long-term growth. A planned Executive Team draws leaders from both organizations to manage brands, categories, customers and global regions.
The combined company plans a secondary stock listing on the London Stock Exchange while maintaining McCormick’s primary listing on the NYSE, reinforcing its global footprint alongside an International HQ in the Netherlands and Global HQ in the US. Management emphasizes integration planning momentum, expected synergies and a vision of a scaled global flavor business, while extensive cautionary language outlines risks that could affect timing, completion, financing, regulatory approvals, integration, leverage and anticipated benefits. Investors are directed to forthcoming SEC filings, including a Form S-4 proxy statement/prospectus and a Form 10 information statement, for detailed terms of the transaction.
Unilever PLC describes a proposed business combination involving McCormick & Company, Inc., Sandman Corporation (an indirect Unilever subsidiary) and the Unilever Foods business, including an anticipated separation and spin-off of Unilever Foods from Unilever and its combination with McCormick.
The text is largely a detailed forward-looking statements caution, highlighting that expectations about the transaction, its timing, structure, regulatory and shareholder approvals, financing, integration, tax and accounting treatment, synergies, leverage and ownership percentages are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties. It also notes broader business risks facing Unilever and McCormick.
The material clarifies that it does not constitute an offer or solicitation to buy or sell securities or a solicitation of any vote or approval. Instead, McCormick plans to file a registration statement on Form S-4, Unilever Foods plans to file a Form 10, and related proxy and information statement/prospectus materials will be submitted to the SEC. Investors are urged to read those future SEC filings in full when available to understand the proposed transaction.
Unilever PLC describes a proposed business combination in which McCormick & Company, Inc. would combine with Unilever’s Unilever Foods business through Sandman Corporation, an indirect wholly owned Unilever subsidiary. The structure includes a separation and spin-off of Unilever Foods from Unilever and its subsequent combination with McCormick.
The text consists mainly of forward-looking statements and extensive risk disclosures, highlighting regulatory approvals, shareholder approvals, financing availability, tax and accounting treatment, separation execution, integration challenges, leverage management and potential litigation as key uncertainties. It stresses that this communication is not an offer or solicitation for any securities and explains that McCormick will file a Form S-4 registration statement with a proxy statement/prospectus, while Unilever Foods will file a Form 10 information statement/prospectus, all to be carefully reviewed by investors when available.
Unilever PLC describes a proposed business combination involving McCormick & Company, Inc. and Sandman Corporation, an indirect wholly owned Unilever subsidiary, in connection with the anticipated separation and spin-off of Unilever Foods and its combination with McCormick. The text consists mainly of a detailed forward-looking statements caution, outlining extensive risks that could cause actual outcomes to differ from expectations, including failure to obtain regulatory and shareholder approvals, financing and tax uncertainties, integration and separation challenges, potential changes to transaction structure, and broader operational, regulatory, ESG and market risks facing both Unilever and McCormick. It also explains that McCormick intends to file a registration statement on Form S-4 and Unilever Foods intends to file a registration statement on Form 10, and emphasizes that this communication is not an offer or solicitation to buy or sell securities or a proxy, urging investors to read the future SEC filings carefully when available.
Unilever PLC describes a proposed business combination in which McCormick & Company, Inc. would combine with Sandman Corporation, an indirect wholly owned Unilever subsidiary that will hold Unilever Foods after a planned separation. The text is largely a detailed caution regarding extensive forward‑looking statements.
It lists numerous risks that could affect completion and outcomes of the transaction, including regulatory and shareholder approvals, financing, separation execution, integration challenges, additional debt for McCormick, potential legal proceedings, and broader operational and ESG-related risks for Unilever. It also emphasises that this is not an offer or solicitation and explains that McCormick will file a Form S‑4 and Unilever Foods a Form 10, which will include proxy and information statement/prospectuses that investors are urged to read when available.
Unilever PLC describes a proposed business combination among McCormick & Company, Sandman Corporation (an indirect wholly owned Unilever subsidiary) and Unilever Foods, including an anticipated separation and spin-off of Unilever Foods before combining it with McCormick. The text primarily provides an extensive cautionary statement on forward-looking statements and outlines numerous risks that could cause the transaction not to close or to differ materially from current expectations, including regulatory approvals, shareholder approval, financing, integration challenges and potential changes to the separation structure. It also explains that McCormick will file a registration statement on Form S-4, Unilever Foods will file a registration statement on Form 10, and that related proxy and information materials will be made available through the SEC, urging investors and security holders to read those documents when available.
Unilever PLC outlines a proposed business combination under which its Unilever Foods business would be separated from Unilever and combined with McCormick & Company, Inc. through Sandman Corporation, an indirect Unilever subsidiary. The text emphasizes that expectations for the transaction and the combined company are forward-looking statements subject to significant risks and uncertainties.
Completion depends on factors such as regulatory approvals, McCormick shareholder approval, financing availability, effectiveness of registration statements, successful execution of the Unilever Foods separation, and satisfaction of other closing conditions. Additional risks include potential changes to tax and legal treatments, integration challenges, higher debt at McCormick, possible legal proceedings, and a wide range of operational, ESG, market, and execution risks affecting both Unilever and McCormick. Investors are urged to review forthcoming SEC filings, including a planned Form S-4 for McCormick and a Form 10 for Unilever Foods, for detailed information.
Unilever PLC reports that several senior executives and leaders reinvested their cash dividends into additional Unilever PLC ordinary 3½ pence shares on 1 July 2026. These transactions were made under dividend reinvestment arrangements on the London and Amsterdam stock exchanges during an open period.
Participants included the Chief Financial Officer, business group presidents, functional chiefs and other Unilever Leadership Executive members. Each transaction reflects automatic or agreed reinvestment of dividends on beneficially owned shares, in sterling and/or euros, at market-based prices disclosed for each trade.
Unilever PLC has completed its 2026 share buyback programme of up to €1.5 billion. Under this programme, the company repurchased a total of 30,703,780 ordinary shares for an aggregate market value equivalent of €1,499,999,891, with purchases between 26 May and 5 June 2026 executed via Morgan Stanley on multiple trading venues and held in treasury.
Following these transactions, Unilever held 30,703,780 ordinary shares in treasury. As at 30 June 2026, issued share capital comprised 2,185,205,247 ordinary shares, of which 2,154,262,326 shares carried voting rights after excluding treasury and other Unilever group-held shares. The filing also notes a director PDMR purchase: Non-Executive Director Ruby Lu bought 8,915 Unilever PLC ADRs on 8 June 2026 at $56.055 each, for a total of $499,730.33.
Unilever PLC uses this Form 6-K to summarise several April–May 2026 capital and governance actions. The company continued its existing share buyback programme, repurchasing ordinary shares on London and other European venues via Morgan Stanley & Co. International, with all repurchased shares held in treasury. After these transactions, issued share capital was 2,185,205,247 ordinary shares, including 18,463,459 held in treasury, and there were 2,166,502,268 shares with voting rights as at 29 May 2026. The filing also details multiple management Bonus Deferral Awards and Performance Share Plan (PSP) grants, including awards to the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as well as open‑market share purchases by non‑executive directors. In addition, Unilever announces publication of the audited 2025 financial statements for Unilever Finance Netherlands B.V., available on its website, providing updated information for bond and debt investors.