Unilever said yesterday (1 May) that it has purchased 600,000 ordinary shares as part of its buyback programme to return value to investors.
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In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the company also revealed that 277,740 shares held as treasury shares had been released under employee share plans.
Unilever now holds 61.9m shares in its treasury and has 1.65bn shares in issue, the comapny said.
