AGM Statement

Unilever PLC 09 May 2006 UNILEVER PLC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND SEPARATE MEETING OF ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS ALL RESOLUTIONS APPROVED Unilever PLC shareholders today approved all resolutions put to the annual general meeting and the separate meeting of ordinary shareholders in London. Voting was by poll on each resolution and the results are set out below. All resolutions put to the annual general meeting and separate class meetings in Rotterdam on 8 May 2006 were also approved. BOARD APPOINTMENTS All continuing directors stood for election and were duly re-elected. These were Patrick Cescau, Kees van der Graaf, Ralph Kugler, Rudy Markham, Antony Burgmans, Leon Brittan Lynda Chalker, Wim Dik, David Simon and Jeroen van der Veer. Charles Golden, Byron Grote, Jean-Cyril Spinetta and Kees Storm were proposed for election for the first time and were duly elected. Bertrand Collomb, Oscar Fanjul and Hilmar Kopper retired as non-executive directors at the meeting. David Simon replaces Bertrand Collomb as the Senior Independent Director. GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE All resolutions relating to the Corporate Structure Review were also approved. • To allow greater flexibility in the allocation of assets between both parent companies • To allow shareholders the right, taking into account the need to ensure unity of management, to nominate candidates for election as Directors. SHARE CAPITAL CONSOLIDATION Shareholders also approved the share capital consolidation by which holders of Unilever PLC ordinary shares at 6pm on Friday 19 May 2006 will exchange 20 existing Unilever PLC ordinary shares of 1.4 pence each for 9 new Unilever PLC ordinary shares of 3 1/9 pence each. Dealings in the new shares are expected to commence on Monday 22 May 2006. As a result of the share capital consolidation, the Unilever PLC American Depositary Receipt (ADR) which comprised four Unilever PLC ordinary shares of 1.4 pence each will be changed to comprise one Unilever PLC new ordinary share of 3 1/9 pence. Citibank N.A., the depositary for the Unilever PLC ADR programme, will issue to each registered ADR holder as of 19 May 2006 0.8 Unilever PLC ADR for each Unilever PLC ADR held as of 19 May 2006. Fractions of both ordinary shares and ADRs will be aggregated and sold in the market with the cash proceeds being distributed to entitled share and ADR holders. REMAINING RESOLUTIONS The remaining resolutions were all approved. POLL RESULTS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING RESOLUTION FOR % AGAINST % VOTE WITHHELD 1.To receive the Reports and 1,710,840,398 99.87 2,196,246 0.13 13,910,134 Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2005 2.To approve the Directors 1,461,313,785 92.00 127,136,044 8.00 48,649,629 Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2005 3.To declare a dividend of 1,723,425,566 99.98 391,725 0.02 3,133,681 13.54 pence on the Ordinary Shares 4.To re-elect Mr P J Cescau as 1,713,452,507 99.80 3,362,318 0.20 3,536,540 a Director 5.To re-elect Mr C J van der 1,712,647,126 99.77 3,954,636 0.23 3,743,462 Graaf as a Director 6.To re-elect Mr R D Kugler as 1,712,840,270 99.77 3,957,120 0.23 3,545,789 a Director 7.To re-elect Mr R H P Markham 1,665,074,176 99.75 4,154,334 0.25 51,076,083 as a Director 8.To re-elect Mr A Burgmans as 1,647,987,865 96.06 67,518,351 3.94 4,824,805 a Director 9.To re-elect The Rt Hon The 1,611,951,310 99.85 2,397,837 0.15 19,076,305 Lord Brittan of Spennithorne as a Director 10.To re-elect The Rt Hon The 1,715,541,711 99.93 1,179,678 0.07 3,590,630 Baroness Chalker of Wallasey QC, DL as a Director 11.To re-elect Professor W Dik 1,714,534,141 99.89 1,903,883 0.11 3,871,102 as a Director 12.To re-elect The Lord Simon 1,715,252,931 99.92 1,397,240 0.08 3,643,224 of Highbury CBE as a Director 13.To re-elect Mr J van der 1,714,796,040 99.90 1,698,963 0.10 3,804,721 Veer as a Director 14.To elect Mr C E Golden as a 1,716,158,067 99.97 459,464 0.03 3,708,181 Director 15.To elect Dr B Grote as a 1,608,627,976 99.59 6,659,156 0.41 18,173,959 Director 16.To elect Mr J-C Spinetta as 1,711,091,385 99.69 5,406,784 0.31 3,840,358 a Director 17.To elect Mr K J Storm as a 1,707,655,928 99.67 5,655,615 0.33 7,022,838 Director 18.To re-appoint 1,599,852,023 99.05 15,316,023 0.95 16,778,749 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors of the Company 19.To authorise the Directors 1,705,781,647 99.33 11,514,117 0.67 3,037,586 to fix the remuneration of the Auditors 20.To renew the authority to 1,707,643,136 99.16 14,483,704 0.84 3,292,616 Directors to issue shares 21.To renew the authority to 1,717,978,171 99.59 7,108,281 0.41 1,809,479 Directors to disapply pre-emption rights 22.To renew the authority to 1,712,538,051 99.73 4,606,316 0.27 3,154,312 the Company to purchase its own shares 23.To give authority to align 1,717,310,922 99.93 1,214,438 0.07 8,407,437 the dividend generating capacity and dividend entitlements 24.To amend the Deed of Mutual 1,709,633,503 99.92 1,343,908 0.08 9,266,149 Covenants 25.To consolidate Unilever 1,720,594,537 99.93 1,270,344 0.07 5,014,229 PLC's share capital 26.To amend the Articles of 1,708,830,152 99.76 4,144,147 0.24 7,290,244 Association in relation to board nominations 27.To amend the Articles of 1,592,957,129 98.83 18,924,278 1.17 21,440,927 Association in relation to Directors' remuneration Votes cast as a percentage of the issued share capital was approximately 58.58%. Meeting of Ordinary Shareholders Amendment to the Equalisation 1,767,349,990 99.91 1,509,001 0.09 8,717,270 Agreement Votes cast as a percentage of the issued share capital was approximately 61.04%. A copy of the resolution put to shareholders has been submitted to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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