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Times
19-05-2025
- Business
- Times
Unilever announces £80m fragrance facility near Liverpool
Unilever is to invest £80 million to build an in-house fragrance business in the UK, including a new facility at its historical site in Port Sunlight in the northwest of England. The investment by the FTSE 100 Anglo-Dutch group is part of £300 million of spending in research and development sites, offices and factories in Britain over the next two years. The new facilities will include a fragrance research and innovation laboratory, a compounding facility, where new fragrances are blended and developed, and evaluation suites where products are tested. Robotics will be used to blend fragrance oils and perfumiers will work with artificial intelligence to develop fragrances. Unilever is one of the world's biggest consumer goods companies, and fragrances are an important part of its
Times
12-05-2025
- General
- Times
Goodbye to a visionary industrialist
From The Times, May 12, 1925The funeral of the late Viscount Leverhulme, which took place to-day at Christ Church, Port Sunlight, was the occasion of a remarkable demonstration of personal affection and public esteem. Some 15,000 persons lined the four-mile route from Thornton Manor and crowded the boulevards of the model village up to the precincts of the church. That building, which is one of the principal architectural features of Port Sunlight, was reserved for the private mourners and 1,000 privileged persons who attended the funeral in a representative capacity. Overnight the coffin, after its removal from the Art Gallery, had remained at Thornton Manor, the residence of the Hon W Hulme Lever, now Viscount Leverhulme, and it was at Thornton Manor that the
