‘Please Don’t:’ Analysts Scorn Unilever’s Takeover Ambitions

  • “This is a very bad deal,” writes analyst at Bernstein
  • Unilever shares plunge 7%, biggest drop in almost two years

A production line inside the Unilever NV factory in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Photographer: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg
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Analysts are denouncing Unilever Plc’s 50 billion pound ($68 billion) offer for GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s consumer health business in unusually strong words.