Should transport boycott Unilever for what there doing
malcolmgbell:
Should transport boycott Unilever for what there doing
Difficult, but we can boycott their products.
When you understand the relationship between suppliers of branded products and retailers you can have little or no sympathy for Unilever, for example Tesco who are in the news regarding this have a net profit margin of 2.2% every pound spent they make 2.2 pence not much.
The brands which the British public seem addicted to have margins of up to 40% when you have promotions like BOGOF the brands pick up cost of the “free” item
they also pay the supermarkets large sums to place their products favourably within stores, this means near the entrance where you walk into the store at the end of aisles and at eye level, the real villain of the piece in British retailing are the brands they rely on customer loyalty and those who like “named” products.
I personally find the quality of branded products questionable at best they rest on their laurels and have slowly lowered the quality of their goods in the hope that the “sheep” who follow their products don’t notice, products of better quality and a far better price can be had in the big 4 and all the discount retailers, brand snobbery remains the lifeblood of companies like Unilever.
Find below a list of goods you should never purchase again, they should be ashamed of themselves for using Brexit as an excuse.
Bertolli
Ben & Jerry’s – made in US
Bovril
Carte D’Or
Cornetto
Colman’s
Elmlea
Flora
Hellmann’s
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter
Knorr – made in Germany
Magnum
Maille – made in France
Marmite
PG Tips
Pot Noodle
Scottish Blend
Solero
Stork
Viennetta
Wall’s – some products made in UK
Cosmetics
Dove – made outside UK in several countries
Lynx
Radox
Simple – some products made in UK
St Ives – made in US
Sure
TRESemmé
Vaseline – made in Kenya and South Africa
VO5
Household
Comfort
Domestos
Persil
Surf
We actually run out of unilever in cannock and I did notice it going quiet the last few days… I don’t think a boycott will happen because unilever is a massive contract and any transport company’s would have it
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mike68:
malcolmgbell:
Should transport boycott Unilever for what there doingDifficult, but we can boycott their products.
When you understand the relationship between suppliers of branded products and retailers you can have little or no sympathy for Unilever, for example Tesco who are in the news regarding this have a net profit margin of 2.2% every pound spent they make 2.2 pence not much.
The brands which the British public seem addicted to have margins of up to 40% when you have promotions like BOGOF the brands pick up cost of the “free” item
they also pay the supermarkets large sums to place their products favourably within stores, this means near the entrance where you walk into the store at the end of aisles and at eye level, the real villain of the piece in British retailing are the brands they rely on customer loyalty and those who like “named” products.I personally find the quality of branded products questionable at best they rest on their laurels and have slowly lowered the quality of their goods in the hope that the “sheep” who follow their products don’t notice, products of better quality and a far better price can be had in the big 4 and all the discount retailers, brand snobbery remains the lifeblood of companies like Unilever.
Find below a list of goods you should never purchase again, they should be ashamed of themselves for using Brexit as an excuse.
The pound versus the dollar crashed 20% since the Brexit vote so the material cost of a company like Unilever goes up more than 20%, even domestic commodities have seen a price rise of 20%, wheat before the referendum 115 quid, now it is 135 quid so you want an international company to swallow that cost and not pass it on?
And your answer is to boycott them because you don’t agree with their cost going up because of the way our country voted?
This is just the start, companies like Tesco only hold stock for a few days, you just wait what happens when longer lead time products get adjusted and when the currency hedges of these companies expire or get filled because the pound hits the threshold.
Fuel prices are going up by 8p, what are you going to do boycot the forecourts because they are using Brexit as an excuse?
Wake up and smell the coffee, massive inflation is just around the corner.
I guess the BREXIT is starting… Next 2 years will be interesting.
Dan ze Man:
I guess the BREXIT is starting… Next 2 years will be interesting.
And profiteering by the big companies will continue too !!
Massive inflation is just what the country needs. The race to the bottom will end then. The housing bubble will burst and the reset button will be pushed. A report on radio 4 this morning said house bricks were worth ove £400 each. Not a bad mark up considering they’re purchased for under 30p each.
Most of our work is in the Eurozone, we buy fuel, tolls, hotels and food in Euros.
Even so putting the figures through the computer for a 10% drop in the value of the pound against the Euro it’s only added 0.7% to our costs of me getting a truck to the event. So I doubt Unilevers overall costs have gone up by the 10% they are asking for.
And it seems that Unilever is trying to play the same game in Ireland which is both in the EU and the Euro.
https://www.ft.com/content/9e5a01d0-ba03-31fb-843e-f770a6f7bda1
OVLOV JAY:
Massive inflation is just what the country needs. The race to the bottom will end then. The housing bubble will burst and the reset button will be pushed. A report on radio 4 this morning said house bricks were worth ove £400 each. Not a bad mark up considering they’re purchased for under 30p each.
wheelnutt:
mike68:
malcolmgbell:
Should transport boycott Unilever for what there doingDifficult, but we can boycott their products.
When you understand the relationship between suppliers of branded products and retailers you can have little or no sympathy for Unilever, for example Tesco who are in the news regarding this have a net profit margin of 2.2% every pound spent they make 2.2 pence not much.
The brands which the British public seem addicted to have margins of up to 40% when you have promotions like BOGOF the brands pick up cost of the “free” item
they also pay the supermarkets large sums to place their products favourably within stores, this means near the entrance where you walk into the store at the end of aisles and at eye level, the real villain of the piece in British retailing are the brands they rely on customer loyalty and those who like “named” products.I personally find the quality of branded products questionable at best they rest on their laurels and have slowly lowered the quality of their goods in the hope that the “sheep” who follow their products don’t notice, products of better quality and a far better price can be had in the big 4 and all the discount retailers, brand snobbery remains the lifeblood of companies like Unilever.
Find below a list of goods you should never purchase again, they should be ashamed of themselves for using Brexit as an excuse.
The pound versus the dollar crashed 20% since the Brexit vote so the material cost of a company like Unilever goes up more than 20%, even domestic commodities have seen a price rise of 20%, wheat before the referendum 115 quid, now it is 135 quid so you want an international company to swallow that cost and not pass it on?
And your answer is to boycott them because you don’t agree with their cost going up because of the way our country voted?
This is just the start, companies like Tesco only hold stock for a few days, you just wait what happens when longer lead time products get adjusted and when the currency hedges of these companies expire or get filled because the pound hits the threshold.
Fuel prices are going up by 8p, what are you going to do boycot the forecourts because they are using Brexit as an excuse?
Wake up and smell the coffee, massive inflation is just around the corner.
No, products produced by Unilever in the UK are exported to the EU making them cheaper it works both ways, pennies on a litre of diesel will make little or no difference the weak pound is a blip caused by computer based currency trading, Unilever are trying to work a number Dave Lewis the boss at Tesco is calling them out and they don’t like it.
OVLOV JAY:
Massive inflation is just what the country needs. The race to the bottom will end then. The housing bubble will burst and the reset button will be pushed. A report on radio 4 this morning said house bricks were worth ove £400 each. Not a bad mark up considering they’re purchased for under 30p each.
The housing bubble won’t burst, our housing stock just got discounted by 20% to any foreign investor, the Chinese are grabbing bloomin apartments in Slough by the hundreds for a 20% discount,
Suedehead:
OVLOV JAY:
Massive inflation is just what the country needs. The race to the bottom will end then. The housing bubble will burst and the reset button will be pushed. A report on radio 4 this morning said house bricks were worth ove £400 each. Not a bad mark up considering they’re purchased for under 30p each.
That’s what a finished house is worth per brick
wheelnutt:
OVLOV JAY:
Massive inflation is just what the country needs. The race to the bottom will end then. The housing bubble will burst and the reset button will be pushed. A report on radio 4 this morning said house bricks were worth ove £400 each. Not a bad mark up considering they’re purchased for under 30p each.The housing bubble won’t burst, our housing stock just got discounted by 20% to any foreign investor, the Chinese are grabbing bloomin apartments in Slough by the hundreds for a 20% discount,
Your last post said inflation is going to go up, so the bubble will surely burst. I don’t know anyone who could magic up an extra 25-50% of their mortgage every month
mike68:
No, products produced by Unilever in the UK are exported to the EU making them cheaper it works both ways, pennies on a litre of diesel will make little or no difference the weak pound is a blip caused by computer based currency trading, Unilever are trying to work a number Dave Lewis the boss at Tesco is calling them out and they don’t like it.
A blip by the computer? the pound has been sold off for three months by over 20%, that takes trillions to do and is not just a blip.
Dave Lewis? Do you even know where he came from? Yup, Unilever, a behemoth 20 times the size of Tesco, they will eat Tesco raw and spit them out.
wheelnutt:
OVLOV JAY:
Massive inflation is just what the country needs. The race to the bottom will end then. The housing bubble will burst and the reset button will be pushed. A report on radio 4 this morning said house bricks were worth ove £400 each. Not a bad mark up considering they’re purchased for under 30p each.The housing bubble won’t burst, our housing stock just got discounted by 20% to any foreign investor, the Chinese are grabbing bloomin apartments in Slough by the hundreds for a 20% discount,
If so they must be confident that the pound will recover and the UK economy won’t collapse in the long term.
Housing is being gobbled up by outsiders as an investment.
I think the public can be fantastically dullard and short memoried. Steered like lemmings by the press, jumping to any old latest tune.
Whatever people may think of Unilever Tesco are not a company that have showered themselves in glory. They for not one minute are the consumer “saviours”. They’re are their own “image and profit” saviours. I know of a chap who is a big supplier to Tesco in certain products that originate overseas.Their treatment of small suppliers for example is borderline greed insanity.
muckles:
wheelnutt:
OVLOV JAY:
Massive inflation is just what the country needs. The race to the bottom will end then. The housing bubble will burst and the reset button will be pushed. A report on radio 4 this morning said house bricks were worth ove £400 each. Not a bad mark up considering they’re purchased for under 30p each.The housing bubble won’t burst, our housing stock just got discounted by 20% to any foreign investor, the Chinese are grabbing bloomin apartments in Slough by the hundreds for a 20% discount,
If so they must be confident that the pound will recover and the UK economy won’t collapse in the long term.
Really? By buying up everything they can get their hands on for a 20-30% discount they make sure it doesn’t enter the open market and keeps the rental yields over 8%, even if the pound doesn’t recover, they still make more then putting their cash into an ISA.
Freight Dog:
I think the public can be fantastically dullard and short memoried. Steered like lemmings by the press, jumping to any old latest tune.Whatever people may think of Unilever Tesco are not a company that have showered themselves in glory. They for not one minute are the consumer “saviours”. They’re are their own “image and profit” saviours. I know of a chap who is a big supplier to Tesco in certain products that originate overseas.Their treatment of small suppliers for example is borderline greed insanity.
It wasn’t that long ago that Tescos were the bad guys, according to the press, for their treatment of dairy farmers. Typical press bending the story to suit their agenda. I can barely watch or listen to the bbc these days.
Tesco are a Big size dicks to.
There was a story how about Tesco paying 50% of a contract and renegotiating other 50% after the delivery’s were made.
Image u come to a counter in Tesco. U have to pay 60£ U pay 30£ then ask for manager to negotiate better deal for you on your other 30£.
That would be nice.