Analysis of shareholding

Significant shareholders of NV

As far as we are aware the only holders of more than 5% (as referred to in the Act on Financial Supervision in the Netherlands) in the NV share capital (apart from the Foundation Unilever NV Trust Office, see page 42 and shares held in treasury by NV, see page 41) are ING Groep N.V. ('ING'), Fortis Utrecht N.V. ('Fortis') and AEGON N.V. ('AEGON'). We were informed that ING transferred part of its shareholding in NV to Fortis in July 2007 which is reflected in the information provided below.

The voting rights of such shareholders are the same as for other holders of the class of share indicated. All three shareholders have each notified the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) of their holdings. As at 2 July 2007 ING and Fortis indirectly held an interest in the NV issued share capital of 16.94% and 5.10% respectively, and as at 1 November 2006 AEGON indirectly held an interest of 5.57%. Detailed below are the interests in NV shares provided to the Company by ING, Fortis and AEGON in the second half of 2007. All interests are mainly held in cumulative preference shares.

ING

  • 31 171 093 (1.82%) ordinary shares (€4 987 375)
  • 20 665 (71.26%) 7% cumulative preference shares (€8 856 399)
  • 74 088 (46.0%) 6% cumulative preference shares (€31 751 894)
  • 504 440 (67.26%) 4% cumulative preference shares (€21 620 298)

Fortis

  • 4 453 850 (0.26%) ordinary shares (€712 616)
  • 46 000 (28.56%) 6% cumulative preference shares (€19 714 220)

AEGON

  • 399 689 (0.02%) ordinary shares (€63 950)
  • 4 995 (17.22%) 7% cumulative preference shares (€2 140 707)
  • 29 540 (18.34%) 6% cumulative preference shares (€12 659 957)
  • 157 106 (20.95%) 4% cumulative preference shares (€6 733 563)

Significant shareholders of PLC

The following table gives notified details of shareholders who held more than 3% of, or 3% of voting rights attributable to, PLC's shares or deferred stock (excluding treasury shares) on 1 March 2008. The voting rights of such shareholders are the same as for other holders of the class of share indicated.

Title of class Name of holder Number of
shares held		 Approximate
% held
Deferred Stock Naamlooze Vennootschap Elma 50 000 50
  United Holdings Limited 50 000 50
Ordinary shares Trustees of the Leverhulme Trust and the
Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust 70 566 764 5
  Legal & General Group plc 54 184 916 4
  Barclays PLC 40 319 254 3

Between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2007, Barclays PLC, The Capital Group Companies, inc. and Legal & General Group plc have held more than 3% of, or 3% of voting rights attributable to, PLC's ordinary shares. During this period, and as notified, certain of these holdings reduced to below the reporting 3% threshold. The table above sets out the notifiable interest of shares or voting rights attributable to PLC as at 1 March 2008.

Analysis of PLC registered holdings

At 31 December 2007 PLC had 63 825 ordinary shareholdings.

The following table analyses the registered holdings of PLC's 31/9p ordinary shares at 31 December 2007:

Number of shares Number
of holdings		 % Total
shares held		 %
1 – 1 000 41 044 64.31 16 842 627 1.29
1 001 – 2 500 13 290 20.82 21 198 976 1.62
2 501 – 5 000 5 262 8.24 18 451 027 1.41
5 001 – 10 000 2 149 3.37 14 723 218 1.12
10 001 – 25 000 876 1.37 13 019 461 0.99
25 001 – 50 000 316 0.50 11 058 969 0.84
50 001 – 100 000 214 0.34 15 165 228 1.16
100 001 – 1 000 000 513 0.80 175 415 138 13.39
Over 1 000 000 161 0.25 1 024 281 717 78.18
  63 825 100.00 1 310 156 361 100.00

Share purchases during 2007

  Total number of
shares purchased		 Average price
paid per share		 Of which, numbers of
shares purchased
as part of publicly
announced plans (a)		 € million
Maximum value that
may yet be purchased
as part of publicly
announced plans
January – – – –
February 485 177 €20.37 – 1 500
March 7 465 293 €21.13 3 917 782 1 418
April 6 600 000 €22.09 6 600 000 1 273
May 11 849 090 €22.81 11 195 731 1 018
June 7 273 454 €22.10 7 146 817 860
July 8 787 712 €23.40 8 787 712 654
August 7 092 471 €21.74 7 092 471 500
September 6 495 886 €22.19 6 495 886 356
October 5 431 376 €21.98 5 431 376 236
November 2 501 055 €23.62 2 501 055 177
December 7 371 158 €24.11 7 364 282 –
Total 71 352 672 €22.49 66 533 112 –

(a) Shares were also purchased to satisfy commitments to deliver shares under our share-based plans as described in note 29.