Unilever sells its food business, including Marmite, Hellmann's, and Knorr, to McCormick for $45 billion. The end of a 26-year ownership.
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Unilever spins off its ice cream, and Marmite watchers take notes
Unilever's ice cream spin-off is the rehearsal for the food sale. What today's MICC listing tells us about the McCormick-shaped move coming next.
Unilever quietly puts Marmite up for sale
Reuters reports Unilever has opened a formal sale process for Marmite, Bovril, and Colman's. What the 'Historic British Brands' bundle actually means.
Will Marmite still be British? The McCormick takeover of Unilever Foods, explained
The Grocer is reporting that Marmite has been quietly reclassified as non-core inside Unilever. Non-core is corporate for "we are open to offers".
Marmite popcorn: the Joe & Seph's bag, what it tastes like, and how to make a better version at home
Joe & Seph's, the gourmet popcorn people based in north London, have done a deal with Unilever Food Solutions UK to produce the first officially licensed Marmite popcorn.
Remember when Marmite vanished from Tesco?
For about a week in October 2016, you could not buy a jar of Marmite in Tesco. There was a price tag where it should be, a gap on the shelf where it should be, and absolutely no jar. What was actually happening was a fight over a price rise.
Marmite is doing a 50-year retrospective, which is weird because the jar is 123
Marmite has published a 50-year anniversary interview this month, which is the sort of brand-PR exercise that I would normally skim and ignore, except that there is a small problem with the maths. Marmite was first sold in 1902. It is one hundred and twenty-three years old.
Marmite Peanut Butter is back, nine months after Unilever killed it
Marmite Peanut Butter is back on shelves.
The final Elton John Pride jar, and a million quid for the AIDS Foundation
Marmite has just put out the fourth and last in its limited-edition Pride jar series with the Elton John AIDS Foundation. The 2025 jar is themed around I'm Still Standing , Elton's 1983 single, and it carries off the run with the strongest design of the four.
When M&S was hacked, Tesco started delivering them Marmite
In late April 2025, Marks & Spencer's IT systems were taken out by a ransomware attack. Online orders went down. Inventory management went down. The internal supply chain went down.
