Hll Weighs Impact Of Unilever Units Selloff

Hindustan Lever Ltd will soon decide on the fate of its speciality chemicals business, which yields eight per cent of its total turnover.

Chairman K B Dadiseth said in a statement yesterday that he was aware of Unilevers decision to sell off its speciality chemicals division. The HLL board will decide the impact of this on Indian operations, he said.

While announcing Unilevers 1996 results in London yesterday, Unilever chairman Niall Fitz-Gerald had said the group had decided to sell this division which has a combined turnover of