Acquisitions and firm growth: Creating Unilever's ice cream and tea business

Business History

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 8-28

  Jones, Geoffrey ^a   Miskell, Peter ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Acquisitions; Consumer Products; Diversification; Global Business; Ice Cream; Tea

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING; POST-WAR; TEA;

EID: 33845960458     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076790601062974     Document Type: Article

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