Key Highlights

● Ten senior Unilever executives purchased additional shares on September 23, 2026 through dividend reinvestment.

● CFO Srinivas Phatak and Hindustan Unilever CEO Priya Nair were among those named in the disclosure.

● Purchases spanned the London Stock Exchange and Euronext Amsterdam in both pounds and euros.

● The filing is a routine PDMR disclosure and does not address financial results or strategy.

Unilever PLC (NYSE:UL) filed a Form 6-K on September 25, 2026 disclosing that ten of its senior executives, including Chief Financial Officer Srinivas Phatak and Hindustan Unilever CEO Priya Nair, purchased additional shares on September 23, 2026 through the company's Dividend reinvestment arrangements, in transactions across the London Stock Exchange and Euronext Amsterdam.

Why Executives File These Disclosures

Executives and other people classified as "persons discharging managerial responsibilities," or PDMRs, at companies listed in the UK and Europe are required to publicly disclose their own transactions in company shares, including routine ones like dividend reinvestment purchases, within a short window after the trade. Because Unilever is also an SEC-reporting foreign private issuer, it passes these PDMR notifications along to U.S. investors through a Form 6-K rather than requiring each executive to make a separate U.S. filing.

Who Bought What

According to the filing, Phatak acquired 451.18 GBP-denominated shares at GBP 47.14 each and 34.21 EUR-denominated shares at EUR 54.81 each, worth a combined GBP 21,269.62 and EUR 1,875.33. Nair, who leads Unilever's Indian Subsidiary Hindustan Unilever, bought 421.56 shares at GBP 47.14, valued at GBP 19,873.43. Reginaldo Ecclissato, President of Unilever Markets, purchased 664.91 GBP shares and 172.87 EUR shares, worth GBP 31,345.67 and EUR 9,474.88 respectively. Richard Slater, Chief Research & Development Officer, bought 617.64 GBP shares and 133.96 EUR shares, valued at GBP 29,117.07 and EUR 7,342.23. Eduardo Campanella, Business Group President for Home Care, purchased smaller amounts: 143.80 GBP shares and 135.63 EUR shares, worth GBP 6,778.89 and EUR 7,434.06.

The filing also names four additional participants in smaller reinvestment transactions during the same period: Mairead Nayager, Willem Uijen, Heiko Schipper and Prakash Kakkad, rounding out the ten disclosed executives. Each transaction is broken out separately in the filing by currency, share count and price, reflecting the fact that Unilever shares trade in both British pounds on the London Stock Exchange and euros on Euronext Amsterdam, and that reinvestment purchases are executed on each listing according to where the individual executive's dividend entitlement was paid.

The Mechanics of Dividend Reinvestment

Rather than receiving cash dividends directly, participants in a dividend reinvestment plan have those payouts automatically used to buy additional company shares, typically at the prevailing Market Price on a set date. The filing specifies that these particular purchases took place "during an open period," language referring to a window under market-abuse rules when insiders are permitted to trade because the company is not then in possession of undisclosed material information that would otherwise require a trading blackout.

What This Filing Does Not Say

The 6-K is a routine disclosure and does not describe Unilever's financial results, strategy, or any pending corporate action; it exists solely to satisfy the transparency requirement around insider share dealings. It does not indicate whether any of the ten executives plan further purchases, nor does it address the company's dividend policy beyond confirming that a reinvestment mechanism is available to its senior leaders. Unilever is a London-headquartered consumer goods company whose products span home care, beauty and wellbeing, and nutrition, and whose shares are listed in London, Amsterdam and, through this SEC filing, are also followed by U.S. investors as a foreign private issuer.

Tracking Future Insider Disclosures

Because PDMR dealings must be disclosed on an ongoing basis, watch for further 6-K filings disclosing subsequent dividend reinvestment purchases or other share transactions by Unilever's Leadership team as future dividend payment dates arrive. There is no specific future date or condition flagged in this filing itself beyond the routine cadence of Unilever's dividend payments and the associated reinvestment purchases they generate. Investors interested in the size or direction of insider ownership over time can track the recurring pattern of these disclosures across successive dividend periods.