{"id":70463,"date":"2026-03-31T06:56:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/marmite-maker-unilever-nears-deal-to-combine-food-arm-with-us-condiment-giant\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T06:56:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:56:56","slug":"marmite-maker-unilever-nears-deal-to-combine-food-arm-with-us-condiment-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/marmite-maker-unilever-nears-deal-to-combine-food-arm-with-us-condiment-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Marmite maker Unilever nears deal to combine food arm with US condiment giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Core focus will be on beauty, personal care and home products after spinning off brands such as Hellmann\u2019s and Pot Noodle into $60bn entity <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/31\/iran-latest-updates-trump-threats-oil-spill-dubai-tehran-jerusalem-strikes\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unilever is in advanced talks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/20\/marmite-maker-unilever-merger-talks-us-mccormick\">combine its food business with US-based McCormick<\/a>, in a deal including $15.7bn (\u00a311.9bn) cash that would give the Marmite-to-Hellmann\u2019s mayonnaise owner majority control of a $60bn food empire.<\/p>\n<p>London-listed Unilever will control 65% of the new spin-off, which will combine brands such as Knorr and Pot Noodle with McCormick\u2019s condiments and spices including French\u2019s mustard, Old Bay seasoning and Cholula hot sauce.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/31\/marmite-maker-unilever-nears-deal-to-combine-food-arm-with-us-condiment-giant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Core focus will be on beauty, personal care and home products after spinning off brands such as Hellmann\u2019s and Pot Noodle into $60bn entity Business live \u2013 latest updates Unilever is in advanced talks to combine its food business with US-based McCormick, in a deal including $15.7bn (\u00a311.9bn) cash that would give the Marmite-to-Hellmann\u2019s mayonnaise &#8230; <a title=\"Marmite maker Unilever nears deal to combine food arm with US condiment giant\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/marmite-maker-unilever-nears-deal-to-combine-food-arm-with-us-condiment-giant\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Marmite maker Unilever nears deal to combine food arm with US condiment giant\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}