Unilever’s ice-cream split pits London against Amsterdam for market listing

Ben & Jerry's is among the ice-cream brands owned by Unilever. Photo: Bloomberg

Joe Easton and Sabah Meddings

Unilever kicked off a duel between London and Amsterdam for a potential €17bn listing of its ice-cream unit, nearly four years after the Netherlands lost out to Britain for the consumer goods conglomerate's headquarters.

While the London-listed company has not decided where the owner of the HB, Walls, Ben & Jerry's and Magnum brands would hold its main listing, chief executive officer Hein Schumacher pointed out that the division is currently run from Rotterdam and is in the process of moving to a new head office in Amsterdam.