Lever Bros. Record

Profit

Iitessrs. Lever Bros, Ltd., Manu

facturers of soap, perfumery, and margarine, and owners of enormous palm plantations and crushing mills, and one of the units of the mighty Unilever com bine, made a record profit in 1935. Paci fic Islands planters and traders, who always include Unilever in their prayers —and not necessarily to invoke blessings upon monopolists!—will be interested in the figures.

Lever Bros, report profits for 1935 as £648,000 higher, at the record amount of £6,951,000. After providing £4,738,000 for dividends on preference and preferred shares, the remaining profit of £2,213,000 equals 26 per cent, on ordinary capital, which. was increased by £2,000,000 to £8,500,000 during the year.

Ordinary dividends, unchanged at 15 per cent., require £1,275,000, or £300,000 more than last year.

Profits include the company’s propor tion of profits, less losses, of subsidiary and allied companies.