(1) | | Unilever NV(Commercial Register No. 24051830) whose registered office is at Rotterdam (“NV”) andUnilever PLC(registered in England No. 41424) whose registered office is at Port Sunlight, Wirral, Merseyside, CH62 4ZD (“PLC”) (together the “Company”) and |
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(2) | | Paul Polmanof 31 Av de L’Ermitage, 1224 Chene Bougeries, Geneva, Switzerland (the“Executive”) |
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1. | | Definitions and interpretation |
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1.1 | | Throughout this document, the following definitions shall apply: |
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| | “Board”means the board of directors of NV and PLC; |
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| | “Commencement Date”means; 1st October 2008 |
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| | “Company”means together Unilever N.V. and Unilever PLC |
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| | “Confidential Information”means information (whether or not reduced to writing) in respect of the business, affairs and financing of the Company or any member of the Unilever Group, its or their suppliers, agents, distributors or customers, including but not limited to information relating to trade secrets or secret information, research, technical know-how, products, designs, pricing, marketing, business and financial plans, acquisition plans, clients and customers, stored or kept in any format including but not limited to software, diskettes including but not limited to copy-rightable material and/or documents, books, notes, tapes, instruments and property of any kind (either tangible or intangible); |
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| | “CLO”means the General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of the Unilever Group. |
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| | “Intellectual Property Rights”means patents, copyright and related or neighbouring rights, trade marks and services marks, rights in goodwill or to sue for passing off, rights in designs, rights in computer software, database rights, topography rights, rights in Confidential Information (including know-how and trade secrets) and any other intellectual property rights (including, without limitation, rights in get-up and rights to Inventions, trade or business names or signs and domain names) in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications (or rights to apply) for, and renewals or extensions of, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection which may now or in the future subsist in any part of the world; |
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| | “Inventions”means inventions, ideas and improvements, whether or not patentable, and whether or not recorded in any medium; |
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| | “Group Secretary”means the Secretary of NV and PLC; |
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| | “Remuneration Committee”means the remuneration committee of the Board; |
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| | “Termination Date”means the date on which the Executive’s employment terminates, as referred to in Clause 6; |
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| | “Unilever Executive”means the principal Executive Committee of the Board under the chairmanship of the Group Chief Executive; |
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| | “Unilever Group”means PLC, NV and any company in which either or both together directly or indirectly owns or controls the voting rights attaching to not less than 50% of the issued share capital, or controls directly or indirectly the appointment of a majority of the board of management, and references to a member of the Unilever Group or a Unilever Group company will be construed accordingly; |