Last year, Unilever
bought Dollar Shave for $ 1 billion.
Not exact matches
Consumer products giant Unilever says it has agreed to
buy the fast - growing California - based men's grooming business
Dollar Shave Club for an undisclosed sum.
Unilever didn't just
buy a new revenue stream with
Dollar Shave Club, they
bought an entirely new digital competency.
But that disappeared once Unilever instead agreed to
buy both Seventh Generation (for between $ 600m - $ 700m) and
Dollar Shave Club (for $ 1 billion).
We've seen an acceleration of this sort of Old Guard
Buys New Disruptor activity in the past couple years: Walmart / Jet; GM / Cruise; Unilever /
Dollar Shave Club; GE / ServiceMax; Mars / Whistle; Albertsons / Plated.
Fortunately, Polly loves the hunt for a good deal, hates impulse
buys, and enjoys going to great lengths to
shave a
dollar off a household necessity.