mumbai unlike firms like phillips and united technologies corporation owners of carrier and otis which have been trying to buy out domestic shareholders and take their companies private by delisting them from indian exchanges anglodutch fmcg giant unilever is happy with its 5157 per cent stake in its indian subsidiary hindustan lever ltd niall fitzgerald chairman and ceo of unilever plc told reporters at a press briefing that his company was perfectly happy to have significant shareholding in hll held by domestic investors hindustan lever is seen as a successful local company with international connections that is something we are very happy about and want to preserve fitzgerald said indeed the unilever chairman pointed out that the anglodutch giant was trying to replicate the indian model of having a large domestic shareholding in other markets when we consolidated our operations in china into one company we encouraged the local chinese authorities to take a 23 per cent stake in the company in indonesia too we have a significant domestic shareholding in the local unilever company he explained fitzgerald said that hlls big launches in the food would be in readytodrink cool tea segment we are not present in the beverages business currently and the cool teas to be launched under the lipton brand will be a big area of growth especially if you take into account the global trend among consumers of leading healthier lives and eating more nutritionally in the personal care segment the leading soap brand dove would be extended into the entire personal care segment apart from soaps the company would be launching other products including lotions deodorants and shampoos fitzgerald said internationally the dove brand was growing at 30 per cent annually fitzgerald said that the global restructuring of the businesses of unilever was proceeding as per the plans by 2005 we are supposed to shed 25000 jobs and have 30 less factories worldwide we have already reduced 21000 jobs and closed 13 factories in the last two years he said m s banga chairman of hll said that the indian operations were also ahead of the restructuring curve