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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001104659-17-002268
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20170113

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			UNILEVER N V
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000110390
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SOAP, DETERGENT, CLEANING PREPARATIONS, PERFUMES, COSMETICS [2840]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		WEENA 455
		STREET 2:		3013 AL ROTTERDAM
		CITY:			THE NETHERLANDS
		STATE:			P7
		ZIP:			NONE
		BUSINESS PHONE:		201-894-2790

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O UNILEVER UNITED STATES INC
		STREET 2:		700 SYLVAN AVENUE (ATTN.: M MONTAGNINO)
		CITY:			ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			07632

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			UNILEVER PLC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000217410
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SOAP, DETERGENT, CLEANING PREPARATIONS, PERFUMES, COSMETICS [2840]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		UNILEVER HOUSE
		STREET 2:		BLACKFRIARS
		CITY:			LONDON ENGLAND
		STATE:			X0
		ZIP:			EC4P 4BQ
		BUSINESS PHONE:		201-894-2790

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O UNILEVER UNITED STATES INC
		STREET 2:		700 SYLVAN AVENUE (ATTN.: M MONTAGNINO)
		CITY:			ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			07632

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	UNILEVER LTD
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19820429
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Cecilia Blye, Chief Office of Global Security Risk</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Division of Corporation Finance</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Securities and Exchange Commission</font></p>
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<p align="right" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 5.4pt;text-align:right;text-indent:370.25pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">13 January&nbsp;2017</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Dear Ms.&nbsp;Blye,</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Re:</font></b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b>Unilever N.V. (File No.&nbsp;1-04547) and Unilever PLC (File No.&nbsp;1-04546) (Unilever N.V. and Unilever PLC, together, &#147;Unilever&#148;)</b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">I refer to your letter dated 30 December&nbsp;2016, which set out comments of the Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the &#147;Staff&#148;) to the filings listed above. The text of the Staff&#146;s comment is set out below, followed by our response.</font></p>
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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">1.</font></b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b>In your letter to us dated June&nbsp;18, 2013, you described contacts with Syria and Sudan. Your Forms 6-K filed March&nbsp;6, 2015 and March&nbsp;7, 2014 provide disclosure that you had revenues from Syria and Sudan. As you are aware, Syria and Sudan are designated by the U.S. Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism and are subject to U.S. economic sanctions and export controls. Please describe to us the nature and extent of your past, current, and anticipated contacts with Syria and Sudan since your 2013 letter, whether through subsidiaries, distributors, resellers, affiliates or other direct or indirect arrangements. You should describe any products or services you have provided to Syria and Sudan, directly or indirectly, and any agreements, commercial arrangements, or other contacts with the governments of those countries or entities they control.</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Response to Comment 1:</font></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">As disclosed in the Unilever Group&#146;s Form&nbsp;20-F for the year ended 31 December&nbsp;2015 filed on 23 February&nbsp;2016 (the &#147;20-F&#148;), the Unilever Group is one of the world&#146;s leading suppliers of consumer goods in the foods, home care and personal care product categories and sells these products in nearly all countries throughout the world.&#160; The 20-F discloses various financial information, including turnover and operating profit and assets, on a category segment basis (Personal Care, Foods, Refreshment and Home Care) and also on a geographic basis (Asia/Africa, Middle East and Turkey/Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, The Americas, and Europe).&#160; Other than with regard to the home countries of the Unilever Group (the United Kingdom and The Netherlands) and the United States, the Unilever Group does not generally disclose financial information on a country-specific basis.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">As described in our letter to the Staff dated July&nbsp;18, 2013, the Unilever Group did not have material business operations in Syria or Sudan at that time.&#160; As described in more detail below, management of the Unilever Group believes that the Unilever Group has not since that time established, and does not currently have, material business operations or sales in Syria or Sudan.&#160; Its business operations and sales in each of these countries relates to the marketing and sale of certain of its products, all of which are consumer goods in the foods, home care or personal care product categories.&#160; As described below, the aggregate total revenues attributable to these two countries was less than 0.1% of the Unilever Group&#146;s turnover during all periods presented.&#160; Due to the immateriality of its operations and turnover in Syria and Sudan from a financial standpoint and the fact that the products which the Unilever Group markets and sells in these countries are all consumer goods products, the Unilever Group does not believe that these activities would be deemed material by a reasonable investor.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Unilever Group does not have a legal entity based in Syria and historically generated sales in Syria solely through a single third-party distributor; due to an escalation of the conflict in the region sales have temporarily ceased.&#160; To the knowledge of management of the Unilever Group, no third party distributor working with the Unilever Group is owned or controlled by the Syrian government.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">For the years ended December&nbsp;31, 2013, 2014 and 2015 and the six month period ending June&nbsp;30, 2016, turnover attributable to operations in Syria amounted to approximately &#128;3.3 million, &#128;5.4 million, &#128;2.6 million and &#128;nil, respectively.&#160; For the periods in question, the Unilever Group&#146;s turnover from its Syrian distributorship amounted to less than 0.1% of the Unilever Group&#146;s total turnover.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The operations in Syria are managed out of Lebanon except for three individuals who were based in Syria and employed through a third party distributor until 2016.&#160; Thereafter, due to changes in the business, the subsidiary of the Unilever Group restructured the arrangement and there is no longer any dedicated workforce based in Syria.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Unilever Group does not have any agreements, commercial arrangements or other contracts with the government of Syria or, to the knowledge of management of the Unilever Group, with entities controlled by the government, except with respect to anti-counterfeiting training.&#160; However, the applicable subsidiary of the Unilever Group and/or the third party distributor make tax, utility and other ordinary course payments incident to doing business in Syria.&#160; These payments are made to the government of Syria and/or entities controlled by the government of Syria.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Sudan:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Unilever Group does not have a legal entity based in Sudan and currently generates sales in Sudan through two third-party distributors.&#160; To the knowledge of management of the Unilever Group, no third party distributor working with the Unilever Group is owned or controlled by the Sudanese government.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">For the years ended December&nbsp;31, 2013, 2014 and 2015 and the six month period ending June&nbsp;30, 2016, turnover attributable to operations in Sudan amounted to approximately &#128;22.2 million, &#128;16.5 million, &#128;20.3 million and &#128;11.8 million, respectively.&#160; For the periods in question, the Unilever Group&#146;s turnover from its Sudanese distributorship amounted to less than 0.1% of the Unilever Group&#146;s total turnover.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Unilever Group rents a small office space in the premises of its third-party distributor in Sudan and has a team of 1 manager and 6 staff persons supporting its operations in Sudan.&#160; Of these, 2 individuals have an employment contract with a subsidiary of the Unilever Group and 5 individuals are contracted from a third-party on behalf of a subsidiary of the Unilever Group by one of its third-party distributors in Sudan.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The Unilever Group does not have any agreements, commercial arrangements or other contracts with the government of Sudan or, to the knowledge of management of the Unilever Group, with entities controlled by the government, except a memorandum of understanding executed in order to aid the Sudanese Customs agency in its anti-counterfeiting efforts.&#160; However, the applicable subsidiary of the Unilever Group and/or the third party distributors make tax, utility and other ordinary course payments incident to doing business in Sudan.&#160; These payments are made to the government of Sudan and/or entities controlled by the government of Sudan.</font></p>
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<p style="font-size:10.0pt;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">2.</font></b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><b>Please discuss the materiality of any contacts with Syria and Sudan you describe in response to the comment above, and whether those contacts constitute a material investment risk for your security holders. You should address materiality in quantitative terms, including the approximate dollar amounts of any associated revenues, assets, and liabilities for the last three fiscal years and the subsequent interim period. Also, address materiality in terms of qualitative factors that a reasonable investor would deem important in making an investment decision, including the potential impact of corporate activities upon a company&#146;s reputation and share value. As you know, various state and municipal governments, universities, and other investors have proposed or adopted divestment or similar initiatives regarding investment in companies that do business with U.S.-designated state sponsors of terrorism. You should address the potential impact of the investor sentiment evidenced by such actions directed toward companies that have operations associated with Syria and Sudan.</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Based on the foregoing, as well as the quantitative immateriality of the de minimis amount of revenues derived from Syria and Sudan as discussed above, the Unilever Group believes that its contacts with these countries are not material and do not pose material investment, financial, reputational or share value risk.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Thank you for your assistance thus far. Your prompt review of our response would be greatly appreciated. We are available to discuss any of the foregoing and to the extent that you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Matthew Cannon at +44 207 822 5059 or matthew.cannon@unilever.com.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Yours sincerely,</font></p>
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