The home and personal-care division of Unilever accounts for 45% of the group's sales and does about two-thirds of its business in emerging economies.

联合利华的日常和个人护理部门的销售额占整个集团的45%而且占据了公司在新兴经济体业务的三分之二。

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“Between now and 2015 there will be an extra 400m toilets,” notes Keith Weed, head of home-care and hygiene at Unilever, with enthusiasm: “The more toilets, the more surfaces that need cleaning.”

Keith Weed,联合利华家庭护理与卫生的首席长官充满激情的说：“从现在到2015年，将会产生4亿个厕所。厕所越多，需要清理的表面就越多”。

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Ghana was chosen as the home for Clean Team because Unilever has a significant presence there and WSUP was already operating in Kumasi, the second city of Ghana.

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One of the early takers was Unilever Kenya, a leading manufacturing company that makes, among other things, food and home products.

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The web co-working clause will see AOL, which in America Online has the world's biggest internet service provider, swap research with Unilever's New Jersey laboratories, which are developing next generation mobile and in-home technology.

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