Unilever must better explain why it is going Dutch

The multinational is meeting a lot of opposition in its efforts to move its HQ to the NetherlandsUnilever’s board is clearly rattled. You could hear its finance director, Graeme Pitkethly, on the Today programme defending the corporate plan to head to the Netherlands, and you could read the chairman Marijn Dekkers’ opinion piece in the Telegraph. These public pleas wouldn’t be necessary if the lobbying campaign – more than 200 meetings with investors over the past six mon