Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management has sold about 3.8 million shares in British consumer goods giant Unilever (ULVR.L), opens new tab for nearly 181 million pounds ($232 million), a filing showed on Wednesday.
The fund, the No. 5 shareholder, had previously held a 1.47% stake, or 36.6 million shares, in the owner of Dove soap and Hellmann’s mayonnaise worth about $1.8 billion, according to LSEG data.
It now holds about 32.6 million shares after the stake sale, a Trian spokesperson said in an emailed statement.