17 Feb 2017 --- Kraft Heinz has made a merger offer for Unilever, it announced today. In a statement Kraft said Unilever had declined an initial offer to combine the two groups, but added they were still in talks. Speculation was sparked by the Financial Times’s Alphaville site, which reported this morning that an approach had been made. UK-listed shares in Unilever shot up 9.5 per cent to 3,679.5p on the news.
