"Unilever scales back job cuts and shifts roles to ice cream" was originally created and published by Just Food, a GlobalData owned brand.

Unilever is cutting about 1,500 fewer jobs in Europe than initially anticipated and hiring about 1,000 people, primarily those affected by its cost-cutting drive, for its soon-to-be spun off ice cream business,

About 1,000 Unilever Plc staff will keep their jobs by switching to the consumer goods company’s ice cream unit, a body representing its European workers said.

Unilever said earlier this year it would axe 7,500 jobs globally as part of a restructuring to save about 800 million euros