Pop­u­lar laun­dry de­ter­gent brand Breeze will soon not be un­der the um­brel­la of Unilever Caribbean Ltd (UCL).

In a no­tice post­ed to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change yes­ter­day, Unilever PLC an­nounced that it has tak­en the de­ci­sion to di­vest its laun­dry brands in the Caribbean and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca.

The re­lease said this would be sub­ject to the sat­is­fac­tion of cer­tain con­di­tions prece­dent, in­clud­ing the re­ceipt of reg­u­la­to­ry con­sents in rel­e­vant ju­ris­dic­tions.

The no­tice stat­ed, “The di­vest­ment will in­clude the trans­fer of trade­mark rights in sev­er­al so­lu­tion wash­ing brands, in­clud­ing the brands known as “Breeze” and “Ra­di­ante”, which are cur­rent­ly be­ing mar­ket­ed and dis­trib­uted in Trinidad and To­ba­go by Unilever Caribbean Lim­it­ed (UCL).”

The note added, “In an­tic­i­pa­tion of the lo­cal trans­ac­tions aris­ing out of this pro­posed di­vest­ment, the board of di­rec­tors of UCL on Sep­tem­ber 11, 2025, ap­proved the sub­mis­sion of an ap­pli­ca­tion to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fair Trad­ing Com­mis­sion to sat­is­fy the reg­u­la­to­ry re­quire­ments aris­ing from the pro­posed trans­fer of the brands “Breeze” and “Ra­di­ante” in the Trinidad and To­ba­go mar­ket.”

No­tably, the board of the Fair Trad­ing Com­mis­sion is still to be ap­point­ed.

In the ab­sence of the FTC board, sev­er­al busi­ness trans­ac­tions re­mained pend­ing the reg­u­la­to­ry re­quire­ments in­clud­ing the re­cent ac­qui­si­tion of restau­rant man­age­ment com­pa­ny Pres­tige Hold­ing by the Agos­ti­ni Group.