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Aon Appointed Exclusive Broker and Consultant of Unilever Business Worldwide
PRNewswire-FirstCall
CHICAGO and LONDON
(NYSE:AOC)

CHICAGO and LONDON, April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC), the leading provider of global risk management and consulting services, today announced that it has formed a global partnership with Unilever to serve the needs of its business lines worldwide. The agreement enables Unilever to approach its buying through the services of Aon's core strengths -- risk management consulting, insurance brokerage and human capital benefits consulting.

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"This collaboration and integrated approach clearly demonstrates the significant depth and breadth of resources that Aon can bring to a major organization such as Unilever," said Steve McGill, chairman and chief executive officer of Aon Risk Services.

The three-year contract empowers Unilever to leverage Aon's relationships with the marketplace by pooling all local insurance and employee benefits together with core global programs, thereby allowing Unilever to reduce dependency on its own capital as well as benefit from bulk-buying opportunities and service efficiencies around the world.

"It's obviously prudent to have a practical and well-organized approach to risk management," said Pascal Visee, group treasurer for Unilever. "An arrangement like this helps enable us to keep our business simple, whilst leaving experts like Aon to deliver our insurance and benefits needs worldwide and ensure compliance with all corporate governance standards."

Andrew Appel, chairman of Aon Consulting, added: "By combining the expertise of Aon's risk and human capital consulting units, Unilever will receive a complete risk management solution on a global scale."

About Unilever

Unilever's mission is to add vitality to life. We meet everyday needs for nutrition, hygiene and personal care with brands that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life.

Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods with strong local roots in more than 100 countries across the globe. Its portfolio includes some of the world's best known and most loved brands including twelve euro 1 billion brands and global leadership in many categories in which the company operates. The portfolio features brand icons such as: Hellmann's, Lipton, Breyer's, Dove, Axe and Wisk.

Unilever has around 174,000 employees in approaching 100 countries and generated annual sales of over euro 40 billion in 2007. For more information about Unilever and its brands, please visit http://www.unilever.com/.

About Aon

Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management consulting. Through its 36,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon readily delivers distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Our industry-leading global resources, technical expertise and industry knowledge are delivered locally through more than 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Aon was named the world's "best broker" by Euromoney magazine's 2008 Insurance Survey. Aon also was ranked by A.M. Best as the number one global insurance brokerage in 2007 based on brokerage revenues, and voted best insurance intermediary, best reinsurance intermediary, and best employee benefits consulting firm in 2007 by the readers of Business Insurance. For more information on Aon, log onto http://www.aon.com/

  Media Contact                    Investor Contact
  David Prosperi                   Scott Malchow
  312.576.5042                     312.381.3983
  David_Prosperi@aon.com           Scott_Malchow@aon.com

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SOURCE: Aon Corporation

CONTACT: Media, David Prosperi, +1-312-576-5042, David_Prosperi@aon.com,
or Investors, Scott Malchow, +1-312-381-3983, Scott_Malchow@aon.com, both of
Aon Corporation

Web site: http://www.aon.com/
http://www.unilever.com/

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