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,

"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 reducing job cuts in Europe. The company will cut 1,700 jobs instead of 3,200. It is also hiring 1,000 people for its ice cream business. The ice cream business will become a separate company.

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