By Karlee Weinmann (June 20, 2013, 2:03 PM EDT) -- Unilever NV is shopping its Wish-Bone salad dressing unit to multiple interested companies, chasing a deal that could bring in between $400 million and $500 million, sources told Reuters on Thursday. Goldman Sachs & Co. Inc. is helping to steer the sale, which could send the well-known dressing brand to either B&G Foods Inc. or Pinnacle Foods Inc. Other food and consumer-goods companies, including Post Holdings Inc. and The Clorox Co., have already bowed out of the running. The sale would be the next big-ticket divestment for Unilever, which has undertaken a strategy to double down on its main personal-care business. Early this year, the Anglo-Dutch company unloaded its Skippy peanut butter brand to Hormel Foods Corp. for $700 million....
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