The multinational CPG company announced yesterday that it has signed a deal to purchase the plant-based personal care and household cleaners company known as Seventh Generation—thereby shoring up its position in the naturals market.
India’s strong consumer enthusiasm for its traditional wellness system, Ayurveda, has seen brands tapping into the naturals trend to profit: L’Oréal’s new Garnier launch is the latest.
Consumer goods multinational Unilever is investing in its presence in the Philippines, and has just awarded a host of branding accounts there to marketing company Ogilvy & Mather.
The Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant recorded double-digit growth in turnover in its full year 2015 results with innovations in the Personal Care business driving the segments improvement, but company CEO Paul Polman has warned 2016 will be tough thanks...
Unilever has been awarded for 'continuously distinguishing themselves by inspiring innovative brand marketing' ahead of the Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity.
Following accusations that Hindustan Unilever exposed former factory workers in Kodaikanal to mercury poisoning, the brand states that "extensive studies found no harm to workers or the environment".
While halal beauty is becoming an increasingly attractive category, market researcher Euromonitor reveals that for the multinationals; Asia's landscape is not 'easy game'.
Unilever is looking to expand its personal care presence in the Middle East and North Africa region with a new €75 million facility in Dubai which will generate around 600 new jobs.
Ever on the lookout for a new affirming marketing message for its personal care products, Unilever’s Dove has launched yet another ‘reality advertising’ video campaign, this time centering on the idea that consumers trust most the beauty advice of loved...
Anglo-Dutch consumer company Unilever is partnering with Global Citizen and Live Earth: Road to Paris, as part of its brightFuture campaign as it looks to grow its business while reducing its environmental footprint and increasing its positive social...
Anglo-Dutch consumer giant Unilever joins and welcomes the pledge by dozens of global leaders to reduce global warming pollution and try to put an end to deforestation.
Just like Godrej and Dabur India, Hindustan Unilever has witnessed the effects of a tough economic climate as although sales are up, demand remains weak.
The upcoming growth predicted for India’s male grooming sector is an opportunity that Pond’s, a beauty brand from Hindustan Unilever (HUL), is looking to exploit in the near future, with a launch of a range aimed specifically at men.
Global consumer goods manufacturer Unilever has partnered up with the University of Cambridge to further the university’s Sustainability Leadership programme (CPSL) with the recent launch of its first seminar in Asia.
Unilever has announced its intention to join the Facebook-led alliance ‘Internet.org’, which seeks to provide web access to India’s rural population, in a move which looks to make the most of reaching the key consumer group.
The slowdown in growth of the Indian economy is leading to signs that it is starting to hurt big cosmetic and personal care manufactures, highlighted by Unilever’s recent profit warning.
Unilever’s decision to roll out compressed versions of its Sure, Vaseline and Dove deodorants was a good one according to the latest consumer research and may set the standard for other size reduction initiatives in other consumer goods categories.
A team of Patna police, alongwith Hindustan Unilever Limited ( HUL) officials, have seized more fake cosmetics of well known brands worth Rs 10 lakh at raids at two cosmetics godowns in Nageshwar Colony.
As international cosmetic giants continue to hold their own amidst fierce competition on the Vietnamese market, domestic brands are struggling to fund campaigns and are disappearing from the market as a result.
A strong performance in personal care and increased exposure to the emerging markets has aided consumer giant Unilever as it announces its second quarter results.
Consumer goods giant Unilever could end the year on a high after the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service granted it permission to acquire Russia’s biggest cosmetics manufacturer, boosting the company’s presence in emerging markets.
Thanks to strong growth in personal care, driven by acquisitions and the emerging markets, Unilever has continued its strong growth in the third quarter of the year.
Having already tailored its business increasingly around personal care, Unilever CEO Paul Polman says the company is hoping to eventually derive most of its sales from emerging markets.
Unilever has revealed strong sales growth in its preliminary Q1 results, as both the personal care category and emerging markets make significant contributions.
The personal care division of the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever experienced the strongest growth of all divisions for the second quarter, seeing sales surpass all other business segments.
With recent industry financial results indicating that the worst of the economic crisis might be over, the first quarter of 2010 has in turn been marked by a flurry of M&A activity.
Unilever’s Chief Executive Officer Paul Polman has re-stated the importance of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) as a crucial measure in reducing deforestation.
Unilever has announced that it is selling its edible oils business
and palm oil plantation interests in the Ivory Coast, and will
instead invest in a soap business in the country.
Unilever has pledged to use only palm oil certified as sustainable
by 2015, while also supporting calls for a moratorium on further
deforestation for palm oil in Indonesia.
As part of moves to cut costs and increase its competitiveness
global personal care player Unilever has announced an agreement
which will see its human resource operations outsourced.
Despite announcing rising profits yesterday, both Unilever and
Proctor & Gamble saw their stock prices slip, reflecting
growing concerns over excessive competition in the FMCG sector.
Simon Pitman reports.
Fierce competition in the consumer goods sector has driven Unilver,
maker of some of the world's leading cosmetics and toiletry brands,
to cut back its earnings outlook for 2004 with a view to changing
it five-year sales targets.
Unilever has announced the completion of the sale of its Brut brand
of male personal care products in the Americas to Helen of Troy
Limited of El Paso, Texas, for $55 million (€47.07m) in cash.
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