Unilever

Unilever to lay off 1,500 employees after failed GSK-Pfizer unit takeover bid

The announcement comes after Unilever failed with a $68-billion takeover bid for the consumer health care unit owned by pharmaceutical groups GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer

Former Unilever CHRO Leena Nair to lead fashion giant Chanel as CEO; all you need to know about her

With this Nair has joined the ranks of Indian-origin executives, including Parag Agrawal, Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai, in helming top global companies around the world

Unilever to drop word 'normal' in advertisements of beauty products, ban excessive photoshopping of models

The company, which owns skincare brands like Dove and Simple and haircare brands like TreSemme and TIGI, said the word “normal” will be removed from the packaging of at least 200 products within a year.

We've been profiting by slaughtering Antarctica's wildlife since it was discovered 200 years ago

Before 1833, at least seven million fur seals were killed in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic.

Johnnie Walker whiskey will be sold in recyclable paper bottles from 2021, announces Diageo

The distiller said that it has created a 100 percent paper-based spirits bottle made entirely from sustainably sourced wood

Beyond Unilever's cosmetic renaming of Fair & Lovely, brand must redress years of profiting off India's dark skin stigma

Let’s seize the opportunity to get Fair & Lovely to repair the damage it has caused, writes Anuradha SenGupta

Hindustan Unilever drops 'Fair' from 'Fair & Lovely' to make brand more inclusive

Consumer brand Hindustan Unilever announced Thursday that it's dropping the word 'Fair' from its popular fairness cream brand 'Fair & Lovely' to achieve a "more inclusive vision of beauty", reports said.

As human rights crisis brews in Assam's tea plantations, businesses must step up to end cycle of deprivation

To make a significant impact on the human rights of Assam's tea plantation workers, businesses need to move away from the window dressing approach of corporate social responsibility (CSR) that allows them to cherry-pick issues that they wish to address. They must move to a more robust and systematic approach — one that places the protection of human rights at its core.

GSK exits HUL, offloads 5.7% stake for Rs 25,480 cr in largest block trade ever carried out in Indian equity market

On 1 April 2020, GSK had announced the completion of its divestment of its popular healthcare drink brand Horlicks and other consumer healthcare nutrition products in India to Unilever.

Hindustan Unilever shares drop over 5% after company reports 4% decline in net profit in Q4

Shares of Hindustan Unilever on Monday fell 5.5 percent after it reported a 3.93 percent decline in consolidated profit for the fourth quarter due to coronavirus crisis from mid-March