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UNILEVER IS
A GLOBAL COMPANY
EUROPE
● €13.6 BILLION TURNOVER
● 2.6% UNDERLYING
VOLUME GROWTH
● 27% OF GROUP
TURNOVER
ASIA, AFRICA, CENTRAL &
EASTERN EUROPE
● €22.4 BILLION TURNOVER
● 3.0% UNDERLYING VOLUME GROWTH
● 41% OF GROUP TURNOVER
THE AMERICAS
● €17.3 BILLION TURNOVER
● 0.4% UNDERLYING
VOLUME GROWTH
● 32% OF GROUP
TURNOVER
2015 TURNOVER = €53.3
BN
8. A new way of doing
business
Equal opportunity & sustainable
livelihoods
Sustainably sourced raw
materials
The planet protected for future
generations
Access to water sanitation
& hygiene for all
9. • To double the size of our
business, whilst reducing
• Our environmental
footprint and increasing
our positive social impact
Positive
Social
Impact
Double the
Business
Reduce
Environmental
Footprint
Our vision
11. • Help more than 1 billion people improve
their health & well-being
• Halve environmental footprint of
our products
• Enhance the livelihoods of millions
of people
3 Big Goals
15. • €1 billion annual investment
• >6,000 R&D professionals
• 6 key R&D sites; 92 locations around the globe
• Portfolio of >20,000 patents and patent applications
>300 new patent applications filed each year; Most
active patent applicant in UK in 2013
• 64 research publications in 2015
R&D facts & figures
16. Our 6 key R&D sites
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Shanghai, CN
Bangalore, IN
Port Sunlight, UK
Colworth, UK
Vlaardingen, NL
Trumbull, US
17. Bangalore
India
Colworth
UK
Port Sunlight
UK
Shanghai
China
Trumbull
US
Vlaardingen
Netherlands
# FTE 292 513 768 415 411 703
Nationalities 4 19 23 7 17 52
% Female 32% 46% 37% 50% 42% 41%
PhD 50 125 196 91 79 170
Professorships 1 13 3 n.a. none 9
Recruiting
Universities
Calcutta
Jadavpur
Anna
Cambridge
Birmingham
Imperial
Liverpool
Manchester
Birmingham
Fudan
East China
Shanghai
Cornell
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Wageningen
Maastricht
Delft
More about our sites & our people
21. Career Opportunities for Graduates and Undergraduates
•Unilever partners with upReach
•Unilever Future Leaders Programme
•International Internships
•Unilever Industrial Placement Programme
•Unilever Summer Placement Programme
•Unilever Spring Programme for First Year Students
https://www.unilever.co.uk/careers/graduates/unilever-industrial-
placement-programme/
23. Unilever Standards of Leadership
• Growth Mindset
• Consumer and customer focus
• Bias for action
• Accountability and responsibility
• Building talent and teams
Editor's Notes
Over 100 years ago, in 1885, our British founder – William Lever – started up his own business making Sunlight soap. He was a social entrepreneur who could see how selling low-cost branded soap at a time when cholera and dysentery in Britain’s Victorian slums were widespread could improve people’s lives and grow his business.
He brought hygiene to millions of people who didn’t know about the existence of germs or why hygiene was important.
He did it by setting his company an inspiring purpose – to make cleanliness commonplace – and by using advertising to make cleanliness the new social norm.
Today Unilever is a global company, with a turnover of over €53 billion and sales in nearly every country in the world.
We make many of the world’s favourite brands, and our products are used 2 billion times a day in over half the households on the planet.
William Lever’s purpose, which seemed audacious at the time, was achieved in Britain. But across the world we face new and bigger challenges:
nearly 800 million people are without access to safe drinking water and over 2 billion without access to proper sanitation
more than 2 million children die each year from preventable diarrhoeal disease
1 in 10 adults is obese while almost 1 billion go hungry
climate change is causing extreme weather conditions and changes to the seasons
over a billion people live in water-scarce areas
demand for food is increasing to feed a growing population.
Governments struggle to agree and implement global solutions on climate change and human development. At Unilever we believe the world cannot wait, the urgency is now and that business and brands have to be part of the solution.
So we have introduced an inspiring purpose for our times: to make sustainable living commonplace.
We have made this our purpose because we believe it’s possible for 9 billion people – the world’s population 30 years from now – to live well and live within the natural limits of the planet.
And just as William Lever believed the only way to tackle poor hygiene was to make cleanliness desirable and aspirational….
…so today we believe we can only achieve the better future we all want if we make sustainable living the new social norm.
But for us to achieve our purpose, we have to develop a new way of doing business, because the old economic systems are no longer fit for purpose.
So we are developing a new business model in which:
All agricultural raw materials come from sustainable sources
People’s health and wellbeing are a priority
Farmers’ livelihoods are improved and women get a fair deal
And the planet is protected for future generations.
We see tackling these challenges not as problems to be solved but as opportunities to grow our business.
That’s why at Unilever we believe that companies which address both the needs of the environment and the concerns of citizens will prosper over the long term.
It’s this thinking that’s behind our vision, set by our Chief Executive Paul Polman, of doubling the size of our business whilst reducing our environmental footprint and increasing our positive social impact.
Our blueprint for reaching our vision is the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan.
The business case for growing a company sustainably is compelling. Consumers expect it. Retailers increasingly demand it from their suppliers. It drives innovation and market development. It saves money and avoids costs. And it inspires the people who work for our business. So this isn’t just about doing good. It’s also about doing well.
Over the past four years we’ve learned a lot about how sustainability can help us reduce costs, manage risks and drive innovation and marketing, creating a virtuous circle of growth.
For example:
Since 2008 we have avoided over €400 million in cumulative costs in our factories, and saved a further €200 million in 2014 from more eco-efficient use of materials and logistics.
Our investment in renewable energy – which now meets 28% of our energy needs – with the long-term aim of 100% renewable energy.
Our focus on sustainable sourcing is helping to future proof our supply chain against food insecurity and helping farmers adapt to climate change, the impact of which we are already seeing on our business and is costing us over €300 million a year.
Our sustainable innovations, such as laundry products that wash at lower temperatures or require less water, and compressed deodorants are growing our business around the world.
We launched our ambitious Plan in 2010. It has three big goals:
Help more than a billion people take action to improve their health and wellbeing
Halve the environmental footprint of our products
Enhance the livelihoods of millions of people in our supply chain.
Making R&D at Unilever a Design-led function, putting consumers at the heart and pulling science in, rather than a technology push.
€1 billion invested in R&D annually
Worldwide >6,000 R&D professionals
6 key R&D sites delivering ground-breaking technologies; 92 locations around the globe with R&D teams implementing innovations in countries and factories
Portfolio of more than 20,000 patents and patent applications; 300 new patent applications filed each year; Most active patent applicant in UK in 2013
In 2015, the SSG published 64 articles in peer reviewed publications.
FTE is R&D FTE
Professorships:
Shanghai: No professors as it is legally not allowed to hire Professors as FTE (only hospitals and state-owned institutes/companies)
Bangalore: Jaideep Chatterjee, Indian Institute of Guwahati, India
Port Sunlight:
David Thornthwaite , University of Reading
Adam Kowalski, University of Manchester
Anna Thomas; Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Colworth: Professorships at UK Universities
- Bob Hurling (3x): University College London + visiting prof title at Leeds University + Anglia-Ruskin University
- Jacquie de Silva, Nottingham University
- Mark Berry, Cranfield University
- Andrew Scott, Honorary Professor/Swansea University
- Henry King, University of Surrey
- Paul Carmichael , Lancaster University
- Guoping Lian , Surrey University
Colworth: Professorships at Universities outside the UK
- Alejandro Amezquita, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
- Paul Carmichael , Peking University, Beijing, China
- Guoping Lian (2x) China Agricultural University, Beijing, China + Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Vlaardingen: Professorships at Dutch Universities
- Hans-Gerd Jansen; University of Amsterdam
- John van Duynhoven; Wageningen Universiteit
- Rob Hamer; Wageningen University
- Monique Smeets, Utrecht University
Vlaardingen: Professorships at Universities outside the Netherlands
Elke Trautwein; Chrstian-Albrecht’s University in Kiel, Germany
Simeon Stoyanov (3x); Wageningen University, NL + visiting professor at University College London, UK + North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Leon Gorris; University of Shanghai, China
Not based at one of these sites, but also Professor: Jim Crilly, University of Nottingham
Working with 7 UK based universities:
Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Daresbury UK: Simulation and modelling of product and process via High Performance Computing
India Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur India: Advanced surface science and rheology
University of Liverpool, UK: High throughput Materials and formulation Science for HC and PC
Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) AMOLF, Amsterdam, NL: Predictive understanding of solids and soft solids (for relevant formats like mayo and bouillon)
Kings College London, UK: Regenerative biology (note: contract with KLC not signed yet)
Maastricht University, NL: Connecting metabolic homeostasis to consumer benefits (Foods)
Sofia University, Bulgaria: Advanced surfactant and colloid physics (e.g. foams, surfactant cleaning mechanisms)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China: Sustainable manufacture & Human Health and Safety
University of Cambridge, UK: Computational methods for material science (e.g. nanoparticles)
Manchester University, UK: process science (modelling and measurement), bioscience for scalp and hair
Indian Institute of Science, (IIS), Bangalore India: Skin biology (molecular recognition of signalling pathways)
Cranfield University, UK: Tea biology and biochemistry of natural actives
University of Nottingham, UK: Drivers for consumer perception and interaction with smart devices (e.g. smart mirrors)
Institute of Chemical Technology (CSILR-IICT), Mumbai India: Tea dissolution kinetics & novel tea processing (Refreshment)
Suppliers
BASF – surfactants, polymers, functional molecules
Dow – Polymers, functional molecules, new chassis components
Cargill – Natural ingredients from agricultural processing
Clariant – Functional chemicals, dyes, pigments
Aptar – Despensing and closures
Huhtamaki – Felxible packaging
Alpla – Bottle formats
DuPont – Food ingredients, fine chemcials, bio-technology
Friesland Campina – Dairy ingredients
Galaxy – surfactants
Kerry - Bakery and confectionery
Summit - deodorant actives
Barry Callebaut – chocolate and cocoa
Evonik – Surfactants, fine chemicals
Symrise, Givaudan, IFF, Firmenich – Flavour and fragrance
Ingredion – Starch based ingredients
Novozymes – Enzymes and bio-actives
DSM – Nutrition, enzymes and bio-sourced ingredients
Working with 7 UK based universities:
Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Daresbury UK: Simulation and modelling of product and process via High Performance Computing
India Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur India: Advanced surface science and rheology
University of Liverpool, UK: High throughput Materials and formulation Science for HC and PC
Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) AMOLF, Amsterdam, NL: Predictive understanding of solids and soft solids (for relevant formats like mayo and bouillon)
Kings College London, UK: Regenerative biology (note: contract with KLC not signed yet)
Maastricht University, NL: Connecting metabolic homeostasis to consumer benefits (Foods)
Sofia University, Bulgaria: Advanced surfactant and colloid physics (e.g. foams, surfactant cleaning mechanisms)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China: Sustainable manufacture & Human Health and Safety
University of Cambridge, UK: Computational methods for material science (e.g. nanoparticles)
Manchester University, UK: process science (modelling and measurement), bioscience for scalp and hair
Indian Institute of Science, (IIS), Bangalore India: Skin biology (molecular recognition of signalling pathways)
Cranfield University, UK: Tea biology and biochemistry of natural actives
University of Nottingham, UK: Drivers for consumer perception and interaction with smart devices (e.g. smart mirrors)
Institute of Chemical Technology (CSILR-IICT), Mumbai India: Tea dissolution kinetics & novel tea processing (Refreshment)
Suppliers
BASF – surfactants, polymers, functional molecules
Dow – Polymers, functional molecules, new chassis components
Cargill – Natural ingredients from agricultural processing
Clariant – Functional chemicals, dyes, pigments
Aptar – Despensing and closures
Huhtamaki – Felxible packaging
Alpla – Bottle formats
DuPont – Food ingredients, fine chemcials, bio-technology
Friesland Campina – Dairy ingredients
Galaxy – surfactants
Kerry - Bakery and confectionery
Summit - deodorant actives
Barry Callebaut – chocolate and cocoa
Evonik – Surfactants, fine chemicals
Symrise, Givaudan, IFF, Firmenich – Flavour and fragrance
Ingredion – Starch based ingredients
Novozymes – Enzymes and bio-actives
DSM – Nutrition, enzymes and bio-sourced ingredients
€1 billion invested in R&D annually
Worldwide >6,000 R&D professionals
6 key R&D sites delivering ground-breaking technologies; 92 locations around the globe with R&D teams implementing innovations in countries and factories
Portfolio of more than 20,000 patents and patent applications; 300 new patent applications filed each year; Most active patent applicant in UK in 2013
In 2015, the SSG published 64 articles in peer reviewed publications.