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Unilever is a leading supplier of fast-moving consumer goods that are sold in over 190 countries. Its purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace. The Unilever Sustainable Living Plan aims to help more than 1 billion people improve their health and well-being, halve the environmental impact of its products, and source 100% of agricultural raw materials sustainably by 2020. Unilever forms global partnerships to achieve these goals and create transformational change on unmet health needs.
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- 1. ABOUT UNILEVER & UNILEVER PARTNERSHIPS KATJA FREIWALD, DIRECTOR PARTNERSHIPS
- 2. • About Unilever • Unilever Foundation and Partnerships UNILEVER FOUNDATION & PARTNERSHIPS
- 3. ABOUT UNILEVER Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast-moving consumer goods. Our products are sold in over 190 countries and used by 2 billion consumers every day.
- 4. BUSINESS WITH PURPOSE Our purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace. We work to create a better future every day, with brands and services that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life. Our first priority is to our consumers – then customers, employees, suppliers and communities. When we fulfil our responsibilities to them, we believe that our shareholders will be rewarded.
- 5. OUR COMPASS STRATEGY Our vision is to double the size of the business, whilst reducing our environmental footprint and increasing our positive social impact. The Compass provides a blueprint for success by identifying what we must do to win share and grow volume in every category and country.
- 6. FAST FACTS - 2013 €1 BILLION INVESTED IN R&D WORLDWIDE 190 COUNTRIES IN WHICH OUR PRODUCTS ARE SOLD TURNOVER OF €49.8 BILLION AT END OF 2013 EMPLOYEES AT THE END OF THE YEAR 174,000 EMERGING MARKETS NOW REPRESENT 57% OF TURNOVER
- 7. OUR BUSINESS MODEL OUR BRANDS Strong brands and innovation are central to our ambition to double in size. OUR OPERATIONS We aim to develop innovative products that address different consumer needs at different price points. OUR PEOPLE Sustainable, profitable growth can only be achieved with the right people working in an organisation that is fit to win. SUSTAINABLE LIVING The differentiator in our business model is our Sustainable Living Plan and the goal of sustainable living.
- 8. THE UNILEVER SUSTAINABLE LIVING PLAN We have long been working and reporting on our impact on society and the environment. Our Sustainable Living Plan brings together all this work and sets many new targets. Our Sustainable Living Plan will result in three significant outcomes by 2020. 1. We will help more than 1 billion people take action to improve their health and well-being. 2. We will halve the environmental impact of the making and use of our products. 3. We will source 100% of agricultural raw materials sustainably. HELP 1 BILLION PEOPLE IMPROVE THEIR HEALTH & WELL-BEING HALVE ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OF OUR PRODUCTS SOURCE 100% OF AGRICULTURAL RAW MATERIALS SUSTAINABLY
- 11. GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS • To develop strategic partnerships that help achieve our Compass goal – positive social impact as our business grows • To create transformational change on unmet health & well-being needs that our business can play a unique role in helping to solve and drive reputation Unilever Foundation Emerging Opportunities Market Development /Procurement & In-kind Emergency Response
- 14. Unilever Sustainable Living Plan: Three big goals PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMMES 2013 KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS 16.5 Million Lives Positively Impacted Improved Access to Sanitation & WASH Access to Health Workers & Other Health Programmes School Meals & PLB • €3.4 million • 2.1 million people impacted across 11 countries • New/increased support: Brazil Indonesia, & France • • €2.8 million • 2.6 million people impacted across 3 countries • Transition from PLB to multi-layered partnership Poverty Relief & Women’s Empowerment Safe Drinking Water & Handwashing • €5 million • 1.5 million+ beneficiaries across 5 countries via Every One • Local Progammes across 14 countries • €220k+ • 1 million + people reached across 3 countries • €650k • 500k+ meals distributed • 100k lives positively impacted across 6 beneficiary countries
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- .In this respect we work with 5 global partners delivering on different areas, such as hygiene, sanitation, nutrition ….. This is contributing as well to the USLP targets in the area of Improving Health & Well Being as well as Enhancing Livelihoods In an effort to align our giving, we have formed multi-faceted partnerships with five leading global organizations [Read partner names with one sentence about what we support]. Through these partnerships, we provide direct funding, expertise, and/or products designed to address some of the most critical challenges of the 21st century. UNICEF: Community Approaches to Total Sanitation – Est. 2.5BB people live without access to sanitation. CATS aims to get 600k people living open-defecation free across 9 countries. [CATS is in 54 Countries and reaches an est 25 million people] Save the Children: 3-year commitment to the EveryOne Campaign. Support for training health workers and provide vaccines to children. 2.5 million children will be reached over 3 years. PSI [$700 million organization dedicated to improving health in D&E. Focus areas: HIV/Aids, Maternal Health , Disease that impacts Children under 5, eg: Diarrhea, Malaria, Malnutrition; programmes in 69 countries]: WaterWorks: Partnership between Unilever, PSI, & Facebook designed to provide safe drinking water to communities. Through the online FB application, consumers can donate about 13 cents/day which goes to pay for the training & salary of the WW. Goal is to train 75 Water Workers and distribute 15k water purifiers. Goal achieved by March 1. 16,182 subscribers have sponsored a Water Worker but we’veonly raised approx €36k. School of Five Handwashing: Working with PSI on running handwashing programmes in Zimbabwe and Kenya which will reach 1.2 million children. And the challenge that faces North America is how do we leverage these partners in a way that benefits Unilever’s U.S. business? Additional Information WFP: Supporting Project Laser Beam which is an initiative in partnership designed to produce a scalable model to improve nutrition, hygiene, health and livelihoods. W Oxfam: NGO with a focus on fighting poverty. Support is going to 8 countries [UK/Ireland/Austaila/New Zealand/ Cote D’Ivoire/Mexico/Thailand/Kenya]. Our support goes towards delivery of clean, safe drinking water, good nutrition, helping to train female farmers and uplift them out of poverty, and provide people with clean toilets and sanitation.