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2. OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY
 INCORPORATED: 1933
 INDUSTRY: CONSUMER GOODS.
 HEADQUARTERS: MUMBAI ,MAHARASHTRA.
 KEY PEOPLE: HARISH MANWANI(CHARIMAN)
NITIN PARANJE(MD & CEO)
 TURNOVER: 25,206 CRS.
 PEOPLE: 16000 EMPLOYEES INCLUDING 1500
MANAGERS.
 PARENTAGE: PART OF 44.3 BILLION EUROS OF
UNILEVER GROUP.
 REACH: 6.4 MILLION RETAIL OUTLETS.
 R&D CENTRES: MUMBAI & BANGALORE, INDIA.

3. INTRODUCTION
 Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is the largest FMCG
company in India.
 It is owned by the British-Dutch company “Unilever” and
has about 52% majority stake in Hindustan Unilever
Limited .
 Its products include foods, beverages, cleaning agents and
personal care products.
 It is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
 Hindustan Unilever Limited has over 35 brands spanning
20 distinct categories.
 As per Nielsen market research data, two out of three
Indians use HUL products.

4. Hindustan Unilever
– a 75 year history

5. HISTORY AND BACKGROUND
Hindustan Unilever Limited was established in 1933 as
Lever Brothers India Limited by Lever Brothers.
In 1956, it became known as Hindustan Lever Limited, as a
result of a merger between Lever Brothers, Hindustan
Vanaspati Mfg. Co. Ltd. and United Traders Ltd.
The company was renamed in June 2007 as “Hindustan
Unilever Limited”.
Lever Brothers first commenced operations in India in the
summer of 1888, when crates full of Sunlight soap bars,
embossed with the words "Made in England by Lever
Brothers" were shipped to the Kolkata harbour and it began
an era of marketing branded Fast Moving Consumer Goods
(FMCG).

6. VISION OF THE COMPANY
The four pillars of our vision set out the long term direction for
the company – where we want to go and how we are going to get
there:
 We work to create a better future every day
 We help people feel good, look good and get more out of life
with brands and services that are good for them and good for
others.
 We will inspire people to take small everyday actions that can
add up to a big difference for the world.
 We will develop new ways of doing business with the aim of
doubling the size of our company while reducing our
environmental impact.
To earn the love and respect of India, by making a real
difference to every Indian.

7. MISSION OF THE COMPANY
Unilever's mission
Is
“TO ADD VITALITY TO LIFE”

8. ACQUISITIONS:
BROOKE BOND IN 1984
LIPTON IN 1972
LAKME LIMITED
50:50 JOINT VENTURE WITH US BASED KIMBERLY
CLARK CORPORATION IN 1994
MODERN FOODS IN 2002
POND’S(INDIA) LIMITED IN 1986

9. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
 In 2012, HUL was recognized as one of the worlds most innovative
companies by Forbes. With a ranking of number 6, it was the highest
ranked FMCG company
 Hindustan Unilever Limited won 13 awards at the Emvies 2012 Media
Awards organized by the Advertising Club Bombay in September 2012
 In July, 2012 Hindustan Unilever Limited won the Golden Peacock
Occupational Health and Safety Award for 2012 in the FMCG category
for its safety and health initiatives and continuous improvement on key
metrics.
 As per the latest Nielsen Campus Track-Business School Survey
released in February 2013, Hindustan Unilever Limited has emerged as
the No.1 employer of choice for B-School students who will graduate in
2013, across functions. HUL also retained the 'Dream Employer' status
for the 4th year running and continues to be the top company
considered for application by B-School student in India

10. Board Of Directors
Mr.Harish Manwani
Non-Executive Chairman
Mr. Nitin Paranjpe
Managing Director and
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Sridhar Ramamurthy
Executive Director, Finance
& IT and Chief Financial
Officer
Mr. Pradeep Banerjee
Executive Director,
Supply Chain
ORGANISATION STRUCTURE

11. Mr. Aditya Narayan
Independent Director
Mr. S. Ramadorai
Independent Director
Mr. O. P. Bhatt
Independent Director
Dr. Sanjiv Misra
Independent Director

12. BRANDS
HUL is the market leader in Indian consumer products
with presence in over 20 consumer categories such as
soaps, tea, detergents and shampoos amongst others with
over 700 million Indian consumers using its products
The company has a distribution channel of 6.4 million
outlets and owns 35 major Indian brands. Its brands
include:
 Food and Drink brand
 Personal Care brand
 Home Care brand
 Water Purifier brand

13. FOOD AND DRINK BRAND

15. PERSONAL CARE BRAND

17. HOMECARE BRANDS

19. WATER PURIFIER BRAND

21. SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Unilever launched Sustainable Living Plan in on 15th
November 2010 at London, Rotterdam, New York
and New Delhi simultaneously.
The Unilever Sustainable Living Plan has three major
goals, which Unilever aims to achieve by 2020:
 Help more than one billion people improve their
health and well-being
 Halve the environmental impact of their products
 Source 100% of their agricultural raw materials
sustainably

22. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Providing education on health and hygiene
Women empowerment
Water management
Rehabilitation of special or underprivileged children
Care for the destitute and HIV-positive
Rural development.
Plays active role in natural calamities

23.  Lifebuoy Swasthya Chetana - Health & Hygiene
 Shakti – Empowerment of women through micro-enterprise Opportunity
 Yashodadham - Relief and Reconstruction in Gujarat's Kutch district
 Asha Daan - Happy Home actively supported by HUL

24. At Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), we have always believed in an
approach of doing business which we call “doing well by doing good”. Project
Shakti is a rural distribution initiative that targets small villages. The project
benefits HUL by enhancing its direct rural reach and also creates livelihood
opportunities for underprivileged rural women. Shakti is our initiative that
combines social responsibility, sustainability, and business strategy. Shakti
model is very strong and sustainable because it is the best way we can give it
back to the society through supporting our cause of ' empowering
underprivileged rural women' along with making business sense.
Shakti started with 17 women in two states. Today, it provides livelihood
enhancing opportunities to about 45,000 women in 15 Indian states and
provides access to quality products across 100,000+ villages and over 3 million
households every month .
PROJECT SHAKTI