Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is India's largest consumer goods company

based in Mumbai,Maharashtra. It is owned by the British-Dutch company Unilever

which controls 52% majority stake in HUL. Its products include foods, beverages,
cleaning agents and personal care products .
In 2007, Hindustan Unilever was rated as the most respected company in India for the
past 25 years by Business world.

HUL is the market leader in Indian consumer products with presence in over 20

consumer categories. It has over 35 brands.

The company has a distribution channel of 6.3 million outlets.

HUL has the largest number of brands in the Most

Trusted Brand List.

Formed in 1933 as Lever Brothers India Limited.

It came into being in 1956 as Hindustan Lever Limited through a merger of

Lever Brothers(Hindustan Vanaspati Mfg. Co.Ltd. and United Traders Ltd)

The company was renamed in June 2007to Hindustan Unilever Limited
Its products include foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care

products.
Hindustan Unilever Limited has over 35 brands spanning 20 distinct
categories.
As per market research data, two out of three Indians use HUL products.

ORGANISATION STRUCTURE
Board Of Directors
Mr.Harish Manwani
Non-Executive Chairman

Mr. Sridhar
Ramamurthy
Executive Director,
Finance & IT and Chief
Financial Officer

Mr. Nitin Paranjpe

Managing Director
and Chief Executive
Officer

Mr. Pradeep
Banerjee Executive
Director, Supply
Chain

Mr. Aditya Narayan

Independent Director

Dr. Sanjiv Misra

Independent Director

Mr. S. Ramadorai
Independent Director

Mr. O. P. Bhatt
Independent
Director

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.

MISSION OF THE COMPANY

Unilever's mission
Is
TO ADD VITALITY TO LIFE

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

Food
Tea
Brook Bond
Lipton
Foods
Kissan
Knorr
Annapurna
Coffee
Bru

Ice Cream
Kwality walls

Personal Care

Personal Wash
Lux
Lifebuoy
Liril
Hamam
Breeze
Dove
Pears
Rexona
Skin Care
Fair & Lovely
Ponds

Hair Care
Sunsilk
Naturals
Clinic
Oral Care
Pepsodent
Close-up
Deodorant
Axe
Rexona
Cosmetics
Lakme

Laundry

Surf Excel
Rin
Wheel

Water Treatment

PureIt

Innovation
In their scientific innovation to meet consumer needs they
will respect the concerns of their consumers and society.They will
work on the basis of sound science applying rigorous standards of
product safety.

MERGERS &ACQUISITIONS
MERGERS:
THE ERSTWHILE TATA OIL MILLS COMPANY(TOMCO) IN
1ST APRIL,1993

BROOKE BOND LIPTON INDIA LIMITED(BBLIL) IN

1ST JANUARY,1996

PONDS (INDIA) LIMITED(PIL) IN 1998

ACQUISITIONS:
BROOKE BOND IN 1984
LIPTON IN 1972
PONDS(INDIA) LIMITED IN 1986
LAKME LIMITED
50:50 JOINT VENTURE WITH US BASED
KIMBERLY CLARK CORPORATION IN 1994

MODERN FOODS IN 2002

CONTROVERSIES
Mercury pollution
In 2001, a thermometer factory in Kodaikanal run by Hindustan Unilever was
accused of dumping glass contaminated with mercury in municipal dumps, or
selling it on to scrap merchants unable to deal with it appropriately.

Skin lightening creams

Hindustan Unilever's "Fair and Lovely" is the leading skin-lightening cream for
women in India. The company had to cease television advertisements for the
product in 2007. Advertisements depicted depressed, dark-complexioned
women, who had been ignored by employers and men, suddenly finding new
boyfriends and glamorous careers after the cream had lightened their skin. In
2008 Hindustan Unilever made former Miss World Priyanka Chopra a brand
ambassador for Pond's, and she then appeared in a mini-series of television
commercials for another skin lightening product, 'White Beauty', alongside Saif
Ali Khan and Neha Dhupia; these advertisements, showing Priyanka's face
with a clearly darker complexion against the visibly fairer Neha Dhupia, were
widely criticized for perpetuating racism and lowering the self-esteem of women
and girls throughout India who were misled by HUNL to believe that they
needed to be white to be beautiful