CSR practices of Unilever

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CSR practices of Unilever

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2. Methodology: Analysis of recourses & company’s data Analysis of case study
3. About the company: 3rd largest consumer products company 169 000 employees Stakeholders include consumers, employees, investors,
4. Unilever brands (400):
5. History of the company: In the early 1870s, at the Netherlands, Jurgens and Van den Bergh
6. CSR practices of Unilever Positive Alternative ways of testing products Program “perfect villages,” (1,000 rural communities
7. Why? The goal was to double revenues from $40 billion to $80 billion Oxfam’s findings, published
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Methodology:
Analysis of recourses & company’s data
Analysis of case study

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About the company:
3rd largest consumer products company
169 000 employees
Stakeholders include consumers,

employees, investors, suppliers, and communities
Main focus of CSR - climate change; food security; water, sanitation & hygiene

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Unilever brands (400):

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History of the company:
In the early 1870s, at the Netherlands, Jurgens

and Van den Bergh become interested in a new product made from beef fat and milk – margarine (1898 – Vitello)
1884 - Lever & Co starts producing Sunlight soap (1890 - Lever Brothers Ltd.)
1886 - Knorr launches soup tablets with meat extract
1904 - Lever Brothers launch Vim, one of the first scouring powders
1913 - Leading businesses in Europe join forces to create the Whale Oil Pool
1927 - Jurgens and Van den Bergh create Margarine Unie - the Margarine Union
1929 - Lever Brothers and Margarine Unie sign an agreement to create Unilever

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CSR practices of Unilever
Positive
Alternative ways of testing products
Program “perfect villages,” (1,000

rural communities promotes products through programs around hygiene)
In 2008 - “handwashing day” in more than 50 countries
Meet high standards (In 2016 Unilever updated its palm oil sourcing policy)

Negative

600 workers in India over mercury exposure from a now closed thermometer plant
Abuses of workers on Unilever’s Kenyan estate, including sexual harassment and poor housing conditions
Unilever is accused of failing to declare zero tolerance against land grabs, crushing poverty and exploitation of women farmers and agricultural workers.

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Why?
The goal was to double revenues from $40 billion to $80

billion
Oxfam’s findings, published in 2013, showed that factories routinely ignored Unilever’s stated principles, including Polman’s dictate of paying workers decently
So even it was promised not to use palm oil from cleared forests, company was not able to stop the deforestation