Inside Unilever: The Evolving Transnational Connpany by Floris A. Maljers The story behind one worldwide company’s flexible organization-and the managers who make it so successful. These days‚ Unilever is often described as one of the foremost transnational companies. Yet our organization of diverse operations around the world is not the outcome of a conscious effort to become what is now known among academics as a transnational. When Unilever was founded in 1930 as a Dutch-British company
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com/reports/575444/ Premium Company Profile: Unilever plc. Description: Introduction Unilever has simplified its organizational structure with a sharp focus on key brands and categories. The company concentrates on delivering health‚ hygiene and nutritional benefits to consumers all over the world. The focus on brand building and innovation has helped the company to sustain its leadership position in the overall health and hygiene category. Scope Contains corporate strategy‚ value chain presence and SWOT Analysis
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Features of Hindustan Unilever Ltd Type Public company Traded as BSE: 500696 BSE SENSEX Constituent Industry Consumer goods Founded 1932 Headquarters Mumbai‚ Maharashtra‚ India Key people Harish Manwani (Chairman)‚Nitin Paranjpe (CEO and MD) Products Foods‚ beverages‚ cleaning agents and personal care products Revenue 22116 crore (US$3.4 billion) (2011–2012) Net income 2691 crore (US$410 million) (2011–2012) Employees 16‚500 (2011) Parent Unilever Plc (67%) Website
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Procter & Gamble Procter & Gamble. (n.d.). Retrieved February 22‚ 2012‚ from Mahalo.com: http://www.mahalo.com/procter-and-gamble/ Procter and Gamble Sunsilk. (n.d.). Retrieved February 22‚ 2012‚ from Unilever: http://www.unileverpakistan.com.pk/brands/personalcarebrands/sunsilk.aspx Unilever Company History Official Website of Pantene. (n.d.) Retrieved February 22‚ 2012‚ from http://www.pantene.com/en-US/pages/index.aspx Appendix B (questionnaire)
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U 2011 Unilever in India: Hindustan Lever’s Project Shakti- Marketing FMCG to the Rural Consumer Riddhi Biswas PGP/14/236 Section E Q1. What are the key features of Shakti? What are its positive aspects and what are its drawbacks? Key features of Shakti: Axiomatic truly ‚ ‘Rural caravan’ of HUL as it can be popularly called is Project Shakti. Untapped and unexplored for years Indian rural market remain unnoticed and undiscovered as par as the business opportunities‚ especially
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TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 I. COMPANY ANALYSIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 a. Mission objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 b. Company
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What strategy was Unilever pursuing before its early 1990s reorganization? What kind of structure did the company have? Were Unilever’s strategy and structure consistent with each other? What were the benefits of this strategy and structure? What were the drawbacks? For decades‚ Unilever managed its worldwide detergents activities in an arm’s length manner. A subsidiary was set up in each major national market and allowed to operate largely autonomously‚ with each subsidiary carrying out the
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Case Study : Fighting for the next billion shoppers The eternal battle between Procter & Gamble and Unilever Jun 30th 2012 A TRIP to Paris is not usually a miserable way to celebrate your birthday‚ but so it was this year for Bob McDonald. On June 20th‚ as he turned 59‚ the chief executive of Procter & Gamble (P&G) for the past three years gave a faltering and apologetic speech at a conference there hosted by Deutsche Bank‚ in which he predicted lower-than-expected profits in the coming
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A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy By Dina Gerdeman 28 MAY 2012 RESEARCH & IDEAS : http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6994.html Abstract: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a corporate initiative to assess and take responsibility for the company ’s effects on the environment and impact on social welfare. CSR may also be referred to as "corporate citizenship" and can involve incurring short-term costs that do not provide an immediate financial benefit
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rCorporate social responsibility Improving health and wellbeing Unilever are aiming to increase access to basic sanitation‚ hygiene and nutrition programmes for millions of children across South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa as part of their Sustainable Living Plan[2] goal to improve the health and wellbeing of 1 billion people by 2020. This will help the UN achieve its global target to reduce under-5 deaths by 2015. They are committed to changing the hygiene habits of one billion people‚ bringing
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