The food business of Hindustan Unilever (HUL), the country’s largest consumer goods company, shrank sharply during the last financial year…READ MORE
KEEP READINGParent Unilever’s decision to merge Hindustan Unilever’s food, refreshment divisions follows a failed takeover bid by rival Kraft Heinz…READ MORE
KEEP READINGWhile giants such as Tata and Hindustan Unilever sell tea to the majority, startups are trying to create a market, both in India and abroad, for home-grown brands from estates in Darjeeling, Assam and the Nilgiris…READ MORE
KEEP READINGHindustan Unilever is a very well-run company. There is no question about it. But there is a lot of money especially from foreign investors, which seems to be hiding in that area…READ MORE
KEEP READINGHindustan Unilever will send some of its mid-level executives to work at startups, an initiative it hopes will help instill an entrepreneurial mindset and agility among key employees at a time when small but nimble companies are increasingly disrupting large businesses…READ MORE
KEEP READINGVolume sales of top consumer products makers such as Hindustan Unilever and Dabur hardly picked up in the quarter ended September, making it one of the worst in more than a decade for the industry even as consumers across rural and urban markets remained close-fisted…READ MORE
KEEP READINGHindustan Unilever has pruned its reporting layers to make divisional heads report directly to their respective global function heads at parent Unilever’s London headquarters…READ MORE
KEEP READINGFor Hindustan Unilever, the way to a steaming hot cup of tea could well be through Kamathipura Mumbai’s red-light district. In an effort to break a social stigma, the country’s largest consumer goods company has roped in a commercial sex worker to feature in an upcoming advertisement for Brooke Bond, capturing her experience with unassuming office-goers over a cup of tea…READ MORE
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