Tag: Unilever

New partnership to investigate alternative raw materials in cleansing products

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever and Nufarm, a global agriculture innovator, have announced a strategic partnership which enables the technical development and future commercialisation of a ‘crop of the future’. The project aims to cultivate crops with significant biomass to produce sustainable oils. The oil will be a source of fatty acids – a core base ingredient for Unilever’s laundry detergents and beauty and personal care products. Typically, plant oils like sunflower and canola oil are produced in the seeds and fruits; the breakthrough of this technology is that the ‘biomass oil’ (an oil…

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Knorr launches paper wrapper innovation for its popular stock cube range

Stuart Mitchell

Knorr, the nation’s favourite stock brand[a], is launching a new paper wrapper in the UK. The move to making the wrapper recyclable started with the brand’s most popular variant, its Chicken SKU. Following a successful pilot in Tesco, the brand will now roll out the new packaging across its wider core stock cube range, beginning with its Fish and Lamb SKUs in August, with the rest of the core range following across all retailers in September. Following years of innovation and development, the individual stock cube wrappers will move from…

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The CIRCLE Alliance: scaling packaging circularity to reduce plastic waste

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever has joined USAID and EY to launch the CIRCLE Alliance, a new public–private initiative aimed at tackling plastic pollution. Read how such collaborations are crucial in responding to the urgent need for collective action. The CIRCLE Alliance is a new $21 million public–private collaboration to scale solutions that reduce plastic use and tackle plastic waste Founded by Unilever, USAID and EY, the CIRCLE Alliance will support entrepreneurs and small businesses across the plastics value chain Its goal is to support women’s economic empowerment, improve livelihoods and protect the environment…

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Unilever in the UK publishes 2023 Gender Pay Report

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever have published their gender pay results for the seventh year, in line with the government’s Gender Pay regulations introduced in April 2017. As required by government regulation for gender pay reporting, more detailed figures from our two main employing entities in the UK have been published. These are Unilever UK Limited, representing our UK specific operations, including factories, and Unilever UK Central Resources Limited, representing our global functions based in the UK and primarily reflecting our central office and research labs. We’ve also chosen to share overall ‘Unilever in…

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Unilever launches first UK regenerative agriculture project with British farmers

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever has launched its first regenerative agriculture project in the UK, working with farms that grow mustard seeds and mint leaves used in Colman’s products. This is the latest regenerative agriculture project from Unilever, building on global programmes that have seen the adoption of Unilever’s Regenerative Agriculture Principles (PDF 8.34 MB) to grow ingredients in Hellmann’s and Knorr products in the United States, France, Spain, Argentina and Italy. Globally, through the Climate & Nature Fund, Unilever have an ambitious roadmap in place to invest in regenerative agriculture practices on 1.5 million hectares of land…

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