Tag: Unilever

Startups and scaleups invited to partner on Unilever’s sustainable beauty solutions

Stuart Mitchell

The Unilever Foundry, Unilever’s collaborative innovation network, has launched a new entrepreneurial challenge focused on sustainable beauty solutions, through the Positive Beauty Growth Platform. Unilever is searching for the very best startups, scaleups and academic spinouts to partner with our teams to bring brilliant functional ingredients that work with nature to our Beauty & Personal Care products and packaging. The Positive Beauty Growth Platform was launched last year to support Unilever’s Positive Beauty vision – an industry-leading series of progressive commitments and actions for our Beauty & Personal Care brands,…

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Unilever to set new benchmark for Healthy Nutrition

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever has announced that it will be the first global Foods company to publicly report the performance of its product portfolio against at least six different government-endorsed Nutrient Profile Models (NPM) as well as its own Highest Nutritional Standards (HNS). Unilever will publish the assessment on an annual basis both globally and for 16 key strategic markets and will report its performance both by volume of product and by sales revenue. Its first report will be published by October 2022. The move comes following extensive, constructive engagement with ShareAction and…

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Unilever introduce paper tubs for Carte D’Or ice cream

Stuart Mitchell

In the UK, Unilever are changing the tubs and lids across their entire range of Carte D’Or ice cream from plastic to responsibly sourced, recyclable paper. The move will see the brand use 93% less plastic per pack (compared to our previous Carte D’Or packaging) and is set to save over 900 tons of virgin plastic in the UK annually.1 That’s a weight equivalent to almost five Boeing 747s. The paper they’re using comes from sustainably managed forests and controlled sources and is PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest…

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Unilever and Holobiome to uncover ingredients that could improve wellbeing

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever has partnered with the gut microbiome experts at Holobiome to identify food and drink ingredients that could have a positive impact on mental wellbeing by targeting the gut-brain axis. There is increasing awareness of the importance of the gut microbiome – the trillions of microbes that live inside us – and the critical role it plays in our overall health and wellbeing. Many scientists now consider the gut microbiome an essential organ with 70% of the immune system existing in the gut1, and 90% of the body’s mood elevating…

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World-leading research will pave the way for mainstream re-use and refill shopping in UK supermarkets

Stuart Mitchell

Global NGO WRAP is working with UK Plastics Pact members, Asda and Unilever, in a world-first research project to understand how to change the ingrained shopping habits which might be preventing customers from using refill stations and reusable packaging as part of their regular weekly shop. The in-depth research, which is being co-funded by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency will involve closely following shoppers as they plan at home, engage in-store, and how they decant and store products once back at home.  The aim is to gain a deeper…

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