Unilever
First half performance supports full year confidence
31 Jul 2025
Unilever announces its first half results for 2025. View further detail.
The time is now for a UN plastic pollution treaty
28 Jul 2025
A UN treaty to end plastic pollution could be agreed over the coming weeks as the final negotiations take place in Geneva. Here’s what to expect from the talks.
How Magnum’s premiumisation and culture-first strategy are fuelling growth
28 Jul 2025
From premium products to moments in culture, find out how Magnum is leveraging social media insights to understand what Gen Z consumers want.
How talent and technology are boosting factory performance and productivity
22 Jul 2025
Unilever earns global praise for frontline team excellence, driving innovation, productivity and waste reduction across its factories
Vaseline Verified: meet the myth-busting scientists behind Unilever’s award-winning campaign
22 Jul 2025
Delivering double-digit growth: unpacking Knorr Mexico’s strategy
22 Jul 2025
Discover how Knorr Mexico transformed from a legacy brand into a Gen Z favorite using social-first campaigns, influencer marketing, and brand storytelling.
Vaseline’s social-first marketing: beauty hacks, consumer insights and cultural relevancy
16 Jul 2025
Unilever Power Brand Vaseline is winning growth by engaging with new audiences through viral moments and smart social-first campaigns. Here’s how.
Wall’s launches limited-edition Minecraft ice cream to target gamers
10 Jul 2025
Wall’s has partnered with Minecraft to launch an ice cream. It taps into a 30% hike in users since A Minecraft Movie and 80% of gamers who eat while they play.
Unilever Food Solutions innovation disrupts €4.2bn China soy sauce market
10 Jul 2025
Unilever Food Solutions launches a premium soy sauce for chefs in China – blending R&D expertise, local insight and culinary innovation to lead the market.
Leveraging social insights and technology to meet changing consumer behaviours
02 Jul 2025
Unilever’s Consumer Technology VP explains how we’re adopting a social-first approach by leveraging AI and technology to drive growth.
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
