Unilever
Accelerating the shift to net zero in India’s chemicals industry
27 Mar 2025
How Home Care in India is lowering emissions with chemical ingredients made from renewable and recycled feedstocks and working to drive industry change.
South American and Asian cuisines lead UFS menu trends book
20 Mar 2025
The Unilever Food Solutions Future Menus research helps chefs take trending South American and Asian cuisine from concept to creation.
Unilever to sell The Vegetarian Butcher to Vivera
20 Mar 2025
Unilever has today announced that it has received a binding offer from Vivera to acquire The Vegetarian Butcher.
Unilever reinvents product shoots with AI for faster content creation
19 Mar 2025
AI is helping Unilever Marketing teams create product imagery faster. Discover how digital twin technology is evolving our approach to content.
Unilever reinvents product shoots with digital twins and AI
19 Mar 2025
Unilever reinvents its product shoots to meet the growing demand for content.
The success of Wonder Wash: our biggest Home Care launch
28 Feb 2025
Discover how Wonder Wash’s patented technology, global marketing success and sustainability focus have made it a game-changer in the laundry detergent market.
Unilever solar electricity deal powers renewable energy use in India
26 Feb 2025
Unilever partners with collaborative manufacturers in India to tackle climate change and increase renewable energy use, through a joint power purchase agreement
Unilever Board update
25 Feb 2025
Unilever announces Hein Schumacher is stepping down as CEO and as a Board Director on 1 March 2025, and will leave the company on 31 May 2025.
Improved performance led by volume growth and gross margin expansion
13 Feb 2025
Unilever announces its results for the full year 2024. View further detail.
Unilever is testing refill solutions to tackle plastic waste
09 Feb 2025
Unilever’s run more than 50 refill and reuse pilots, gaining insights to help build our strategy for reducing virgin plastic use and tackling single-use sachets
Featured
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.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
