Unilever
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.
How premiumisation is powering growth for Unilever’s beauty brands
30 Jun 2025
What is premiumisation? What do we mean by masstige? How do they grow our brands? Unilever Beauty & Wellbeing’s Chief Marketing Officer Leandro Barreto answers.
Marketing has entered a new era
30 Jun 2025
Esi Eggleston Bracey, Unilever’s Chief Growth and Marketing Officer, discusses how we’re transforming our approach to marketing to deliver Desire at Scale.
Protecting nature at scale: Unilever’s progress on implementing regenerative agriculture
20 Jun 2025
Unilever reveals its progress in implementing regenerative agriculture at scale, working with partners to restore nature and build more resilient supply chains.
Unilever scientists discover link between skin microbiome and mental wellbeing
30 May 2025
Unilever’s latest research explores how the skin microbiome impacts mental wellbeing, paving the way for microbiome-targeted skincare innovations
Unilever uncovers link between skin microbiome and mental wellbeing for the first time
27 May 2025
Research by Unilever, the Microbiome Innovation Centre and the Brain & Behaviour Lab, University of Liverpool, unveils skin microbiome and mental wellbeing link
Unilever’s 100+ Accelerator partnership unlocks AI innovation across supply chain
15 May 2025
100+ Accelerator matches FMCGs and startups to pilot supply chain solutions. Read how AI transformed liquid systems at our Poznan factory to save €100,000/year.
What’s behind Unilever’s first-quarter results?
28 Apr 2025
A quick look at the brands, categories and innovations driving our underlying sales growth for the first quarter of 2025.
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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
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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?
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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
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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.
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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.
