Unilever
The challenges of using recycled plastic and how we’re responding
19 Dec 2025
At Unilever, we’re working to reduce our virgin plastic footprint by scaling up our use of post-consumer recycled plastic, known as PCR
Unilever marketing leadership change
18 Dec 2025
Unilever announces changes to accelerate its global marketing transformation by bringing its enterprise-wide marketing agenda closer to its Business Groups.
Lifebuoy’s evolution: from germ protection to science-backed skin health
16 Dec 2025
Unilever’s Lifebuoy, the original germ-protection soap brand, is transforming itself to offer science-backed skin protection that strengthens the skin barrier.
Top takeaways from Unilever CEO’s interview with JP Morgan
15 Dec 2025
Unilever CEO Fernando Fernandez interview with JP Morgan’s Celine Pannuti covers everything from SASSY brands to premiumisation to key growth opportunities.
Knorr’s campaign for Gen Z daters drives Desire at Scale
24 Nov 2025
For 93% of Gen Z, cooking is the ultimate green flag on a dating profile. Discover how Knorr used this insight in a social-first influencer campaign.
How Rexona turned sports partnerships into marketing gold (and growth)
18 Nov 2025
Rexona’s Global Engagement Director shares how the brand has built one of the most authentic sports partnership programmes in the game.
How AI is transforming Unilever’s Personal Care business
10 Nov 2025
AI is delivering superior innovation, execution and decision-making across our Personal Care business.
COP30: Unilever calls for governments to unlock sustainable business growth
10 Nov 2025
COP30 is a chance to raise global ambition and boost real-world delivery. Unilever’s calling for stronger national climate plans to support business priorities.
Science, sensorials and the skinification trend sparking growth for Lux
30 Oct 2025
Unilever’s Lux Power Brand is winning new Gen Z fans with innovative premium lines that deliver both pleasure and performance.
Broad-based growth, on track for full year outlook
23 Oct 2025
Unilever announces its third quarter results for 2025. View the details.
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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
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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?
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.
