icLiverpool (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
THE FUTURE of the Port Sunlight Unilever plant is safe despite the announcement of job losses.
Indian Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
Consumer goods major Unilever Plc has announced slashing of 250 research jobs across the world as a part of its restructuring plan to consolidate its research and development activities.
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Photo via unleashingmephotography Reducing the number of colors used in printing packaging for a sliver of their products is going to save Unilever millions of dollars every year, and could save the industry as much as $5 billion annually if other companies follow suit. Unilever took a hard look at their spreads and dressings packaging in Europe and has decided to cut down from 100 hues used in printing...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
The household products giant yesterday said 70 jobs would be axed in Wirral as part of 250 jobs cut around the world.
5 Blogs Before Lunch (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
For many of us who have worked for multi-national corporations Mumbai (formerly Bombay) was always on the itinerary for international travel. India long has been one of the biggest developing markets for most companies. So, the incidents of the last...
Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
J.P. Morgan to lay off 9,200 WaMu workers Super Steel’s Schenectady plant closing, up to 200 jobs lost Layoffs coming to Insite Vision Unilever will lay off 75 in Independence Pittsburgh Glass Works to lay off 150, closing three plants Bridgestone to cut 158 jobs in La Vergne Posted in Industry News, Layoffs Tagged: jobs, Layoffs, unemployment
The Kansas City Business Journal (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The Unilever plant in Independence will lay off 75 employees between Feb. 1 and May 1.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Consumer goods giant Unilever announces it is to cut about 70 jobs at its Port Sunlight site.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool News (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
SEVENTY jobs at Unilever’s Port Sunlight research and development unit will be axed over the next year.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
SEVENTY jobs at Unilever’s Port Sunlight research and development unit will be axed over the next year.
MultiCultClassics (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Ad Age reported Unilever is considering cost-cutting measures that involve reducing the number of colors in its packaging. No big surprise. This is the corporation whose Dove brand plays off White beauty standards. Plus, Unilever pushes Fair & Lovely skin lightening products in places like India. Why, Unilever probably wants to turn all of its packaging pure White—just like the staffs of its Madison...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The food and soap manufacturing multinational Unilever has announced that it will divest from an Israeli factory in a Jewish settlement illegally built on land confiscated from Palestinians. Unilever, which makes household staples such as Sunsilk shampoo, Surf washing powder and Vaseline, said it would sell its 51% stake in the Beigel & Beigel factory in the West Bank settlement of Ariel. The UK and...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Andrew Peat was an in-house corporate lawyer who spent more than 30 years working with Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch household goods and food manufacturing company. He was closely involved in the 1997 sale of Unilever’s speciality chemicals business to ICI for nearly £5 billion.
A view on PR from Silicon Valley (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
"Monkey" is the popular star of a two year-old advertising campaign for PG Tips tea in the UK. PG Tips is a popular brand of tea in the United Kingdom (they claim Britons drink 35 million cups of PG Tips a day) that seems to be very progressive. They're owned by multinational food giant Unilever, which was the first company in the world that committed to sourcing all its tea in sustainable manner....
Times Online (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
The terrorist outrage in Bombay on Wednesday became only too real for the chief executive and senior board members of Unilever. They had to barricade themselves in a private dining room at the Taj Mahal hotel and then smash a window in a dramatic escape.
