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Showing posts with label Unilever. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unilever. Show all posts

November 22, 2011

What Constitutes Sustainable Tea?

A battle between Unilever and an Amsterdam-based non-governmental group over the rights of workers on tea plantations in India and Kenya shows the difficulties facing multinational companies that are trying to ensure their products are ethically produced.nilever, which makes the popular Brooke Bond and Lipton brands, has committed to sourcing all its tea sustainably by 2020.

February 04, 2011

Consumption growth to spawn many M&As in the FMCG space

India, with one of the fastest growing consumption markets in the world, is critical to the growth plans of multinational consumer companies with a presence here, more so because of the lacklustre growth in the developed markets, as reported in The Economic Times. Many multinational companies such as Nestle, Unilever, Proctor & Gamble, Kraft, Gillette and General Mills have operations in India and, over the last couple of years, several others like United Biscuits and Excelsia have also made an entry, the report adds.