Unilever describes its mission as adding “vitality to life.” It meets everyday needs for nutrition, hygiene and personal care with brands that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life. It is committed to meeting those needs in a sustainable way and recognizes the need to align economic growth, environmental protection and social progress for a sustainable future.

Every day, people around the world choose Unilever products to feed their families and clean themselves and their homes. This simple fact illustrates the main way in which the firm makes a positive contribution to society: by meeting people's basic needs for nutrition, hygiene and personal care with the brands it sells.

The company employs some 206,000 people around the globe and reports annual sales of $52 billion. It is one of the world's leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods with strong local roots in more than 100 countries across the globe. Its portfolio includes some of the world's best known and most loved brands such as: Knorr, Hellmann's, Lipton, Blue Band, Flora/Becel, Bertolli; Dove, Lux, Pond's, Axe/Lynx, Rexona/Sure; Skip/Persil; Cif and Domestos.

Unilever also is committed to managing its social and environmental impacts responsibly, to working in partnership with our stakeholders and to contributing to sustainable development.

Unilever’s environmental program is focused on three initiatives: agriculture, fish and water. More than two-thirds of our raw materials come from agriculture. At the same time, over the last ten years, Unilever has been using life-cycle analysis techniques to find ways to reduce the environmental impacts of making, using and disposing of its products. Today, Unilever is extending its product life-cycle approach beyond environmental impacts to broader social and economic issues.

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