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How to make life better for half the world’s population on International Women’s Day and every day

In 2010, we set a target of achieving a 50/50 gender balance in managerial roles across Unilever’s global business by the end of 2020. We’re pleased to say we’ve just reached that milestone early. Here’s a closer look at how we got there.

“We consider our impact in every step of our business, from the first leaf to the last sip”

Our Port Sunlight factory in the UK is part of a world-first project to explore if hydrogen could be a viable alternative to natural gas to fuel manufacturing plants.

From nutrition workshops in Mexico to food innovation in the Netherlands, Knorr’s Future 50 Foods report has created momentum for sustainable change throughout the business, and given consumers a practical way of making environmentally-friendly changes to their daily lives.

Our new marketing principles are designed to help parents and caregivers select foods, drinks and ice creams that are developed for children. Wall’s ice cream is leading the implementation of this approach

Every year, over 150,000 people die in Bangladesh because of health issues not detected in time, so Territory Manager Riaz Hasan set up an annual health check for workers. It’s saved lives, cut staff turnover and hiked growth.

Environmental non-profit CDP has given Unilever a triple ‘A’ score for our action to mitigate climate risk, protect forests and enhance water stewardship.

How Unilever Hero Atahan Ozgunay developed recyclable flexible packaging for Knorr soups

Signal’s new Ecolo Clean toothbrushes break the mould. The brush handles are made from fully recycled plastic and come in recyclable paper packaging.

How on-site health checks and childcare provision for working parents helped Jessica Yao improve the quality of life for employees at Unilever’s Shanghai office

At Unilever we don’t test our products on animals, and we’ve been developing and using alternatives to animal testing for more than 30 years. Here five young scientists based at one of our UK R&D centres share what this work means to them