Hindustan Unilever

Infobox Company
company_name = Hindustan Unilever Limited
company_
company_type = Public
foundation = 1933
location =
key_people = flagicon|IND Harish Manwani Chairman
flagicon|IND Nitin Paranjpe, CEO
industry = Fast moving consumer goods
products = tea, soap, detergents,Food Items
revenue =
operating_income =
net_income =
num_employees = 41,000
parent = Unilever
subsid =
homepage = [http://www.hul.co.in www.hul.co.in]
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Hindustan Unilever Limited (abbreviated to HUL), formerly Hindustan Lever Limited , is India's largest consumer products company and was formed in 1933 as Lever Brothers India Limited. It is currently headquartered in Mumbai, India and its 41,000 employees are headed by Harish Manwani, the non-executive chairman of the board. HUL is the market leader in Indian products such as tea, soaps, detergents, as its products have become daily household name in India. The Anglo-Dutch company Unilever owns a majority stake in Hindustan Unilever Limited.

The company was renamed in late June 2007 to "Hindustan Unilever Limited" to provide the optimum balance between maintaining the heritage of the Company and the future benefits and synergies of global alignment with the corporate name of "Unilever".

Brands

Some of its brands include Kwality Wall's ice cream, Lifebuoy, Lux, Breeze, Liril, Rexona, Hamam, Moti soaps, Pureit Water Purifier, Lipton tea, Brooke Bond tea, Bru Coffee, Pepsodent and Close Up toothpaste and brushes, and Surf, Rin and Wheel laundry detergents, Kissan squashes and jams, Annapurna salt and atta, Pond's talcs and creams, Vaseline lotions, Fair & Lovely creams, Lakmé beauty products, Clinic Plus, Clinic All Clear, Sunsilk and Dove shampoos, Vim dishwash, Ala bleach and Domex disinfectant.Rexona,Modern Bread and Axe deosprays

Leadership

HUL has produced numerous business leaders for corporate India. It is referred to as a 'CEO Factory' in the Indian press for the same reasons. It's leadership building potential was recognized when it was ranked 4th in the Hewitt Global Leadership Survey 2007 with only GE, P&G and Nokia ranking ahead of HUL in the ability to churn out leaders with regularity.

Controversy

Hindustan Lever was forced to withdraw television advertisements for its women's skin-lightening cream, Fair and Lovely. Advertisements depicted depressed, dark-complexioned women, who had been ignored by employers and men, suddenly finding new boyfriends and glamorous careers after the cream had lightened their skin. [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/01/wskin101.xml India's hue and cry over paler skin - Telegraph ] ]

See also

* List of toothpaste brands
* List of Indian companies

References

External links

* [http://www.hll.com/ Official website of Hindustan Unilever Limited]
* [http://www.hllpureit.com/ Official website of Hindustan Lever Pureit]
* [http://www.hln.co.in Official website of Hindustan Lever Network]
* [http://www.pearsinternational.com Official website of Pears Transparent Soap]
* [http://www.ban.org/Library/unilevers.html HLL's role] in mercury poisoning in Kodaikanal
* [http://hindustanlever.blogspot.com/ Unofficial Hindustan Unilever Limited Blog]
* [http://frugal.in/sangamdirect.html Review of Home Shopping Service from Hindustan Lever Limited]
* [http://www.domain-b.com/management/general/20070921_companies.html Hewitt Leadership Survey]