CSR practices of Unilever Shalamberidze S. , BMN-156
Methodology: • Analysis of recourses & company’s data • Analysis of case study
About the company: • 3 rd largest consumer products company • 169 000 employees • Stakeholders include consumers, employees, investors, suppliers, and communities • Main focus of CSR - climate change; food security; water, sanitation & hygiene
Unilever brands (400):
History of the company: • In the early 1870 s, at the Netherlands, Jurgens and Van den Bergh become interested in a new product made from beef fat and milk – margarine (1898 – Vitello) • 1884 - Lever & Co starts producing Sunlight soap (1890 Lever Brothers Ltd. ) • 1886 - Knorr launches soup tablets with meat extract • 1904 - Lever Brothers launch Vim, one of the first scouring powders • 1913 - Leading businesses in Europe join forces to create the Whale Oil Pool • 1927 - Jurgens and Van den Bergh create Margarine Unie - the Margarine Union • 1929 - Lever Brothers and Margarine Unie sign an agreement to create Unilever
CSR practices of Unilever Positive Negative • Alternative ways of testing products • 600 workers in India over mercury exposure from a now closed thermometer plant • Program “perfect villages, ” (1, 000 rural communities promotes products through programs around hygiene) • In 2008 - “handwashing day” in more than 50 countries • Meet high standards (In 2016 Unilever updated its palm oil sourcing policy) • Abuses of workers on Unilever’s Kenyan estate, including sexual harassment and poor housing conditions • Unilever is accused of failing to declare zero tolerance against land grabs, crushing poverty and exploitation of women farmers and agricultural workers.
Why? The goal was to double revenues from $40 billion to $80 billion Oxfam’s findings, published in 2013, showed that factories routinely ignored Unilever’s stated principles, including Polman’s dictate of paying workers decently So even it was promised not to use palm oil from cleared forests, company was not able to stop the deforestation
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References • Unilever official website – Our position on [E-source] – URL: https: //www. unilever. ru/about/our-position-on/ (Date of access: 11. 09. 2017) • Unilever official website – Official documents [E-source] – URL: https: //www. unilever. ru/Images/3 infolabor 12 article_tcm 1315 -485039_ru. pdf (Date of access: 12. 09. 2017) • Forbes – Unilever and the failure of CSR [E-source] – URL: https: //www. forbes. com/sites/econostats/2017/03/15/unilev er-and-the-failure-of-corporate-socialresponsibility/#51 d 774 c 3498 d (Date of access: 07. 09. 2017) • The Guardian –Oxfam multinational companies failing CSR [E-source] – URL: https: //www. theguardian. com/sustainablebusiness/oxfam-multinational-companies-failing-csr (Date of access: 07. 09. 2017) • Sustaincase – Case study. How Unilever is acting on climate change by eliminating deforestation [E-source] – URL: https: //sustaincase. com/case-study-how-unilever-is-actingon-climate-change-by-eliminating-deforestation-2/ (Date of access: 11. 09. 2017)
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