
Hindustan Unilever Limited is the Indian subsidiary of the British-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever. It is the company’s largest enterprise in terms of the volume of products sold, annually selling over 4 million tonnes of consumer, food and personal care products. Worldwide, Unileveremploys more than 170,000 people in 180 countries, with a total turnover of about €50 billion.
Hindustan Unilever has a host of strong branded products in the portfolio, divided into categories like personal care, home care and foods & beverages. Examples of some of the company’s most popular products are Lifebouy, Lux, Vim, SurfExcel, Rin, Fair & Lovely, Active Wheel, Kissan, BrookBond, Lipton and Magnum.
From a personal care perspective, Hindustan Unilever offers a range of products like shampoos, fairness creams, face soaps, talc, deodorants, and shower gels. The company has launched a range of shampoos – Dove, Clinic Plus, Sunsilk, Clear, and several other brands. It also manufactures HUL beauty soaps such as Lux, Dove, and Lux International, and a package of fairness creams, such as Fair & Lovely and Vaseline Men Face Cream.
Home care is another mainstream category for HUL products with a strong market share in India. SurfExcel, Rin, Wipro Safewash and 7X Soap Powder feature amongst its many home care items like detergents and detergent bars. The company has also been successful in producing several daily-use products such as brooms, cleaners, mops, glass cleaner, room fresheners and air fresheners.
When it comes to food and beverage products, Hindustan Unilever has established brands such as Knorr, Kissan, Lipton and Brooke Bond. The company has launched many products under Kissan including sauces, jams and ketchups, and a wide range of tea and coffee products that are offered under the Lipton and Brooke Bond brand. Hindustan Unilever has also introduced Magnum - a range of premium wafer products in India.
In addition, the company sells packaged drinking water of the brand – Pureit, and packaged tea extracts under the brand name – Taaza. As a part of the food range, the company has also introduced sauces like Knorr soups, ketchups, tomato paste and mayonnaise.
Overall, Hindustan Unilever Limited has created a powerful portfolio of products in a short span of time. The company's products span a broad range of categories, ranging from personal care, home care, and foods & beverage products. Consumers have been able to identify with the company’s value-for-money products and have been loyal to them for a long time. The company is thus well placed to continue increasing its market share, further expanding its business in the process.
The Company has about 21,000 employees and has sales of INR 50,000+ crores (financial year 2021-22). HUL is a subsidiary of Unilever, one of the world’s leading suppliers of food, home care, personal care and refreshment products with sales in over 190 countries.
HUL was established in 1933 as Hindustan Vanaspati Manufacturing Co. The company was renamed in June 2007 as Hindustan Unilever Limited. Hindustan Unilever Limited has ten directors – Nitin Keshav Paranjpe, Kalpana Jaisingh Morparia, and others.
Operating Revenue Over INR 500 cr
EBITDA 10.41 %
Networth 2.80 %
Debt/Equity Ratio 0.00
Return on Equity 18.08 %
Its products include foods, beverages, cleaning agents, personal care products, water purifiers and other fast-moving consumer goods. They are working on 50+ brands in India in 14 categories.
Food
1) Annapurna salt and Atta (formerly known as Kissan Annapurna)
2) Bru coffee
3) Brooke Bond tea
4) Kissan squashes, ketchups, juices and jams
5) Lipton ice tea
6) Knorr soups & meal makers and soupy noodles
7) Kwality Wall’s frozen dessert
8) Hellmann’s mayonnaise
9) Magnum (ice cream)
10) Cornetto Ice cream cone
11) Horlicks (Health Drink)
Homecare
1. Active Wheel detergent
2. Cif Cream Cleaner
3. Comfort fabric softeners
4. Domex disinfectant/toilet cleaner
5. Nature Protect disinfectant surface cleaner
6. Rin detergents and bleach
7.Sunlight detergent and colour care
8. Surf Excel detergent and gentle wash
9. Vim dishwash
10. Magic – Water Saver
Personal care
1. Aviance Beauty Solutions
2. Axe deodorant, aftershave lotion and soap
3. LEVER Ayush Therapy ayurvedic health care and personal care products
4. International breeze
5. Brylcreem hair cream and hair gel
6. Clear anti-dandruff hair products
7. Clinic Plus shampoo and oil
8. Close Up toothpaste
9. Dove skin cleansing & hair care range: bar, lotions, creams and anti-perspirant deodorants
10. Denim shaving products
11. Glow and Lovely, skin lightening cream
12. Hamam
13. Indulekha
14. Lakmé beauty products and salons
15. Lifebuoy soaps and handwash range
16. Liril 2000 soap
17.Lux soap, body wash & deodorant
18. Pears soap, body wash
19. Pepsodent toothpaste
20. Pond’s creams & talcs
21. Rexona
22. Sunsilk shampoo
23. Sure anti-perspirant
24. Vaseline petroleum jelly, skincare lotions
25. TRESemmé
26. TIGI
Water purifier
1) Pureit



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