Hindustan Unilever 403001 217512112 2008-06-06T10:53:28Z 203.115.88.171 /* External links */ {{Primarysources|date=July 2007}} {{Infobox Company | company_name = Hindustan Unilever Limited | company_logo = [[Image:HLL logo.png|200px]] | company_type = [[Public company|Public]] | foundation = 1933 | location = [[Image:Flag of India.svg|20px]] [[Mumbai]], [[India]] | key_people = {{flagicon|IND}} [[Harish Manwani]] Chairman <br> {{flagicon|IND}} Nitin Paranjpe, CEO | industry = [[Fast moving consumer goods]] | products = tea, soap, detergents | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | num_employees = 41,000 | parent = [[Unilever]] | subsid = | homepage = [http://www.hll.com www.hll.com] | footnotes = }} '''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|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 [[Great Britain|Anglo]]-[[Netherlands|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". This decision will be put to the shareholders for approval in next "Annual General Meeting" == Brands == [[Image:Wheel-detergent.jpg|thumb|left|Wheel Detergent ad in rural Nepal area.]] Some of its brands include [[Kwality Wall's]] ice cream, [[Lifebuoy (soap)|Lifebuoy]], [[Lux (soap)|Lux]], Breeze, Liril, [[Rexona]], Hamam, Moti soaps, [[Pureit]] Water Purifier, [[Lipton]] tea, [[Brooke Bond]] tea, Bru Coffee, [[Pepsodent]] and [[Close Up (toothpaste)|Close Up]] toothpaste and brushes, and [[Surf]], Rin and [[Wheel detergent|Wheel]] laundry detergents, Kissan squashes and jams, Annapurna salt and atta, [[Pond's Creams|Pond's]] talcs and creams, [[Vaseline]] lotions, Fair & Lovely creams, [[Lakme cosmetics|Lakmé]] beauty products, Clinic Plus, Clinic All Clear, [[Sunsilk]] and Dove shampoos, [[Vim (detergent)|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-skinned women, who had been ignored by employers and men, suddenly finding new boyfriends and glamorous careers after the cream had lightened their skin.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/01/wskin101.xml India's hue and cry over paler skin - Telegraph<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> == See also == * [[List of toothpaste brands]] * [[List of Indian companies]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==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 (element)|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] {{BSE Sensex}} [[Category:Companies of India]] [[Category:Food companies of India]] [[Category:Unilever]] [[Category:Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange]] [[Category:BSE Sensex]] [[de:Hindustan Unilever]] [[sv:Hindustan Unilever]]