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Equality For All
Ice Academy participant Uche. In 2018, we expanded the Ben & Jerry’s Ice Academy to 28 people in the UK, ten in the Netherlands and ten in Germany.
Why refugees can be a benefit, not a burden

While it’s hard for most of us to imagine the true difficulty that refugees experience, it’s easy to look the other way when the problem gets too close to home. But as a business, we see things differently.
3minute read time
Equality For All
The Ice Academy
19/06/2019 5minute read time
Refugee stories: The lawyer, the banker and the car-parts dealer
Three Ben & Jerry’s Ice Academy participants explain how the programme is helping them pursue their business ideas
Equality For All
Planting a plant
19/06/2019 3minute read time
Refugee stories: The children finding hope in gardening and cooking
A Knorr initiative in Greece is helping unaccompanied refugee children acquire skills and adapt to their new life
Equality For All
Anas Anjrini with children in Aleppo. Anas has joined Unilever Italy as part of our Home Safe Home initiative, which supports refugees back into work.
19/06/2019 3minute read time
Refugee stories: From war-torn Aleppo to the Eternal City
After losing everything in the Syrian conflict, Anas has joined Unilever Italy as part of our initiative to support refugees
Collaborating & innovating for change
SERIES: How to be a Futuremaker in 2019
Unilever pioneers share their experience of doing business with purpose
Tracy with "growing roots" t-shirt
07/01/2019 2minute read time
How Tracy created a snack brand that’s funding urban farms
How good allies, an alert antenna and awareness of stakeholder needs unlocked resources to make Growing Roots a reality
Cristine Lu
07/01/2019 2minute read time
How Cristine’s recycled bottle is helping tackle plastic waste
Showing others the value of sustainability helped Cristine Lu build a business case for change
Sonika beauty
07/01/2019 2minute read time
How Sonika launched a purposeful beauty brand – fast
Lean innovation and a ‘golden week’ of decision-making helped Sonika Malhotra bring Love Beauty and Planet to life
Jay and Ben&Jerrys
07/01/2019 2minute read time
How Jay helped ice cream fans make marriage equality happen
Sharing Ben & Jerry's values and engaging with experts helped Jay build a community ready to take action
Jane Wurwand
08/01/2019 2minute read time
How Jane Wurwand turned $14,000 into a global skincare business
Resilience and seeing challenge as opportunity helped Jane build the US’s first salon professional skincare brand
Unilever News
Time Square at night
19/06/2019 3minute read time
Marketing has a titanic trust problem
Our CEO Alan Jope is challenging the advertising world to use creativity to drive positive change
Alan Jope
Alan Jope
CEO, Unilever
Alan Jope
Alan Jope
CEO, Unilever
Alan Jope has been CEO of Unilever since May 2019, and was formerly President of our Beauty & Personal Care division.
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Consuming Sustainably
Knorr promoting cooking in Africa
11/06/2019 2minute read time
Brands with purpose grow – and here’s the proof
Purpose underpins our business. And our latest figures show it has a significant impact on our performance
Collaborating & innovating for change
100% recycled Cif
10/06/2019 2minute read time
Argentina gets its first 100% recycled and recyclable dishwash bottle
In a country where consumers throw away 12 million plastic bottles every day, Cif is helping to create a circular economy
Equality For All
Woman processing tea. At Unilever we have developed the Lean Data Gender Toolkit with Acumen to help businesses, investors and others make gender-smart decisions
07/06/2019 3minute read time
Knowledge is power: how data is unlocking women's potential
The gender gap is everywhere. How do we use data to find the best ways to close it – and unlock women's potential?
Collaborating & innovating for change
Three girls smiling. Dove’s Self Esteem Project empowers young people to improve their body confidence through education.
07/06/2019 2minute read time
Dove partners with UNICEF to bring self-esteem education to millions
Dove’s Self-Esteem Project will empower 10 million more young people across India, Brazil and Indonesia
Equality For All
Father holding baby closely
05/06/2019 3minute read time
Why championing paternity leave empowers men, women and business
Limited opportunities and social stigma can get in the way of fathers caring for their children – and of women's empowerment
Collaborating & innovating for change
Circular Economy
01/11/2018 LLong Read
Explainer: what is the circular economy?
Equality For All
Mother and son hugging
04/06/2019 3minute read time
Five reasons why if you're in business, unpaid work matters
Working with Oxfam, we've published a briefing that shows how business can benefit by tackling unpaid care in the home
Collaborating & innovating for change
Black plastics
20/05/2019 3minute read time
We’ve cracked the tricky problem of recycling black plastic bottles
Until now, black plastic bottles have been impossible to mechanically detect and sort. But we’ve developed a way to do it.
Collaborating & innovating for change
Dove ShowUs nonbinary
15/05/2019 3minute read time
Project #ShowUs: Dove’s disruptive new partnership to shatter stereotypes
Dove has launched an image library created and curated exclusively by women, female-identifying and non-binary individuals.
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Brands with purpose grow – and here’s the proof

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Why gender equality matters to Unilever

Why gender equality matters to Unilever

Futuremaker: Jane Wurwand

Futuremaker: Jane Wurwand

Futuremaker: Jay Tandan

Futuremaker: Jay Tandan

Futuremaker: Tracy Shepard-Rashkin

Futuremaker: Tracy Shepard-Rashkin

Futuremaker: Sonika Malhotra

Futuremaker: Sonika Malhotra

Futuremaker: Cristine Lu

Futuremaker: Cristine Lu

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