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Top 10 FMCG Companies Top 10 FMCG Companies Companies FMCG sector is an ever growing sector and is currently in a boom phase. There are many jobs in FMCG sector at diiferent levels like sales, supply chain, manager, operations, purchasing, supervisor, administration, general S. NO. management, product development, HR, Finance and marketing. FMCG sector is famous for jobs that are not only well paying but also gives the best perks and bonuses. Freshers are looking for jobs in FMCGsector as these jobs will give them the best career in the industry. 1. Hindustan Unilever Ltd. 2. ITC (Indian Tobacco Company) 3. Nestlé India 4. GCMMF (AMUL) 5. Dabur India 6. Asian Paints (India) 7. Cadbury India 8 Britannia Industries Procter & Gamble Hygiene and 9. Health Care 10. Marico Industries Hindustan Unilever From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2010) Hindustan Unilever Ltd Type Public company BSE: 500696 Fast Moving Consumer Goods Industry FMCG) Founded 1933 Headquarters Mumbai, India Harish Manwani (Chairman), Nitin Key people Paranjpe (CEO and Managing Director) Products Home & Personal Care, Food & Beverages 17,873.44 crore (US$3.97 billion) Revenue (2009-2010) [1] Net income 2,202.03 crore (US$488.85 million) Employees Over 65,000 direct & indirect employees Parent Unilever Plc (52%) W ebsite www.hul.co.in Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) (BSE: 500696) is India's largest fast moving consumer goods company. The Anglo-Dutch company Unilever owns a 52% majority stake. HUL was formed in 1933 as Lever Brothers India Limited and came into being in 1956 as Hindustan Lever Limited through a merger of Lever Brothers, Hindustan Vanaspati Mfg. Co. Ltd. and United Traders Ltd. It is headquartered in Mumbai, India and has an employee strength of over 15,000 employees and contributes to indirect employment of over 52,000 people. The company was renamed in June 2007 as ³Hindustan Unilever Limited´. Hindustan Unilever's distribution covers over 1 million retail outlets across India directly and its products are available in over 6.3 million outlets in the country, nearly 80% of all retail outlets in India. It estimates that two out of three Indians use its many home and personal care products, food and beverages.[2] Contents [hide] y 1 Brands y 2 Leadership y 3 Other awards y 4 Research facilities y 5 Community services y 6 Direct Selling Division y 7 Controversy o 7.1 Mercury pollution o 7.2 Skin lightening creams o 7.3 Triclosan y 8 See also y 9 Notes y 10 External links [edit] Brands Wheel Detergent ad in rural Nepal area. HUL is the market leader in Indian consumer products with presence in over 20 consumer categories such as soaps, tea, detergents and shampoos amongst others with over 700 million Indian consumers using its products. Sixteen of HUL¶s brands featured in the ACNielsen Brand Equity list of 100 Most Trusted Brands Annual Survey (2008).[3] According to Brand Equity, HUL has the largest number of brands in the Most Trusted Brands List. It has consistently had the largest number of brands in the Top 50, and in the Top 10 (with 4 brands). The company has a distribution channel of 6.3 million outlets and owns 35 major Indian [4] brands. Its brands include Kwality Wall's ice cream, Knorr soups & meal makers, Lifebuoy, Lux, Pears, Breeze, Liril, Rexona, Hamam and Moti soaps, Pureit water purifier, Lipton tea, Brooke Bond (3 Roses, Taj Mahal, Taaza, Red Label) 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 and Lovely creams, Lakmé beauty products, Clear, Clinic Plus, Clinic All Clear, Sunsilk and Dove shampoos, Vim dishwash, Ala bleach, Domex disinfectant, Modern Bread, Axe deosprays and Comfort fabric softeners. [edit] Leadership HUL has produced many business leaders for corporate India; one of these, Manvinder Singh Banga, has become a member of Unilever's Executive (UEx). HUL'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 produce leaders with such regularity.[5][6][7] [edit] Other awards HUL is one of the country's largest exporters; it has been recognised as a Golden Super Star Trading House by the Government of India.[2] In 2007, Hindustan Unilever was rated as the most respected company in India for the past 25 [8] years by Businessworld, one of India¶s leading business magazines. The rating was based on a compilation of the magazine's annual survey of India¶s most reputed companies over the past 25 years. HUL was one of the eight Indian companies to be featured on the Forbes list of World¶s Most Reputed companies in 2007.[9] HUL was ranked 39th in The Brand Trust Report published by Trust Research Advisory in 2011. [edit] Research facilities The Hindustan Unilever Research Centre (HURC) was set up in 1967 in Mumbai, and Unilever Research India in Bangalore in 1997. Staff at these centres developed many innovations in products and manufacturing processes. In 2006, the company's research facilities were brought together at a single site in Bangalore.[10] [edit] Community services HUL also renders services to the community, focusing on health & hygiene education, empowerment of women, and water management. It is also involved in education and rehabilitation of underprivileged children, care for the destitute and HIV-positive, and rural development. HUL has also responded to national calamities, for instance with relief and [2] rehabilitation after the 2004 tsunami caused devastation in South India. In 2001, the company embarked on a programme called Shakti, through which it creates micro- enterprises for rural women. Shakti also includes health and hygiene education through the Shakti Vani Programme, which now covers 15 states in India with over 45,000 women entrepreneurs in 135,000 villages. By the end of 2010, Shakti aims to have 100,000 Shakti entrepreneurs covering 500,000 villages, touching the lives of over 600 million people. HUL is also running a rural health programme, Lifebuoy Swasthya Chetana. The programme endeavours to induce adoption of hygienic practices among rural Indians and aims to bring down the incidence of diarrhoea. So [2] far it has reached 120 million people in over 50,000 villages. [edit] Direct Selling Division HUL also runs Hindustan Unilever Network (HULN), a direct selling business arm. Under HULN, [ ] health products are marketed by AYUSH disambiguation needed in collaboration with Arya Vaidya Pharmacy, Coimbatore; beauty products by Aviance; home products by Lever Home, and male [ ] grooming by DIY. disambiguation needed There are also premium products for beauty salons and others. [edit] Controversy [edit] Mercury pollution In 2001 a thermometer factory in Kodaikanal run by Hindustan Unilever was accused of dumping glass contaminated with mercury in municipal dumps, or selling it on to scrap merchants unable [11] to deal with it appropriately. [edit] Skin lightening creams Hindustan Unilever's "Fair and Lovely" is the leading skin-lightening cream for women in India.[12] The company was forced to withdraw television advertisements for the product in 2007. 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 [13] lightened their skin. In 2008 Hindustan Unilever made former Miss World Priyanka Chopra a [14] brand ambassador for Pond's, and she then appeared in a mini-series of television commercials for another skin lightening product, White Beauty, alongside Saif Ali Khan and Neha Dhupia; these advertisements were widely criticised for perpetuating racism.[15] [edit] Triclosan Several academic papers have pointed out the firm's continued use of the antibacterial agent Triclosan ('Active B') in India because is under review by the American Food and Drug [16] Administration (FDA). [edit] See also y Hindustan Unilever on Wikinvest [edit] Notes 1. ^ 2009 results, Bombay Stock Exchange 2. ^ a b c d "Present stature". official website. Archived from the original on 2008-08-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20080802090951/http://hul.co.in/knowus/pre sent_stature.asp. Retrieved 2010-08-15. 3. ^ Brand Equity Most Trusted Brands 4. ^ HUL Annual Report 2007, available from Annual reports page on official website 5. ^ Lucas, MacKenzie (2007-09-19). "Global Top Companies for Leaders Announced". Hewitt Associates. http://www.hewittassociates.com/Intl/NA/en- US/AboutHewitt/Newsroom/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?cid=4345. Retrieved 2008-11-16. 6. ^ Kulshrestha, Taneesha (2007-10-18). "Global leadership right here in India". The Financial Express. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/global- leadership-right-here-in-india/229374/. Retrieved 2008-11-16. 7. ^ "Hewitt survey: Indian companies break into global leadership ghhglist". domain-b.com. 2007-09-21. http://www.domain- b.com/management/general/20070921_companies.html. Retrieved 2008-11-16. 8. ^ Business World Most Respected Company 2007 9. ^ Forbes Most Reputed Companies, Nov 2006 10. ^ Overview of Research Centres on official website. Retrieved 2010-08-12 11. ^ Ban.org 12. ^ Anushay Hossain, The Color Complex: Is the Fixation Really Fair?, Sapna magazine, 10 Mar 2008 13.
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