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1. Hindustan Unilever Ltd. 2. ITC (Indian 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.

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10. Marico Industries

Hindustan Unilever

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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]

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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 far it has reached 120 million people in over 50,000 villages.[2]

[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 to deal with it appropriately.[11]

[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. ^ India's hue and cry over paler skin, Daily Telegraph, 1 Jul 2007 14. ^ Priyanka Chopra is the new face of Ponds, Thaindian News, May 6th, 2008 15. ^ Criticism in India over skin-whitening trend, The Daily Telegraph, 10 Jul 2008 16. ^ See for example Jamie Cross and Alice Street "Anthropology at the Bottom of the Pyramid", (published in Anthropology Today, 25:4, August 2009, p.4-9), p.4-5

[edit] External links

Companies portal

y Official website of Hindustan Unilever Limited y Official website of Hindustan Unilever Network, direct selling multi-level marketing business

ITC Limited

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ITC Limited

Type Public (BSE: 500875)

Industry Conglomerate

Founded 24 August 1910

37, J.L.Nehru Road,, Bengal, Headquarters India

Y.C. Deveshwar, Chairman Kurush Grant, Exec. Director, P. Dhobale, Exec. Director, Key people Nakul Anand, Exec. Director, Rajiv Tandon, CFO, (with effect from 02.01.2011)

Revenue US$6 billion (2009)

Employees 26,150 (2009)

Website ITCportal.com

ITC Limited (BSE: 500875) public conglomerate company headquartered in Kolkata, India.[1] Its turnover is $6 billion and a market capitalization of over $30 Billion. The company has its registered office in Kolkata. It started off as the Imperial Tobacco Company, and shares ancestry with Imperial Tobacco of the , but it is now fully independent, and was rechristened to Indian Tobacco Company in 1970 and then to I.T.C. Limited in 1974

The company is currently headed by . It employs over 26,000 people at than 60 locations across India and is listed on Forbes 2000. ITC Limited completed 100 years on 24 August 2010.

ITC has a diversified presence in , Hotels, Paperboards & Specialty Papers, Packaging, Agri-Business, Packaged Foods & Confectionery, Information Technology, Branded Apparel, Personal Care, Stationery, Safety Matches and other FMCG products. While ITC is an outstanding market leader in its traditional businesses of Cigarettes, Hotels, Paperboards, Packaging and Agri-Exports, it is rapidly gaining market share even in its nascent businesses of Packaged Foods & Confectionery, Branded Apparel, Personal Care and Stationery.

ITC's aspiration to be an exemplar in sustainability practices is manifest in its status as the only company in the world of its size and diversity to be 'carbon positive', 'water positive' and 'solid waste recycling positive.' In addition, ITC's businesses have created sustainable livelihoods for more than 5 million people, a majority of whom represent the poorest in rural India.

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y 1 List of products & brands y 2 Rural initiatives y 3 Corporate philanthropy y 4 Forbes ranking y 5 Global and other Honours y 6 References y 7 External links

List of products & brands It has been suggested that be merged into this article or section. (Discuss)

In FMCG, ITC has a strong presence in:

y Cigarettes: W. D. & H. O. Wills, Kings, Gold Flake Premium, Navy Cut, Insignia, India Kings, Classic (Verve, Menthol, Menthol Rush, Regular, Mild & Ultra Mild), 555, Benson & Hedges, Silk Cut, Scissors, , Berkeley, Bristol, Lucky Strike, Players and Flake. y Foods: (Kitchens of India; Ashirvaad; Minto; Sunfeast; Candyman; Bingo; Yippee, Sunfeast Pasta brands in Ready to Eat, Staples, Biscuits, Confectionery, Noodles and Snack Foods); y Apparel: (Wills Lifestyle and John Players brands); y Personal care: (; Vivel; Essenza di Wills; Superia; Vivel brands of products in perfumes, haircare and skincare) [2] y Stationery: (Classmate and Paperkraft brands) y Safety Matches and Agarbattis: [Ship (through ownership of WIMCO); iKno; Mangaldeep; Aim brands]

Other businesses include:

y Hotels: ITC's hotels (under brands including ITC Hotel /Welcomhotel) have evolved into being India's second largest hotel chain with over 80 hotels throughout the country. ITC is also the exclusive franchisee in India of two brands owned by Sheraton International Inc.- The Luxury Collection and Sheraton which ITC uses in association with its own brands in the luxury 5 star segment. Brands in the hospitality sector owned and operated by its subsidiaries include Fortune and Welcomheritage brands. y Paperboard, Specialty Paper, Graphic and other Paper; y Packaging and Printing for diverse international and Indian clientele. y Infotech (through its near-wholly owned subsidiary ITC Infotech India Limited which is a SEI CMM Level 5 company)

[edit] Rural initiatives

ITC's Agri-Business is India's second largest exporter of agricultural products. ITC is one of the India's biggest foreign exchange earners (US $ 2 billion in the last decade). The Company's 'e- Choupal' initiative is enabling Indian agriculture significantly enhance its competitiveness by empowering Indian farmers through the power of the Internet. This transformational strategy, which has already become the subject matter of a case study at Harvard Business School, is expected to progressively create for ITC a huge rural distribution infrastructure, significantly enhancing the Company's marketing reach.

The company places computers with Internet access in rural farming villages; the e-Choupals serve as both a social gathering place for exchange of information (choupal means gathering place in Hindi) and an e-commerce hub. What began as an effort to re-engineer the procurement process for soy, tobacco, wheat, shrimp, and other cropping systems in rural India has also created a highly profitable distribution and product design channel for the company²an e- commerce platform that is also a low-cost fulfillment system focused on the needs of rural India. The e-Choupal system has also catalyzed rural transformation that is helping to alleviate rural isolation, create more transparency for farmers, and improve their productivity and incomes.

[edit] Corporate philanthropy

ITC Echoupal creatively leverages information technology to set up a meta-market in favour of India's small and poor farmers, who would otherwise continue to operate and transact in 'un- evolved' markets.

As of July 2010, services through 6500 Echoupal across 10 states, reach more than 4 million farmers in about 40,000 villages. Free access to Internet is also opening windows of rural India to the world at large. ITC eChoupal e-choupal is now being regarded as a reliable delivery mechanism for resource development initiatives. Its potential is being tested through pilot projects in healthcare, educational services, water management and cattle health management with the help of several service providers including non-governmental organizations.

When Classmate notebooks were launched, it came up with the initiative of contributing 1 rupee towards the education of poor children,from every single notebook it sold.

Classmate, has launched a programme called Classmate Ideas for India challenge. The programme would be a part of the company's centenary initiative.[3] The nation-wide programme would invite ideas of the youth, who have the potential to transform India. Classmate Ideas for India challenge plans to reach out to 25 lakh students across 30 cities, 500 schools and 200 colleges across the country.[4]

[edit] Forbes ranking

ITC features on the Forbes Global 2000 rankings for 2007 at position 1256.[5]

ITC is the only Indian FMCG company that features on the Forbes Global 2000 rankings for 2009 at position 987.[6]

ITC also featured on the Forbes World's Most reputable Companies List at position 95.[7]

[edit] Global and other Honours

y ITC is the first from India and among the first 10 companies in the world to publish its Sustainability Report in compliance (at the highest A+ level) with theest G3 guidelines of the Netherlands-based Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), a UN-backed, multistakeholder international initiative to develop and disseminate globally applicable Sustainability Reporting Guidelines.

y ITC is the first Indian company and the second in the world to win the prestigious Development Gateway Award. It won the $100,000 Award for the year 2005 for its trailblazing ITC e-Choupal initiative which has achieved the scale of a movement in rural India. The Development Gateway Award recognizes ITC's e-Choupal as the most exemplary contribution in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for development during the last 10 years. ITC e-Choupal won the Award for the importance of its contribution to development priorities like poverty reduction, its scale and replicability, sustainability and transparency.

y ITC has won the inaugural 'World Business Award', the worldwide business award recognising companies who have made significant efforts to create sustainable livelihood opportunities and enduring wealth in developing countries. The award has been instituted jointly by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the HRH Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF).