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  • [New] Under the overhaul, which is expected to save €800m (£684m) over the next three years, it will separate its ice cream businesses and divide the rest of Unilever into four divisions: Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care and Nutrition. The Telegraph
  • [New] The FTSE 100 was cushioned from a fall by a 5.3 pc gain in Unilever as the consumer goods group plans to spin off its ice cream unit into a standalone business and announced a new cost-savings programme that would impact 7,500 jobs. The Telegraph
  • [New] Unilever has revealed plans to spin off its ice cream business and could cut around 7,500 jobs as part of a broader cost-saving programme. FoodBev Media
  • [New] Tens of thousands of additional tonnes of plastic could be recycled in the UK each year if companies simply dyed their products a different colour, or added a small quantity of detectable pigment, as Unilever recently agreed to do with its black Lynx bottles. London Review of Books
  • The decision to expand its non-dairy range is likely fuelled by two factors: consumer demand (although no vegan offering made it into Ben & Jerry's top 10 flavours of 2023 in the UK) and Unilever's commitment to achieve annual sales of €1.5bn from plant-based products by 2025. FoodNavigator.com
  • Nestle has highlighted a forecast that a fifth of industry media spend would be through e-retail by 2025, note analysts at Exane, while Unilever's retail media spending has tripled in the past three years and could reach a quarter of its total budget. Financial Times
  • Global manufacturers like Danone and Unilever have committed to report on the healthiness of their sales using government-endorsed definitions, while Premier Foods has gone even further and committed to double its sales of healthier products by 2030. Reuters
  • As the cost-of-living crisis worsens, Unilever must consider whether increasing prices is a sustainable strategy in the face of falling volumes, and if a cost-saving approach to restructuring operations will yield better volume growth, as consumers adopt new shopping habits. ESM Magazine
  • The combination of Horizon3Labs' disruptive innovation with Accenture's deep expertise and strong ecosystem partnerships will help Unilever scale AI and generative AI more rapidly and responsibly across its business and discover new pathways to value. Manila Standard
  • The combination of 'Horizon3 Labs' disruptive innovation with Accenture's deep expertise and strong ecosystem partnerships will help Unilever scale AI and generative AI more rapidly and responsibly across its business and discover new pathways to value. FinancialExpress
  • Hindustan Unilever Limited has highlighted it will be proceeding cautiously in managing its food business for the rest of the year despite positive results in Q2FY2023, citing continued volatile climate changes and inflationary pressures. FoodNavigator-Asia.com
  • Unilever, for instance, has pledged to halve its use of non-recycled plastic by 2025, while British supermarket chain Tesco launched a sustainable packaging initiative to reduce its annual packaging footprint by 1.5 billion pieces of plastic. Harvard Business Review
  • Slashing food waste Unilever stresses that the consumer goods company aims to halve food waste across all its operations from factory to shelf by 2025. .foodingredientsfirst.com/
  • Unilever's global team of marketers will be under increasing pressure to deliver purpose-focused work which challenges societal behaviour without engaging in a culture war that could impact sales for the worse. The Drum
  • Unilever alone pump out 46 billion plastic sachets every year, so the prospect of providing scalable and viable solutions for more companies like it has the potential to make a huge impact. Design Week
  • For Unilever's Jarman, protein diversification will allow food formulators to build products that are more nutritionally dense, with the added benefit of helping to create a food system that is able to withstand supply-side shocks exasperated by extreme weather events and climate change. FoodNavigator.com
  • Unilever proved how a flexible recipe, see through fridge containers and measuring food waste could be used to decrease food waste when challenging customers to make a meal from leftovers. dunnhumby
  • The partnership with Unilever forms part of IHG's 10-year Journey to Tomorrow responsible business plan, which includes eliminating single-use items, minimising food waste, and adopting circular solutions for major hotel commodity items by 2030. Business Green
  • Companies such as Unilever and Nestle SA have established internal costs for water (shadow prices) factoring in water risks, costs and other factors. GreenBiz
  • Unilever's Hellmann's is testing a 'Smart Jar' design that will indicate fridge temperature, in a bid to reduce food waste. FoodBev Media
  • Coca-Cola, Unilever, GSK, and other Corporate Leaders Group Europe members are calling upon the European Union to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 90% by 2040 via ten principles, including the phasing out of fossil fuels and an evidence-based approach to carbon removals. Packaging Europe
  • The B2B alternative protein company currently has more than 30 customers, including Unilever, which plans to test Abunda in its European Vegetarian Butcher products, Dutch poultry processor Plukon Food Group, and manufacturers supplying UK retailer Marks & Spencer. Food Dive

Last updated: 25 March 2024



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