Renewing Unilever

Download or read book Renewing Unilever written by Geoffrey Jones and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unilever is one of the world's largest suppliers of fast moving consumer goods in foods, home and personal care. Unilever's operations cover food and home and personal care. This book takes the readers inside this corporation, which, from its origins in Britain and the Netherlands, has become a worldwide manufacturer of consumer products. Unilever is one of the world's largest suppliers of fast moving consumer goods in foods, home and personal care. It operates in over 100 countries. Its scope and scale make it a unique global corporation. Yet the story of Unilever is not simply a tale of corporate evolution: Unilever is a corporation that has a big impact on the lives of people round the world. Indeed, a Unilever brand can be found in one in every two households worldwide. Geoffrey Jones, a leading business historian from the Harvard Business School, takes us inside this corporation, which, from its origins in Britain and the Netherlands, has become a worldwide manufacturer of fast moving consumer products. Unilever's operations cover food and home and personal care, and its brands include Lipton, Hellmann's, Birds Eye, Wall's, Surf, Domestos, Comfort, Dove, Sunsilk, Pond's, Signal, Axe, and Ben & Jerry's. In particular the book focuses on the evolution of the company over the last half century. Managing such a firm in the era of globalization posed enormous challenges