CSR practices of Unilever презентация

employees, investors, suppliers, and communities
Main focus of CSR - climate change; food security; water, sanitation & hygiene

and Van den Bergh become interested in a new product made from beef fat and milk – margarine (1898 – Vitello)
1884 - Lever & Co starts producing Sunlight soap (1890 - Lever Brothers Ltd.)
1886 - Knorr launches soup tablets with meat extract
1904 - Lever Brothers launch Vim, one of the first scouring powders
1913 - Leading businesses in Europe join forces to create the Whale Oil Pool
1927 - Jurgens and Van den Bergh create Margarine Unie - the Margarine Union
1929 - Lever Brothers and Margarine Unie sign an agreement to create Unilever

rural communities promotes products through programs around hygiene)
In 2008 - “handwashing day” in more than 50 countries
Meet high standards (In 2016 Unilever updated its palm oil sourcing policy)

Negative

600 workers in India over mercury exposure from a now closed thermometer plant
Abuses of workers on Unilever’s Kenyan estate, including sexual harassment and poor housing conditions
Unilever is accused of failing to declare zero tolerance against land grabs, crushing poverty and exploitation of women farmers and agricultural workers.

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Oxfam’s findings, published in 2013, showed that factories routinely ignored Unilever’s stated principles, including Polman’s dictate of paying workers decently
So even it was promised not to use palm oil from cleared forests, company was not able to stop the deforestation

(Date of access: 11.09.2017)
Unilever official website – Official documents [E-source] – URL: https://www.unilever.ru/Images/3infolabor12article_tcm1315-485039_ru.pdf (Date of access: 12.09.2017)
Forbes – Unilever and the failure of CSR [E-source] – URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/econostats/2017/03/15/unilever-and-the-failure-of-corporate-social-responsibility/#51d774c3498d (Date of access: 07.09.2017)
The Guardian –Oxfam multinational companies failing CSR [E-source] – URL: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/oxfam-multinational-companies-failing-csr (Date of access: 07.09.2017)
Sustaincase – Case study. How Unilever is acting on climate change by eliminating deforestation [E-source] – URL: https://sustaincase.com/case-study-how-unilever-is-acting-on-climate-change-by-eliminating-deforestation-2/ (Date of access: 11.09.2017)