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Unilever

Unilever is a multinational consumer goods company, created in 1929 by the merger of the Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie and the British soap maker Lever Brothers. Today, it is one of the world's largest and oldest consumer goods businesses, producing personal care, home care, food, and refreshment products, with a portfolio of over 400 brands available in 190 countries. Products are manufactured in Unilever’s 300 factories and by 700 third-party manufacturers, with an estimated 2.5 billion people globally using Unilever's products and brands. Recently, the company opened a new global Foods Innovation Centre on the campus of Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

Summary

Unilever demonstrates strong performance overall and ranks seventh in the food and agriculture sector with a score of 36.1 out of 100. It displays leadership in the community and marketplace as well as compensation and benefits measurement areas, ranking first and third, respectively. It has an opportunity to improve in the health and well-being measurement area, where it performs moderately.

Unilever is one of the 10 companies that discloses that its primary carer leave policy is aligned to the ILO standard of at least 14 weeks and one of the 15 companies that discloses that its secondary carer leave policy is aligned to the ILO standard of at least 2 weeks. Like many other companies, it has a public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, as well as a violence and harassment policy for its employees and requires its suppliers to have an effective remediation process for addressing violence and harassment grievances of their workers.

Unilever has an opportunity to disclose its remediation process for addressing violence and harassment grievances in the workplace. Like most other companies, Unilever has an opportunity to improve on disclosing gender-disaggregated occupational function and promotion data, the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations for each employee category, as well as strengthening its commitment to preventing violence and harassment in its supply chain, e.g. through requiring its suppliers to conduct trainings on this topic or to have dedicated policies in one or more local languages.

Ranking position: #19 /112
Total score: 36.1 /100

Measurement area	Score	Rank (0-112)
Governance and strategy	#1 6.4 /20	#29
Representation	#1 4.4 /17.5	#39
Compensation and benefits	#1 7.7 /17.5	#3
Health and well-being	#1 4.4 /17.5	#58
Violence and harassment	#1 3.3 /17.5	#51
Marketplace and community	#1 10.0 /10	#1
Total score	36.1 /100	#19

Value chain element	Score
Workplace	9.8 /35
Supply chain	9.8 /35

Segment
Food and Agriculture	#7

More about the company

Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Number of employees: 127000
Percentage of female employees: 36%
Group revenue: USD 64,410 billion
Ownership structure: Publicly listed
Website: https://www.unilever.com/