Website : http://www.hul.co.in/
Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is an Indian consumer goods company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is owned by Anglo-Dutch company Unilever which owns a 67% controlling share in HUL. HUL's products include foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products.
HUL was established in 1933 as Lever Brothers India Limited and, in 1956, became known as Hindustan Lever Limited, as a result of a merger between Lever Brothers, Hindustan Vanaspati Mfg. Co. Ltd. and United Traders Ltd. It is headquartered in Mumbai, India and employs over 16,500 workers, whilst also indirectly helping to facilitate the employment of over 65,000 people. The company was renamed in June 2007 as “Hindustan Unilever Limited”.
Lever Brothers first commenced operations in India in the summer of 1888, when crates full of Sunlight soap bars, embossed with the words "Made in England by Lever Brothers" were shipped to the Kolkata harbour and it began an era of marketing branded Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG).
Hindustan Unilever's distribution covers over 2 million retail outlets across India directly and its products are available in over 6.4 million outlets in the country. As per Nielsen market research data, two out of three Indians use HUL products.
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. Eighteen of HUL's brands featured in the ACNielsen Brand Equity list of 100 Most Trusted Brands Annual Survey (2012), carried out by Brand Equity, a supplement of The Economic Times.
The "most trusted brands" from HUL in the top 100 list (their rankings in brackets) are: Clinic Plus (4), Lifebuoy (10), Fair & Lovely (11), Rin (12), Surf Excel (13), Lux (14), Pepsodent (17), Closeup (19), Pond’s (20), Sunsilk (26), Dove (37), Vim (43), Pears (79), Lakme (81), Vaseline (86), Wheel (87), Hamam (95) and Rexona (96).
The latest launches for Hindustan Unilever include: Surf Excel Easywash; Lakmé eyeconic range; Vim Anti Germ bar;Pureit Marvella UV with Advance Alert System; TRESemmé: For Salon style hair at home everyday; Clinic Plus: Milk Protein Formula A++; Comfort 1 Rinse; Bru Exotica Guatemala; Closeup: Deep Action; Dove Hair Fall Rescue Treatment; Taaza: Taazgi bhari chaai, dimaag khul jaaye.
The company has a distribution channel of 6.3 million outlets and owns 35 major Indian brands. Its brands include:
Food brands:
- Annapurna salt and atta
- Bru coffee
- Brooke Bond (3 Roses, Taj Mahal, Taaza, Red Label) tea
- Kissan squashes, ketchups, juices and jams
- Lipton tea
- Knorr soups & meal makers and soupy noodles
- Kwality Wall's frozen dessert
- Modern Bread, ready to eat chapattis and other bakery items
- Magnum (ice cream)
- Active Wheel detergent
- Cif Cream Cleaner
- Comfort fabric softeners
- Domestos disinfectant/toilet cleaner
- Rin detergents and bleach
- Sunlight detergent and colour care
- Surf Excel detergent and gentle wash
- Vim dishwash
- Magic – Water Save
- Aviance Beauty Solutions
- Axe deodorant and aftershaving lotion and soap
- LEVER Ayush Therapy ayurvedic health care and personal care products
- Breeze beauty soap
- Clear anti-dandruff hair products
- Clinic Plus shampoo and oil
- Close Up toothpaste
- Dove skin cleansing & hair care range: bar, lotions, creams and anti-perspirant deodorants
- Denim shaving products
- Fair & Lovely skin-lightening products
- Hamam
- Lakmé beauty products and salons
- Lifebuoy soaps and handwash range
- Liril 2000 soap
- Lux soap, body wash and deodorant
- Pears soap
- Pepsodent toothpaste
- Pond's talcs and creams
- Rexona soap
- Sunsilk shampoo
- Sure anti-perspirant
- Vaseline petroleum jelly, skin care lotions
- TRESemmé
- TIGI