19世纪90年代,William Heskith Lever,Lever Bros公司(联合利华的前身)的创始人,为他具有革命性的新产品—Sunlight香皂制定了产品理念,即“使清洁工作变得更容易,帮助妇女减轻家务负担,促进健康,焕发个人魅力,让我们的使用者生活更美好”。联合利华一直以来不断开发新的产品,致力于改善人们的生活,比如帮助人们减少花在家务上的时间;增加食品的营养;使品尝食物成为享受;让人们开始更多的关注起自身、家庭和衣物等。联合利华在中国的历史可追溯至80年前,利华兄弟在上海黄浦江畔建立了中国肥皂有限公司。1986年,联合利华重返中国,始终把成为中国化的跨国公司作为其努力的目标,并取得了显著的进展。2004年,联合利华决定在上海建立公司总部办公楼,作为中国地区总部。联合利华在中国的业务主要分为三块:
- 家庭及个人护理用品,联合利华股份有限公司, 品牌有:中华、洁诺、夏士莲、力士、旁氏、多芬、凡士林,奥妙和金纺;
- 食品,联合利华食品(中国)有限公司,联合利华独资企业,主要品牌包括家乐和立顿。生产家乐牌鸡精、鸡粉、速食汤料、色拉酱、花生酱、立顿红茶、绿茶,茉莉花茶等;
- 冰淇淋,和路雪(中国)有限公司,联合利华独资企业,生产梦龙、百乐宝、可丽波、可爱多等和路雪冰淇淋。
Unilever’s mission statement is ‘meeting the everyday needs of people everywhere’, and the multinational definitely has a huge and expanding global reach. Unilever proudly declares that every day 150 million people are choosing their brands ‘to feed their families and clean their homes’. Unilever is one of the world’s top makers of packaged consumer goods and moves countless products like deodorants, fragrances, soap, margarine, tea and frozen foods all over the world. The corporation sells products in over 150 countries and has annual sales of approximately $ 46 billion (£31,5bn). Unilever controls subsidiaries in at least 90 countries and employs 295,000 (in 2000) people [1]. Unilever is one of the world’s top three food firms -after Nestle and Kraft- and the world’s second largest packaged consumer goods company –behind Procter & Gamble.
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