Business Communication: Executive Summary of Unilever Plan

This report presents an executive summary of Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan, highlighting the company's commitment to sustainable business practices. Unilever aims to integrate sustainability into its core operations, focusing on creating growth, managing risk, and controlling costs. The plan emphasizes sustainable sourcing, promoting health and well-being, and ensuring equal opportunities. Unilever's vision is to twin the size of its business while decreasing its ecological footprint and increasing its positive social impact. The summary outlines Unilever's progress in areas such as improving hygiene, reducing environmental impact, and promoting human rights. The company's strategy includes sustainable brands, scaling for impact, and delivering on its plan. The report references Unilever's goals, including helping more than a billion people improve their health and hygiene and reducing its environmental impact through initiatives like eco-friendly packaging and eliminating deforestation. Overall, the executive summary underscores Unilever's efforts to address environmental, social, and economic issues, emphasizing the importance of sustainable living in a changing world.

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Summary on Unilever
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Executive summary on Unilever Sustainable Living Plan
Unilever discovered that undertaking business sustainably as possible and the products
that include sustainability into their proposal is more attracting and appealing to the customers.
Unilever has an easy concept and that is to make every day sustainable. Unilever is educating its
team on how sustainability can create growth, manage risk, and control costs. Unilever is trying
to create an innovative way of doing trade. A business model in which all the raw material will
come from sustainable sources, people's health and well-being is the priority and giving women
equal rights and opportunities at the workplace.
Unilever makes products that help people make a difference in their life. Unilever has
varieties in nutritious food products, domestic care essentials, ice creams, uplifting teas, deluxe
shampoos, and reasonable disease prevention soaps. Unilever has 400 loved brands that are
available in more than 190 countries. Unilever has two billion consumers that use their products.
In 2014 Unilever recorded 48.4 billion sales. 172000 employees are working in Unilever
worldwide (Unilever, 2015). Unilever's vision is to twin the size of the business while decreasing
the ecological footprint and increasing the encouraging social impact. Unilever is working hard
to put sustainable living at the heart of brands. This helps in increasing sales, engaging
customers, and creates efficiencies.
Unilever is developing well near its first big goal of serving more than a billion
customers to advance their health and hygiene. In 2014 Unilever helped 25 million people to
access the toilet (press release, 2014). The second big goal is to reduce ecological impact.
Unilever decided to create efficiencies and cut costs that will help to improve the margins.
Unilever started to pack laundry liquids in eco-packs. Eco-packs have 70% fewer plastic that
reduces greenhouse gases. In 2014 eco-packs were accepted positively and in 2015 Unilever
decided to launch them across Europe. Unilever has eliminated the weight of Eiffel tower of non-
hazardous waste to landfill since 2008.

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Unilever’s business vision
In 2015 Unilever started promoting for eliminating deforestation. Eliminating
deforestation will help in battling climate change. Unilever started to deal with smallholder
farmers to enhance their livelihoods. Unilever also promotes water, sanitation, and hygiene.
Unilever is working towards universal access to safe drinking water, hygiene, and sanitation. By
focusing on these elements Unilever can help in addressing two goals that are battling climate
change and endorsing human development. Unilever wants to improve the livelihoods of people.
In 2015 Unilever published its first human rights report following the new UN guiding
principles.
Unilever realized that they can vary a huge difference to some of the world's
environmental, social, and economic issues. Unilever can never achieve its vision alone and is
always open for feedback and recommendation. In an unstable world that is fronting climate
change and growing, population brands need to look after the climatic conditions. Unilever is
trying to grow with keeping climate change in mind. To succeed in this objective it is essential
for society to change a little bit for making a big difference in climate change.
Sustainable living
Cost leverage and efficiency
with less waste and less risk
Innovation, Marketing,
and investment in
sustainable innovation and
collabration
Sustainability
growth

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References
press release, U. (2014, September 27). Unilever to help 25 million people gain improved toilet
access. Retrieved March 06, 2020, from Press Release:
https://www.unilever.com/news/press-releases/2014/14-09-27-Unilever-pledges-to-help-
25-million-people-gain-improved-access-to-toilets.html
Unilever. (2015, May 05). Unilever sees sustainability supporting growth. Retrieved March 06,
2020, from the Press release:
https://www.unilever.com/news/press-releases/2015/Unilever-sees-sustainability-
supporting-growth.html