Unilever Nigeria Plc

  • Sector: FMCG
  • Reach: National
  • Board Gender Diversity:  7; 3
  • CSR/sustainability report: GRI Standards
  • Impact management: Nil

Unilever Nigeria Plc is a key player in the FMCG industry with a global representation of several household products.
Unilever manufactures and markets consumer products primarily in the home, personal care, and foods categories. The company sells products such as OMO washing powder, Key soap, Royco bouillon, Lipton tea, Blue Band margarine, Pears baby care goods, Vaseline petroleum jelly, Lux soap, and Close Up toothpaste. Unilever recorded a revenue of 61,959,678,000 Naira in the year 2020.

Unilever considers itself a ‘socially responsible and responsive organisation’ and as depicted in its mission, it aims to inspire people to take small everyday actions that can add up to a big difference for the world. Leadership strategies and decisions are also required to make continual improvements in management of environmental impact and achieve the longer-term goal of developing a sustainable business based on Unilever’s Global Code of Business Principles (CoBP) which includes a community involvement clause of striving to be a trusted corporate citizen and fulfilling responsibilities to communities.

Unilever Nigeria operates the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) with three set goals, namely: Improving Health and well-being for more than 1 billion people, reducing environmental impact by half, and Enhancing Livelihoods for millions. Since its inception in 2010, they have recorded a remarkable change in their communities – empowering women, protecting forests, improving health, and supporting sustainable farming.

Spotlight Initiatives

Health

Unilever Nigeria leverage its great brands to impact lives positively. In line with the social mission of health and hygiene, through brands like Knorr bouillon cubes, Pepsodent and Lifebuoy, Unilever has organized various outreach programmes that have enlightened Nigerians on the health benefits of handwashing, brushing twice a day, having iron fortified bouillon cubes and addressing iron deficiency through behavioural change campaigns.

Recycling Exchange Programme

With a mission is to achieve the full use of reusable, recyclable or compostable plastic packaging for their products Unilever and Wecyclers reached an agreement in 2018 to expand recyclable collections by utilising Wecyclers’ pilot recycling kiosk program.

In March 2020, Unilever and Wecyclers partnered to extend the collection program further through a Project Transform grant. The project helps Wecyclers further innovate on its unique waste management solution by replicating its model across different parts of Nigeria. The project, which adopts a funded franchise model to recycling, will create sustainable recycling ecosystems in different parts of Nigeria, reduce the negative impact of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottles on the environment and create new employment opportunities for many.

CSR Focus Areas
Environmental Management
Nutrition
Health
Research and Development
Women Empowerment

2020 Highlights

Notable mentions of Unilever’s initiatives in the year under review include:

  • Donation of their Sunlight products to vulnerable Nigerians through the various state governments and NGOs during the COVID-19 lockdown.
  • Provision of 10 million naira grant to support women whose businesses were affected by the #ENDSARS protests.
  • Promotion and enhancement of good health and hygiene practices through the distribution of 3,360 units of sanitizers in Abuja, Lagos, and Ogun.
  • Sunlight’s collaboration with ACT Foundation and WIMBIZ to award three female-led organisations which had been working to reduce the social impact of COVID-19 in society’s with grants of 1 million naira each.
  • Product donations worth N200 million to civil and government players with the inclusion of +16,000 COVID test kits, 6 ventilators, +1,860,000 Lifebuoy soaps.
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