INTRODUCTION

Type Public company BSE: 500696

Industry Fast Moving Consumer Goods FMCG)

Founded 1933

Headquarters Mumbai, India

Key people Harish Manwani (Chairman), Nitin Paranjpe (CEO and

Managing Director)

Products Home & Personal Care, Food & Beverages

Revenue 17,523.80 crore (US$ 3.98 billion) (2009-2010) [1]

Employees Over 65,000 direct & indirect employees

Parent Unilever Plc (52%)

Website www.hul.co.in

HUL was formed in 1933 as Lever Brothers India Limited and came into being in 1956 as
Hindustan Lever Limited through a merger of Lever Brothers, Hindustan Vanaspati Mfg. Co. Ltd.
and United Traders Ltd. It is headquartered in Mumbai, India and has an employee strength of
over 15,000 employees and contributes to indirect employment of over 52,000 people. The
company was renamed in June 2007 as “Hindustan Unilever Limited”.

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is India's largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods Company,
touching the lives of two out of three Indians with over 20 distinct categories in Home &
Personal Care Products and Foods & Beverages. The company’s Turnover is Rs. 17,523 crores
(for the financial year 2009 - 2010).

Hindustan Unilever Limited is the Indian arm of Unilever, a fortune 500 transnational selling
Foods and Home and Personal Care brands in about 100 countries worldwide.

Hindustan Unilever is one of India’s Largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods Companies. Our
mission is to "add vitality to life." We meet everyday needs for nutrition, hygiene, and personal
care with brands that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life.

Their diverse brands are household names across the country:

HUL is a subsidiary of Unilever, one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast moving consumer
goods with strong local roots in more than 100 countries across the globe with annual sales of
about €40 billion in 2009 Unilever has about 52% shareholding in HUL.

Hindustan Unilever was recently rated among the top four companies globally in the list of
“Global Top Companies for Leaders” by a study sponsored by Hewitt Associates, in partnership
with Fortune magazine and the RBL Group. The company was ranked number one in the Asia-
Pacific region and in India.

The mission that inspires HUL's more than 15,000 employees, including over 1,400 managers, is
to help people feel good, look good and get more out of life with brands and services that are
good for them and good for others.  It is a mission HUL shares with its parent company,
Unilever, which holds about 52 % of the equity.