Unilever : 90 years of doing good - why companies with purpose last

Today, in 2020, Unilever is driven by our ambition to be the world's most sustainable business.

In 190 countries around the world, our brands and operations support the big goals of our Unilever Sustainable Living Plan: helping more than a billion people improve their health and well-being, halving the environmental impact of using our products, and enhancing the livelihoods of millions of people in our supply chain.

These goals are challenging, and we'll need a powerful sense of purpose to achieve them.

But purpose isn't new for us. It was there at our formation in 1930.

Changing times. Constant ambition.

Making quality products affordable for working people. Supporting health, hygiene, and nutrition. Providing better conditions for employees. The ambitions which motivated our founding companies can still be seen in the way our brands are working to create positive change today.

Of course, times have changed since 1930. And there is still a huge amount of work we have to do as a business to 'make sustainable living commonplace'.

But we think our founders would recognise and applaud the spirit behind our sustainability ambitions. And we're sure that they'd join us in celebrating the successes of our company and our brands.

They, like us, knew that companies with purpose last.

So to mark our birthday, we're sharing some of our favourite stories from our nine decades of history.

Beginning with our people, who are at the heart of our success. Hear from some of them in our birthday film - including Elma Jones, who joined Unilever in 1934, Keerthana Kasi who joined in 1996, and Samantha Thian, who joined in 2018.

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