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Unilever’s tea business a test of private equity’s conscience
A Financial Times feature says that almost 15 years after an attack on a tea plantation in Kericho, Kenya, many ...
Unilever investors fear nutritional “regulatory and reputational risks”
A Unilever shareholder resolution is urging the company to sell more healthy food. Unilever is behind Ben & Jerry’s icecream, ...
Businesses seek UN treaty harmonising plastic regulations
Unilever CEO Alan Jope has added his voice to business calls for a legally binding UN treaty to tackle plastic ...
Terry Smith vs Unilever: guilty of mayo madness?
The Financial Times says Terry Smith has mayo on his mind — and presumably on his sandwiches and salads. The ...
Unilever tea bidders had rights concerns
The Financial Times reports that two of the three final bidders for Unilever’s tea division balked at taking on the ...
How the food sector protected its own interests at COP26
With the Food Research Collaboration, I studied the United Nations’ official list of registered participants to COP26 in Glasgow.
Agrifood leaders must “re-invent capitalism” to stop climate change
Some of the world’s leading agrifood companies are behind a high-level call to re-invent capitalism and transform food systems. Rabobank, ...
Living wage across Unilever’s 60,000 suppliers announced
Unilever will spend €2 billion a year to improve conditions for workers throughout its supply chain – by 2025. The ...
Unilever: €1 billion sales target for plant-based alternatives
Unilever’s €1 billion-heft has jet propelled sustainable food into the mainstream commercial psyche. It yesterday announced the rock star sales target ...
Free, prior and informed consent required as clean energy threatens Indigenous Peoples
A new coalition of Indigenous Peoples is calling for free, prior and informed consent to be negotiated without exception as...
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