• Unilever unit moves to increase diversity amid outrage over racist hair ad

    Unilever unit moves to increase diversity amid outrage over racist hair ad

    The South African unit of Unilever will set up an advisory board and a diversity committee after apologizing for a hair care ad it admitted was “racist,” the consumer group said Friday. The advertisement by its TRESemmé brand, was posted on drugstore Clicks website last Friday, and described images of black women’s hair as “frizzy …
  • Unilever’s business dips only slightly despite coronavirus crisis

    Unilever’s business dips only slightly despite coronavirus crisis

    Unilever’s overall business dipped only slightly in the most recent quarter despite the coronavirus crisis, propped up by surging demand from hunkered-down consumers for ice cream, soup and hand sanitizers. The Anglo-Dutch consumer-products giant said its underlying sales in the second quarter fell just 0.3 percent overall despite a massive plunge in the company’s wholesale …
  • Unilever to drop terms like ‘whitening’ from beauty products

    Unilever to drop terms like ‘whitening’ from beauty products

    Consumer products giant Unilever said Thursday it is aiming for a “more inclusive vision of beauty” in its skin care products and will remove words such as “fair,” “whitening” and “lightening” from its products, a move that comes amid intense global debate about race sparked by the Black Lives Matter movement. As part of the …