Our biggest
challenges

Water scarcity is one of the biggest crisis facing India. Water management has been a focus area for HUL, and has been made one of the key performance indicators for all HUL factories.

Sustainable efforts

Committed to efforts towards sustainable business and community building

In its 75th year of HUL’s existence in India, in 2008, our employees committed to volunteer one hour for each day that HUL has been in this country which collectively meant 27,375 hours of volunteering.

Highlights

Enhancing Livelihood

Provided income-generating opportunities to 45,000 Shakti entrepreneurs
Hygiene
120m people
Reached through Lifebuoy's hygiene education programme in India since 2002.
Greenhouse gases

Exceeded the target of reducing CO2 emissions from manufacturing operations by 25% on a base of 2004
Water

Twenty Eight of our manufacturing sites are zero water discharge sites.
Energy

The energy consumption per unit of production since 2004 has come down by 34%.
Pureit
15m people
have access to clean drinking water without boiling, electricity or running water