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Awards & Felicitations

Testimony to our journey as a purpose-led, future-fit business

FY 2022- 2023

ESG KPMG award

Companies with purpose last

  • Received the Best Company award in ESG practices in the Consumer Products sector on all three facets of E, S, & G at the KPMG India ESG Excellence Awards 2023.
  • Top performer in FMCG category in Dun & Bradstreet's India’s Top 500 Companies list 2022.
  • Overall winner across Asia in the ‘Best Supply Chain Solution’ category at the Adam Smith Treasury Award.
  • Supply Chain Company of the Year by Governing Council of the Institute of Supply Chain and Management Private Limited.
  • No. 1 Employer of Choice across sectors, based on brand perception study by InsideIIM at target B-Schools in 2022.
  • Doom Dooma and Sonepat factory won at the CII - National Energy Efficiency Circle Awards.
  • Doom Dooma manufacturing won under the ‘Employment Enhancing Skills’ category at the Annual Greentech CSR Award 2022.
  • Recognised as one of the Best Organisations for Women 2023 by Economic Times.
  • Received the Certificate of Recognition at the 22nd ICSI National Awards for Excellence in Corporate Governance, for adopting and promoting exemplary corporate governance practices.

Brands with purpose grow

200+ brand awards received. Key awards:

  • Dove Stop the Beauty Test 2.0 campaign won gold at FOMA for best cause campaign.
  • Lakmé and HUL’s Premium Beauty Business Unit won at the FE FutureTech Awards 2022.
  • Vim’s ‘Nazariya Badlo, Dekho Bartano Se Aage’ campaign won the ‘Un-stereotype’ award at Kantar’s Creative Effectiveness Awards 2022.
  • Eight of our brands featured in the Kantar Brandz 2022 India’s Most Valuable Brands list.
  • Best Client Insight Team of the year by the Market Research Society of India, won six more awards across different categories.

People with purpose thrive

  • Sanjiv Mehta named CEO of the Year by Business Standard.
  • Sanjiv Mehta received the ICAI Hall of Fame award.
  • Sanjiv Mehta received the SKOCH Lifetime Achievement award.
  • Sanjiv Mehta acknowledged as an individual changemaker for creating social impact by SABERA.
  • Ritesh Tiwari named CA CFO-For Large Corporates – Manufacturing.& Infrastructure at ICAI Awards 2023.
  • Ritesh Tiwari awarded CFO of the Year at CII CFO Excellence Awards.
  • Deepak Subramanian won Marketer of the Year under ‘Home Care’ categories at the IAA Leadership Awards 2022.
  • Madhusudhan Rao won Marketer of the Year under ‘Personal Care’ categories at the IAA Leadership Awards 2022.
  • Anuradha Razdan was recognised with Distinguished Alumni Awards by XLRI.

FY 2021 - 2022

India awards

Companies with purpose last

  • Outstanding Company of the Year by CNBC-TV18 at the 17th India Business Leader Awards (IBLA)
  • FICCI CSR Award 2019-20 under Fight Against COVID-19 category
  • No. 1 Employer across sectors as per InsideIIM's 2021 brand perception study
  • Winner of All India Management Association's 8th Business Responsibility Summit & Project Excellence Contest & Awards in the COVID-19 category
  • Sustainable Factory of the Year Award for HUL’s Pondicherry Home and Personal Care Factory at the 12th edition of Frost & Sullivan and TERI's Sustainability 4.0 Awards 2021
  • HUL’s factory in Dapada recognised by World Economic Forum as Advanced 4th Industrial lighthouse
  • Brand of the Year at The Impact Influencer Awards 2021
  • Champion in leading practices in Diversity & Inclusion at the People-first HR Excellence Awards 2021
  • New Code of Work Award 2021 by People Strong
  • Our community initiative, Prabhat won a Silver by Integrated Health & Wellbeing Council for COVID-19 relief work
  • Winner of the 2021 Swasthya & Kalyan category award by SABERA
  • Client of the Year at the Effie Awards 2021
  • Media client of the year at the EMVIES 2022

Brands with purpose grow

80+ Awards received. Key awards:

  • Lifebuoy's Hackwashing campaign won a Cannes Bronze Lion Award
  • Nature Protect awarded the Best Healthcare Brand by The Economic Times
  • Dove's #StopTheBeautyTest campaign won a Silver Cannes Lion Award
  • Boost Stamina Metre campaign won EMVIES Gold for Best Media Innovation
  • Domex won EMVIES Silver for Best Response to COVID-19
  • Surf excel won a Big Bang Gold for Colours of Togetherness campaign
  • Lifebuoy won Media Abby Gold for world’s largest COVID-19 campaign
  • Sunlight won a Gold at the Festival of Media Awards for Bringing Colours Back in West Bengal Campaign
  • Active Wheel Ghar Se Career campaign won three Silver and one Bronze at EMVIES
  • Brooke Bond Red Label won E4M influencer Gold for its Far But Together campaign

People with purpose thrive

  • Our CEO and Managing Director, Sanjiv Mehta was conferred with the Business Today MindRush 2021 Award for Best CEO – Medium Company
  • Our Executive Director, Human Resources, Anuradha Razdan, was awarded the CHRO of the Year Award at the People First HR Excellence Awards 2021
  • Our CEO & MD, Sanjiv Mehta won the Exchange4Media Group's (Business World) Impact Person of the Year Award 2022
  • Priya Nair, our Executive Director, Beauty & Personal Care (Till March 31, 2022) featured in Fortune India’s Most Powerful Women in Business 2021 list

FY 2020 - 2021

  • Best Governed Company Award by the Asian Centre for Corporate Governance & Sustainability at the 7th Asia Business Responsibility eSummit & Awards Ceremony
  • Grant Thorton SABERA* 2020 ‘Responsible Business of the Year’ Award
    *Social and Business Enterprise Responsible Awards
  • ‘The Shower' a film by HUL on water conservation won the 67th National Film Awards in the 'Non-Feature Films' category
  • ‘Waste No More Digital Curriculum’ partnering Xynteo won the FICCI Smart Urban Innovation Award in the Smart Education category
  • Wockhardt Foundation’s CSR Shining Star Award for work on COVID-19
  • Bronze award at IPRCCA 2020 for Best Public Awareness Campaign During a Pandemic
  • HUL's Sanjiv Mehta received the prestigious Pralhad P Chhabria Memorial Global Award for his Outstanding Contribution to the FMCG Industry
  • Sanjiv Mehta awarded the prestigious AIMA – JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award 2020
  • Sanjiv Mehta conferred with the esteemed Sir Jehangir Ghandy Medal for Industrial and Social Peace by XLRI
  • Our Executive Director, Human Resources, Anuradha Razdan acknowledged as one of India's Most Powerful Women by Business Today for successfully driving the diversity agenda
  • Silver award at IPRCCA 2020 for the Best Use of PR for #HULStandsWithTheNation COVID campaign
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