Unilever is multinational with operating companies and factories on every continent ( except Antarctica ) and research laboratories at: Colworth and Port Sunlight in England ; Vlaardingen in the Netherlands ; Trumbull, Connecticut and Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey in the United States ; Bangalore in India ( see also Hindustan Unilever Limited ); and Shanghai in China.

Hindustan Unilever Limited ( HUL ) () is India's largest consumer goods company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

The company was renamed in June 2007 as “ Hindustan Unilever Limited ”.

The latest launches for Hindustan Unilever include:

In July, 2012 Hindustan Unilever Limited won the Golden Peacock Occupational Health and Safety Award for 2012 in the FMCG category for its safety and health initiatives and continuous improvement on key metrics.

Hindustan Unilever Ltd received the National Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance 2011 of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India ( ICSI ) for excellence in corporate governance

In 2012, Hindustan Unilever emerged as the No. 1 employer of choice for B-School students who will graduate in 2012.

In 2007, Hindustan Unilever was rated as the most respected company in India for the past 25 years by Businessworld, one of India ’ s leading business magazines.

The Hindustan Unilever Research Centre ( HURC ) was set up in 1967 in Mumbai, and Unilever Research India in Bangalore in 1997.

In 2012 Hindustan Unilever featured in BSE's Greenex-India's first environmental friendly equity index the first environmental friendly equity index, which will enable investors take more informed decisions in the green theme of India.

Hindustan Unilever ’ s corporate headquarters is located at Andheri ( E ), Mumbai.

HUL also runs Hindustan Unilever Network ( HULN ), a direct selling business arm.

In 2001 a thermometer factory in Kodaikanal run by Hindustan Unilever was accused of dumping glass contaminated with mercury in municipal dumps, or selling it on to scrap merchants unable to deal with it appropriately.

In 2008 Hindustan Unilever made former Miss World Priyanka Chopra a brand ambassador for Pond's, and she then appeared in a mini-series of television commercials for another skin lightening product, White Beauty, alongside Saif Ali Khan and Neha Dhupia ; these advertisements, showing Priyanka's face with a clearly darker complexion against the visibly fairer Neha Dhupia, were widely criticized for perpetuating racism.

* Hindustan Unilever on Wikinvest

* Official website of Hindustan Unilever Limited

* Official website of Hindustan Unilever Network, direct selling multi-level marketing business

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* M S Banga Ex-CEO, Hindustan Unilever & Senior Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

* Hindustan Lever Limited, the Indian subsidiary of Unilever Limited selling fast moving consumer goods such as tea, soap, detergents, etc.

while Hindustan Times has ranked it at the Sixth Place.

In the QS Global 200 Business Schools Report it was ranked # 2 in the Asia-Pacific region for 2012 In India, it was ranked first by the Hindustan Times India's top 50 business schools of 2011 and by the 2012 edition of CNBC-TV18's Top B-Schools in India and ranked # 3 by the Business Today 50 best business schools of 2011.

In India, it was ranked second by the Business Today 50 best business schools of 2011 and third by the Hindustan Times India's top 50 business schools of 2011 and by the 2012 edition of CNBC-TV18's Top B-Schools in India.

In India IIMB was ranked first by the Business Today 50 best business schools of 2011 and second by the Hindustan Times India's top 50 business schools of 2011 and by the 2012 edition of CNBC-TV18's Top B-Schools in India.

IIMK was ranked # 12 by the Hindustan Times India's top 50 business schools of 2011, # 10 by the 2012 edition of CNBC-TV18's Top B-Schools in India and # 6 by the Business Today 50 best business schools of 2011.

IIMI was ranked # 4 by the Business Today 50 best business schools of 2011, # 5 by the Hindustan Times India's top 50 business schools of 2011 and # 8 by the 2012 edition of CNBC-TV18's Top B-Schools in India.

PICT was ranked 16 th among the top 100 private engineering colleges in India in a year 2010 survey by LiveMint in association with the Hindustan Times and the Wall Street Journal.

XLRI was ranked # 10 by the Business Today 50 best business schools of 2011, # 8 by the Hindustan Times India's top 50 business schools of 2011 and # 5 by the 2012 edition of CNBC-TV18's Top B-Schools in India.

According to the Hindustan Times, The Hindus was a No. 1 bestseller in the non-fiction category in India in 2009.

Cheap calico prints, imported by the East India Company from " Hindustan ", had become popular.

The country of Kandahar, Ghazni and Kabul formed the frontier region between Khorasan and Hindustan.

The only major reversal to the expansion came in 1622 when Shahanshah Abbas, the Safavid Emperor of Persia, captured Kandahar while Jahangir was battling his rebellious son, Khurram in Hindustan.

He died in 1627 and was succeeded by Khurram, who took the imperial throne of Hindustan as the Emperor Shah Jahan.

Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, a poet from Hindustan who visited at the time wrote: " Dine and drink in Kabul: it is mountain, desert, city, river and all else.

" It was from here that Babur began his 1526 conquest of Hindustan, which began east of the Indus River that was ruled by the Afghan Lodi dynasty at the time.

In India Labour day was proposed on 1st of May 1923 by Mr. Singaravelan who belonged to Hindustan Labour Kissan party.

When the Durrani Afghan Empire was created by Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1747, his military fought many wars with the Punjab region of Hindustan and Persia during the 18th to the 19th century.

Most Indian males in Central India or Hindustan would have a puggaree or head-scarf, worn either as a turban or worn around a kullah and draped to protect the back of the neck.

** Rajendra Nath Lahiri, Indian Revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association ( b. 1901 )

** Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian Revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association ( b. 1897

** Thakur Roshan Singh, Indian Revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association ( b. 1892 )

** Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian Revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association ( b. 1900 )

* Jalal ud din Firuz Khilji dies and Ala-Ud-Din-Khilji comes to the throne of the Delhi Sultanate in Hindustan.

In English, Times of India, Hindustan Times, Central Chronicle and Free Press have editions from Bhopal.

The novel raises the question as to whether Hindustan ( consisting of Hindu Indians ) is a fourth Great Phyle, or a " riotously diverse collection of microtribes sintered together according to some formula we don't get.

Hindustan Photo Films, the film manufacturer, is also a major industry in Ooty.

According to the Hindustan Times, there was an incident of human sacrifice in western Uttar Pradesh in 2003.

Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab ; in Ladakh and Kashmir, in Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz, and Bokhara ... from 1819 to 1825, Vol.

It was the intention of those who wished for a Muslim state to come from British India to have a clean partition between independent and equal " Pakistan " and " Hindustan " once independence came.

* Hindustan Ki Kasam, a 1973 Hindi war film based on Operation Cactus Lilly of the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War, directed by Chetan Anand.

In India, Bangalore is a major center of the aerospace industry, where Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, the National Aerospace Laboratories and the Indian Space Research Organisation are headquartered.

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