Company profile

Future of Unilever

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Rank
916
| Quantumrun Global 1000

Unilever is a Dutch-British transnational consumer goods company that provides products which include beverages, personal care products, food, and cleaning agents. It is the biggest consumer goods company in the globe measured by 2012 revenue. Unilever is the biggest manufacturer in the world of food spreads, such as margarine. Unilever is one of the oldest multinational companies. The company is co-headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and London, United Kingdom

Home Country:
Industry:
Household and Personal Products
Website:
Founded:
1929
Global employee count:
168832
Domestic employee count:
Number of domestic locations:
1

Financial Health

3y average revenue:
$50854000000 EUR
Funds in reserve:
$3382000000 EUR
Revenue from country
0.43
Market country
Revenue from country
0.32

Asset Performance

  1. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Personal care
    Product/Service revenue
    20172000000
  2. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Foods
    Product/Service revenue
    12524000000
  3. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Home care
    Product/Service revenue
    10009000000

Innovation assets and Pipeline

Global brand rank:
331
Total patents held:
366

All company data collected from its 2015 annual report and other public sources. The accuracy of this data and the conclusions derived from them depend on this publicly accessible data. If a data point listed above is discovered to be inaccurate, Quantumrun will make the necessary corrections to this live page. 

DISRUPTION VULNERABILITY

Belonging to the household products sector means this company will be affected directly and indirectly by a number of disruptive opportunities and challenges over the coming decades. While described in detail within Quantumrun’s special reports, these disruptive trends can be summarized along the following broad points:

*First off, advances in nanotech and material sciences will result in a range of materials that are stronger, lighter, heat and impact resistant, shapeshifting, among other exotic properties. These new materials will enable significantly novel design and engineering possibilities that will impact the manufacture of future household products.
*Artificial intelligence systems will discover new thousands of new compounds faster than humans that can, compounds that can be applied to everything from creating new makeup to more effective kitchen cleaning soaps.
*The booming population and wealth of developing nations in Africa and Asia will represent the largest growth opportunities for household product sector companies.
*The shrinking cost and increasing functionality of advanced manufacturing robotics will lead to further automation of factory assembly lines, thereby improving manufacturing quality and costs.
*3D printing (additive manufacturing) will increasingly work in tandem with future automated manufacturing plants to drive down the costs of production even further by the early 2030s.
*As the manufacturing process of household goods becomes entirely automated, it will no longer be cost-effective to outsource the production of products overseas. All manufacturing will be done domestically, thereby cutting labor costs, shipping costs, and time to market.

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