During his eight years at Unilever, Michael Polk is credited with transforming the company's business in the Americas and sharpening Unilever's portfolio strategy and creating a more competitive, faster growing, innovation-driven organization.
CGT presents the most recent crop of consumer goods "Visionaries" -- 10 influential leaders who are shaping the future of their respective companies with unprecedented business and technology initiatives.
The US Department of Justice said the deal as proposed would "substantially lessen competition in three product marketsvalue shampoo, value conditioner and hairspray sold in retail stores."
Unilever announces a partnership with Recyclebank to educate consumers on how they can take small actions to make a big difference in reducing waste and water use.
Unilever enters a binding agreement to sell the global Sanex business to Colgate-Palmolive for 672 million euros while adding the Fab, Lavomatic and Vel brands to its portfolio in Colombia.
Unilever is always on task to decrease costs and maintain profits. The adoption of demand sensing and inventory optimization solutions in North America is now catching on in other markets to improve forecasts company-wide.