Dove Soap

Shares in the maker of Dove soap and Ben and Jerry's ice cream climbed as much as four per cent on Thursday, after it joined rivals such as Nestle and Procter & Gamble in reporting strong sales of food and cleaning products respectively in the pandemic.

Globally, more than a hundred Unilever brands will have the word "normal" removed to describe skin type or hair texture, and replaced with terms such as "grey hair" for shampoos or "moisture replenish" for skin creams by March next year.

Dove soap maker Unilever will remove the word "normal" from its beauty and personal care products, as well as stop digital alterations of body shapes and skin colour of models used in its advertising in a push to be more inclusive.

Kraft had wanted to buy Unilever to build a global consumer goods giant but its offer was flatly rejected on Friday by the maker of Lipton tea and Dove soap.

Unilever said on Monday that it will buy US-based Seventh Generation, its latest deal aimed at boosting the faster-growing part of its business.

Demand for its higher-end brands, from Dove soaps to Pond's face creams, helped Hindustan Unilever beat analysts' profit forecast for the fourth quarter, despite a drought that weighed on sales growth for India's largest consumer goods firm.

Hindustan Unilever is Asia's largest consumer goods maker by market capitalisation and sells products such as Lux soap, Lipton tea and Dove shampoos through thousands of mom-and-pop stores as well as big retailers across the country, making it a barometer of Indian consumer sentiment.

Shares in the maker of Dove soap and Ben and Jerry's ice cream climbed as much as four per cent on Thursday, after it joined rivals such as Nestle and Procter & Gamble in reporting strong sales of food and cleaning products respectively in the pandemic.

Globally, more than a hundred Unilever brands will have the word "normal" removed to describe skin type or hair texture, and replaced with terms such as "grey hair" for shampoos or "moisture replenish" for skin creams by March next year.

Dove soap maker Unilever will remove the word "normal" from its beauty and personal care products, as well as stop digital alterations of body shapes and skin colour of models used in its advertising in a push to be more inclusive.

Kraft had wanted to buy Unilever to build a global consumer goods giant but its offer was flatly rejected on Friday by the maker of Lipton tea and Dove soap.

Unilever said on Monday that it will buy US-based Seventh Generation, its latest deal aimed at boosting the faster-growing part of its business.

Demand for its higher-end brands, from Dove soaps to Pond's face creams, helped Hindustan Unilever beat analysts' profit forecast for the fourth quarter, despite a drought that weighed on sales growth for India's largest consumer goods firm.

Hindustan Unilever is Asia's largest consumer goods maker by market capitalisation and sells products such as Lux soap, Lipton tea and Dove shampoos through thousands of mom-and-pop stores as well as big retailers across the country, making it a barometer of Indian consumer sentiment.