Unilever Philippines

Unilever Philippines Inc.

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Type	Public
Predecessor	Philippine Refining Company (PRC) (1927–1993) Unilever Philippines PRC (1993–1997)
Founded	1927
Headquarters	Paco, Manila, Philippines
Key people	Rohit Jawa - Chairman and CEO
Products	Home & Personal Care Food & Beverages
Revenue	46,691,354,596
Net income	7,509,313,003
Parent	Unilever
Website	www.unilever.com.ph

Unilever Philippines, Inc. is the Philippine subsidiary of Anglo-Dutch multinational company, Unilever. It is based in Paco, Manila. It is a manufacturer of laundry detergents and soaps, shampoos and hair conditioners, toothpastes, deodorants, skin care products, household cleaners, and toilet soaps with an annual sales of over 40 billion pesos. It employs over 1,000 people nationally.

Aside from Unilever Philippines, other Unilever subsidiaries in the country include Unilever RFM Ice Cream, Inc. (formerly, Selecta Walls, Inc.) and California Manufacturing Company (Unilever Bestfoods).

Unilever Philippines serves as part of Unilever Group N.V./plc to produce manufacture and supervise Unilever brands (like Surf, Close-Up, Clear, among others) to the Philippine market. To maintain the needs of mass production of most of the Unilever brands & products, they are also importing Unilever products from some neighboring countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and so on. Despite being based in Manila, its competitors, the Philippine subsidiaries of Procter & Gamble and Nestlé are based in Makati.

History

Unilever Philippines, Inc. was established in 1927. Known until 1993 as Philippine Refining Company (PRC), it started as an oil milling business which at its peak produced nearly 100,000 tons of coconut oil annually.

The company has been introducing new technologies into the country since the early days of its existence - margarine production in the 1930s, non-soap detergents, shampoos and toothpaste in the 1960s and 1970s and sulphonation technology and cogeneration power plant in the 1980s. The nineties has seen the company focusing on several improvements in the Environment front one of which was the introduction of the first 100% biodegradable detergent bar in the Philippines.

Logo

In 1993, the company's name was formally changed from Philippine Refining Company (PRC) to Unilever Philippines (PRC), Inc., composed to create a triangle shape, with gold and platinum icon, this brand was developed as "Paglilingkod namin sa inyo".

Unilever changed the format in 1997, where it creates a U shape, with a handwritten typeface and color blue icon, the brand is now developed by Total Quality for this real logo. The logo had been in use until June 2004.

The company started using the current Unilever corporate logo starting July 2004 and was designed by the brand consultancy Wolff Olins. It is composed of 25 icons woven together to create a U shape.

Marketing

Between early 1998 and mid-2007, each TV commercial of any Unilever brand it says at the end of commercial (with logo and voice over plus moments of silence, especially when it's on blue color on a white background): "From Unilever." Because the logo then was changed in 1997 after the Unilever-PRC logo to make a new image, the word "from Unilever" came from 1998. Later, the Unilever logo will appear after peeling in any edge in the end of the commercial, and currently using the "flip" after the commercial ends, starting in 2011.

External links

• Official website