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Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home Care, Personal Care and Refreshment products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2.5 billion consumers a day.

In the United States and Canada, the portfolio includes brand icons such as: Axe, Ben & Jerry’s, Breyers, Caress, Degree, Dollar Shave Club, Dove, Good Humor, Hellmann’s, Klondike, Knorr, Lipton, Magnum, Nexxus, Noxzema, Pond’s, Popsicle, Q-tips, Seventh Generation, Simple, St. Ives, Suave, Talenti Gelato & Sorbetto, TIGI, TRESemmé and Vaseline. All of the preceding brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Unilever Group of Companies.

Unilever employs more than 8,000 people across North America – generating $9.4 billion in sales in 2019.

In 2010, Unilever started its journey to become the world’s most sustainable business. Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan encompassed more than 50 ambitious, time-bound targets and committed to:

• Helping more than a billion people take action to improve their health and well-being by 2020.
• Halving the environmental impact of our products by 2030.
• Enhancing the livelihoods of millions of people by 2020.

Just a few months after launching the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, Unilever rose to the top of the GlobeScan Sustainability survey in 2011. In August 2020, Unilever was recognized as the number one corporate sustainability leader for the tenth year in a row.

Unilever is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbols UN (Unilever N.V.-Netherlands) and UL (Unilever PLC-London). To purchase stock, please visit www.ADR.com.

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Unilever public affairs activities are governed by our global Code of Business Principles (PDF | 9MB), which establishes that Unilever neither supports political parties nor contributes to the funds of groups whose activities are calculated to promote party interests. As such, Unilever does not have a political action committee (PAC) and does not make contributions directly or indirectly to political party organizations, political candidates, or Super PACs.

Unilever companies, including our U.S. business, are encouraged to promote and defend their legitimate business interests. Unilever cooperates with governments and other organizations, both directly and through bodies such as trade associations, in the development of proposed legislation and other regulations which may affect legitimate business interests. We comply with lobbying disclosure requirements, including the U.S. Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA). The LDA website provides a searchable database of lobbying disclosure filings.

Unilever is a member of several U.S. trade associations that engage in lobbying activities on behalf of our industries. The following list identifies our major U.S. industry trade associations (membership dues of $10,000 or more) that declare lobbying expenses:

• American Cleaning Institute
• American Logistics Association
• Association of National Advertisers
• ERISA Industry Committee
• Food Marketing Institute
• Global Business Alliance
• Personal Care Product Council
• Sustainable Food Policy Alliance
• Tea Association of the USA

For information on the History of Unilever, please go to About Us -> Our History.

We appreciate your interest in our many fine products; however, we do not have a promotional program where we distribute free coupons or coupon booklets for our well-established products. We suggest that you check your local newspapers and magazines as we frequently issue coupons for many of our products.

Unilever’s goal is to provide our consumers with variety of products to meet their needs and preferences. As you know marketing is a complex function, and many business factors are taken into consideration before discontinuing a product. Consumer demand is a major factor. When the level of demand is insufficient to ensure that consumers receive a high quality product at an affordable price, a product may be discontinued. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused and suggest that you visit the Brand’s web site where you’ll find many similar products that you may find equally enjoyable.

We are accelerating our efforts towards a circular economy for plastic globally, and in North America. Learn more about our global approach to waste and packaging.

We achieved a milestone commitment of reaching 50% recycled content in plastic packaging across Unilever North America’s mass-market portfolio by the end of 2019. Recognizing the widespread confusion about the complex recycling system, Unilever North America also committed to adding clear recycling instructions to packaging for its entire mass-market portfolio by the end of 2021. Unilever has been working with How2Recycle to add clear recycling labels and will now standardize its use on all packaging in North America.

Ultimately, the goal is to close the loop and move to a space where everything you create, you can recycle, and everything you make includes recycled material. It’s quite simple but it requires a whole systems change.

Our company actively participates in industry-wide coalitions and trade associations which are working toward solutions to solid waste problems. Globally, we’re long-term collaborators with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and their New Plastics Economy initiative.

In North America, Unilever is a founding member of the Closed Loop Fund, a social impact fund investing $100 million in recycling infrastructure projects to help transform the recycling system in the United States.

Unilever is also a founding activator of the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaboration led by The Recycling Partnership, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to create a path forward toward a circular economy for plastics in the U.S. by 2025.Further, we’ve joined The Recycling Partnership in launching the Circular Economy Accelerator, a new initiative to proactively drive policy solutions to shift the U.S. towards a circular economy.

For more information on what our brands are doing and what you can do to get us closer to a circular economy, see here: https://www.unileverusa.com/about/every-day-u-does-good/.

We recognize that some consumers have questions about food ingredients produced from genetically modified (GM) agricultural crops.

Here in the US, we rely on American farmers to produce most of the agricultural raw materials used to make our products. US farmers widely use GM seeds to produce five major agricultural crops that are commonly used for food ingredients: corn, soy, canola, cottonseed and sugar beet. Therefore, historically, if a US food product was not labeled organic or labeled with information on non-GM sourcing -- and contained those five agricultural ingredients -- it was likely to have ingredients made from GM crops.

All our ingredients meet regulatory requirements and fulfill our own high standards for quality. GM crops and food ingredients produced from these crops have been safely used for decades and could play an important role in helping meet the long-term food needs of the world in a more sustainable way. The regulatory agencies and leading scientific bodies that study the safety of our food supply have found that these GM crops and food ingredients made from these crops are as safe as their conventional counterparts.

You will start seeing new “bioengineered” labels on some foods because of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard. While the regulation provides flexibility on where manufacturers provide the disclosure, Unilever will follow the most transparent practice of disclosing both on the label and online via SmartLabel™.

We recognize some consumers have a preference for foods made through specific production standards, such as foods that do not use ingredients produced from GM crops. We offer non-GM sourcing alternatives in some of our categories to meet these preferences.

For more information on the safety and benefits of GM crops and ingredients produced from these crops, please visit https://www.unileverusa.com/brands/learnaboutmyfood/.

We do not test our products on animals and are committed to ending animal testing. We use a wide range of non-animal approaches to evaluate the safety of our products for consumers, our workers and the environment. We also develop ‘next generation’ safety assessment approaches that do not rely on new animal data.

As part of our commitment to end animal testing globally, a growing number of our brands ensure that their products and ingredients are not subject to animal testing by Unilever, by our suppliers, or by regulatory authorities. These brands’ commitment to no animal testing is certified by global animal protection groups. Unilever supports calls for a worldwide animal testing ban on cosmetics by 2023.

Occasionally, across Unilever’s broader portfolio of brands, ingredients that we use still have to be tested by suppliers to comply with legal and regulatory requirements in some markets; and some government authorities test certain products on animals as part of their regulations. We are recognized by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) as a ‘company working for regulatory change’ for the work we have been doing for more than 30 years to secure the adoption of non-animal approaches.

Our leading-edge approach has one clear purpose: to continue to develop and use non-animal approaches, and let others know about the research we do to guarantee that our products are safe without the need for animal testing.

Our team of internationally recognized leaders in non-animal safety science work with regulatory authorities, NGOs, our suppliers and other scientists across the world to share our approaches, and to promote their broader acceptance by authorities. We were honored to receive the 2019 Corporate Consciousness Award from the Humane Society of the United States, recognizing the impact of our non-animal safety science in replacing animal testing.

Eggs are an ingredient used in many of our best-known food products, ranging from mayonnaises to dressings, sauces and ice cream. We take animal welfare seriously as a social and ethical concern and part of our commitment to sustainable agriculture, and we have a longstanding position on Farm Animal Welfare.

Unilever does not have egg production operations, but as a user of egg ingredients, we require the egg producers that supply us meet all regulatory requirements and industry best practices for animal welfare as a minimum. In addition, we work with our suppliers to participate in initiatives to define good animal welfare practices and improvement programs.

As part of our Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, we use 100% liquid cage-free eggs for all of our products in North America (U.S. and Canada). Our Hellmann’s mayonnaise and mayonnaise dressings use cage-free eggs which are certified by the American Humane Association, or the Association for Controlled Alternative Animal Husbandry. All of Ben & Jerry’s eggs in the United States come from hens on Certified Humane cage-free farms. We’ve received external recognition for our progress, including from the Humane Society of the United States.

We are also working toward improvements in the current standard practices of poultry-breeding companies that supply egg-laying hens to the egg farming industry. We are aware of the concerns raised about the global egg-industry standards by which breeders of egg-laying hens eliminate male chicks, following methods that are included in American Veterinary Medical Association guidelines and European Union directives. While these are standard practices of suppliers to the broad egg-farming industry and all types of egg products, and although Unilever uses only a relatively small percentage of eggs produced in the market, we take these concerns seriously.

In our corporate position statement on Farm Animal Welfare we have included our commitment to engage with the egg production industry, the animal welfare community and R&D companies to develop alternative options for the current practices.  We are ready to provide support to the market introduction of these technologies, such as in-ovo gender identification of eggs, when they are available for our suppliers.

We are pleased that the United Egg Producers, the organization representing 95% of all the nation’s egg-laying hens, has confirmed its commitment of working to eliminate the culling of male chicks through the introduction of in-ovo sexing of eggs. We are also exploring ways to further meet consumer needs for products with different nutrition profiles and preferences for plant-based protein sources through the use of egg-replacement ingredients in some product categories

Yes. Please find more information here: Advancing Human Rights in Our Extended Supply Chain, Advancing Human Rights In Our Own Operations

Go to www.unilever.com In the search area in the upper right hand corner, type in the words, “submit an idea”. Click on the link under the heading “Working with Us/Unilever Global Follow the steps listed under “Start Collaborating”.