Stocks to Invest: Hindustan Unilever

Traded as: BSE: 500696
Industry: Consumer goods
Founded: 1932
Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Products: Foods, beverages, cleaning agents personal care products and water purifiers.
Revenue: Rs 30,170 crores (2014-15)
Net income: Rs 4,315 crores (2014-15)
No. of employees: 18,000

Hindustan Unilever's distribution covers over 2 million retail outlets across India directly and its products are available in over 6.4 million outlets in the country. As per Nielsen market research data, two out of three Indians use HUL products.

Food brands:

• Annapurna salt and atta 
• Bru coffee 
• Brooke Bond (3 Roses, Taj Mahal, Taaza, Red Label) tea 
• Kissan squashes, ketchups, juices and jams 
• Lipton tea
• Knorr soups & meal makers and soupy noodles 
• Kwality Wall's frozen dessert 
• Modern Bread 
• Magnum

Homecare Brands: 

• Active Wheel detergent 
• Cif Cream Cleaner 
• Comfort fabric softeners 
• Domex disinfectant/toilet cleaner 
• Rin detergents and bleach 
• Sunlight detergent and colour care 
• Surf Excel detergent and gentle wash 
• Vim dishwash 
• Magic – Water Saver

Personal Care Brands: 

• Aviance Beauty Solutions 
• Axe deodorant and aftershaving lotion and soap 
• LEVER Ayush Therapy ayurvedic health care and personal care products 
• Breeze beauty soap
• Clear anti-dandruff hair products 
• Clinic Plus shampoo and oil 
• Close Up toothpaste 
• Dove skin cleansing & hair care range: bar, lotions, creams and anti-perspirant deodorants 
• Denim shaving products 
• Fair & Lovely skin-lightening products 
• Hamam 
• Lakmé beauty products and salons 
• Lifebuoy soaps and handwash range 
• Liril 2000 soap 
• Lux soap, body wash and deodorant 
• Pears soap 
• Pepsodent toothpaste 
• Pond's talcs and creams 
• Rexona soap 
• Sunsilk shampoo 
• Sure anti-perspirant 
• Vaseline petroleum jelly, skin care lotions 
• TRESemmé 
• TIGI

Water Purifier Brand: 

•  Pureit Water Purifier

 

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