Unilever Sri Lanka

Unilever Sri Lanka
IndustryConsumer goods
PredecessorLever Brother Ceylon Limited (1938–1991)
Unilever Ceylon (1991–1996)
Founded1938; 86 years ago (1938)
HeadquartersColombo, Sri Lanka
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Carl Cruz (Chairman)[1]
Products
  • Skin care
  • personal care
  • cleaning agents
  • drinks
  • food
  • toothpaste
  • baby food
  • pet food
  • chewing gum
  • pharmaceutical and consumer health care
  • pregnancy test
Brands
Number of employees
1,900 (2020)[2]
ParentUnilever
SubsidiariesBrooke Bond Ceylon (Pvt) Limited
Ceytea (Pvt) Limited
Lever Brothers (Exports and Marketing) (Pvt) Limited
Maddema Trading Company (Pvt) Limited
Unilever Sri Lanka Limited
Unilever Lipton Ceylon Limited[3]
Websiteunilever.com.lk

Unilever Sri Lanka is a Sri Lankan consumer goods company located in Colombo.[4] It is wholly owned by Unilever, a British multinational consumer goods company. Its products include food, beauty products, personal care, pharmaceuticals, and baby products. Unilever Sri Lanka was established in 1938 as Lever Brother Ceylon Limited. In 1972, it was renamed Unilever Sri Lanka. The company has been ranked as Most Valuable and Strongest Brand[5] and Most Respected Entity.[6] The company has over two dozen brands that are market leaders in Sri Lanka since the 1940s. Unilever operates from a factory complex in an industrial zone of Horana since 2012. About 96% of the company's products are manufactured locally, and more than twenty of its brands are exported outside Sri Lanka.[7]

  1. ^ "Carl Cruz takes over as Chairman of Unilever Sri Lanka". EconomyNext. 16 March 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Our Company". Unilever Sri Lanka. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  3. ^ Unilever, 10 February 2021 (23 February 2021). "Annual report and accounts 2020" (PDF). Unilever.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Contact form". Unilever Sri Lanka. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Sri Lanka's most valuable and strongest brands" (PDF). Brand Finance. April 2018.
  6. ^ subra. "MOST RESPECTED 2019". LMD. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  7. ^ "Unilever Sri Lanka ranked 'No.1 Employer' for 9th consecutive year | Daily FT". www.ft.lk. Retrieved 10 April 2021.