Industry | Consumer goods |
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Predecessor | Lever Brother Ceylon Limited (1938–1991) Unilever Ceylon (1991–1996) |
Founded | 1938 |
Headquarters | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Carl Cruz (Chairman)[1] |
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Number of employees | 1,900 (2020)[2] |
Parent | Unilever |
Subsidiaries | Brooke 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] |
Website | unilever |
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]
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