Unilever and Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) have
entered a global alliance to support the delivery of Unilever’s
capital investments in the future. Unilever has over 250
manufacturing sites and is expanding aggressively, mainly in
developing and emerging markets to support its ambitious growth
agenda. The company expects the emerging markets to drive around
70-75% of its growth in the long term.
The Alliance will be managed out of Singapore. It will
provide engineering services for Unilever’s manufacturing sites
around the world. Additionally, within Unilever’s aggressive
capital expansion programme, the Alliance has been forged to make
improvements in project delivery, addressing all aspects of cost,
speed to market, operations and sustainability.
Pier Luigi Sigismondi, Unilever’s Chief Supply Chain Officer
said: “This is about reinforcing our technical management
capabilities with one of the best engineering companies in the
world. It is another example of Unilever building a new business
model focused on long term sustainable value creation and not only
in opportunistic short term cost savings. We will work as a team to
ensure the sustainable growth model will benefit all, focused on
our aim to Design once and Deploy everywhere.”
The Alliance will help Unilever implement operating cost
reductions, drive co-innovation, and implement the harmonization
and cross-category standardisation of designs. It will also be
responsible for working with Unilever’s supply chain teams to
support increased speed to market and develop engineering designs
that reduce carbon, water and waste footprints across its
manufacturing sites.
Jacobs President and CEO Craig L. Martin said, “Jacobs welcomes
this challenge and appreciates Unilever’s proactive, socially
responsible approach to business. We look forward to partnering
with Unilever and contributing to their sustainable growth for many
years to come.”
Today’s announcement follows the creation of the Unilever
Engineering Services (UEnS) organisation located in Singapore. This
organisation supports challenges of scale up and speedy delivery of
our major capex projects around the world. Part of UEnS are the
Engineering Services Hub in Mumbai and several delivery teams
across the world. The Alliance team will work in a seamless way in
this new global structure.
About Unilever
Unilever works to create a better future every day. We help
people feel good, look good and get more out of life with brands
and services that are good for them and good for others.
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast moving
consumer goods with strong operations in over 100 countries and
sales in more than 180. Consumers buy 170bn Unilever packs around
the world every year, and our products are used over two billion
times a day.
Our portfolio includes some of the world’s best known and most
loved brands including twelve €1 billion brands, and global
leadership in most categories in which we operate. The portfolio
features iconic brands such as: Knorr, Dove, Lipton, Becel/Flora,
Blue Band/Rama/Country Crock, Wall’s/OLA/Langnese, Hellmann’s,
Calvé, Unox, Pond’s, Lux, Axe/Lynx, Sunsilk, Vaseline, Rexona/Sure,
Omo, Surf, Cif, Signal and Glorix/Domestos.
We have around 167,000 employees, and generated annual sales of
€44.3 billion in 2010. For more information about Unilever and its
brands, please visit www.unilever.com
In November 2010, we launched the Unilever Sustainable
Living Plan aiming to halve our overall environmental footprint.
Unilever is Food Industry Leader in the Dow Jones Sustainability
World Indexes for the 12th year running. We are included in the
FTSE4Good Index Series and attained a top environmental score of 5,
leading to inclusion in the FTSE4Good Environmental Leaders Europe
40 Index. We are also ranked 7th in the Global 100 Most Sustainable
Corporations in the World, a list compiled by Corporate Knights
Magazine. We achieved Platinum Plus standard in the UK’s Business
in the Community Corporate Responsibility
Index 2009, and were named Company of the
Year in 2010.
About Jacobs
Jacobs is one of the world's largest and most diverse providers
of technical, professional, and construction services.
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