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Unilever has removed all TRESemmé hair products from all stores for 10 days after widespread outrage over the product's advert on the Clicks website.
As part of its measures, Unilever said that it would set up an advisory board and a diversity committee after apologising for the TRESemmé advert, which it admitted was racist.
Amanda Cooke is a natural hair blogger, and one of the women behind the Cape Town Naturally Support group and Facebook page. She said the ad on the Clicks website referring to afro hair as dry and not normal was disheartening.
The company and retailer Clicks came under fire over the offensive advert on its website, which called black women’s hair 'dry, damaged, and frizzy' compared to a white woman’s hair which was labelled 'normal'.
The decision was taken following a meeting with Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema, Unilever, and Clicks folowing nationwide outrage of a racist ad for the product on the Clicks website.
Unilever and L’Oreal are two big players in the global market for skin whitening creams used in many Asian, African and Caribbean countries where fair skin is often considered desirable.
The firm, which produces Magnum ice cream, Domestos household cleaner and Lipton tea among other things, said sales edged up by 0.2% to 12.4 billion euros ($13.3 billion) from the same period a year earlier.
Heightened concerns about health and the environmental impact of industrial animal farming are pushing plant-based proteins into restaurant menus and chilled meat aisles in stores.
The findings by charity CDP suggested many companies still underestimated the dangers as scientists warn that earth’s climate system is on course to hit catastrophic tipping points.
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Dove has apologised after it came under on social media, with users accusing the brand of racism.
The Anglo-Dutch consumer goods maker said it would acquire Remgro’s 25.75% shareholding in its South African subsidiary.
It found that between 2004 and 2013, Unilever and Sime Darbys agreed not to compete with each other on certain pack sizes of margarine and edible oils.
The music video calls on Unilever to clean up alleged toxic waste from a forested southern hill station.
The Top Employers Institute has identified the top 10 companies in SA that are going the extra mile.
Over the last six months there's been a significant drop in the price of washing powder on the shelves.
Unilever sales rose by 4.3 percent, slightly ahead of analysts' expectations for a 4.2 percent gain.
Philips shares jumped more than 6 percent on Monday, the highest level since mid-2010.