• Nicky Sparshott, Unilever CEO ANZ.
    Nicky Sparshott, Unilever CEO ANZ.
Close×

Unilever ANZ has announced it would donate more than $2m worth of essential food, home, and personal care products to Foodbank.

The announcement marked the return of Unilever’s Lifebuoy sanitiser brand to Australia, with the company donating $1m worth of the aerosol sanitiser. In addition, the company will donate $1m worth of essential homecare, personal care, and food products to Foodbank to distribute across Australia, including leading household brands Comfort; Sunsilk; Love Beauty and Planet; Simple; and Continental.

Nicky Sparshott, Unilever CEO ANZ
Nicky Sparshott, Unilever CEO ANZ

The company will redirect existing deodorant production facilities to help meet national demand for the cleaning product. The new 150-millilitre aerosol hand sanitiser contains 70 per cent alcohol and kills 99.99 per cent of germs without water. It will be manufactured in New South Wales.

Nicky Sparshott, the recently-appointed CEO of Unilever ANZ, said, “Unilever has a long history of contributing to personal hygiene in Australia and New Zealand and across the world – beginning with the creation of Sunlight soap by Lord Lever in the late 1880s.

“We believe we have a social, medical, and moral obligation to make hand hygiene readily available. That’s why we’re responding to government calls to action to increase supply of essential products by rapidly innovating and re-directing some of our Australian manufacturing.”

Food & Drink Business

Every participant across the food and packaging industry supply chain must ensure foreign contaminants are not present in the products companies deliver to their customers. Eric Confer from Eriez outlines the best practices processing plants use today to achieve the highest product purity and avoid costly tramp metal damage by using magnetic separators and metal detectors.

Wild abalone fishery and undersea wine company, Rare Foods Australia (RFA), says a downturn in global seafood demand, supply challenges, and the significant cost of being listed on the ASX are behind its decision to delist.

TasFoods says its petfood brands, Isle and Sky and Pet Treats, will benefit from its sales and distribution agreement with Natures Best (Tas) due to its “significant” retail network. Pet Solutions International is Natures Best’s parent company.