Unilever – which has strong anchor portfolios across the CPG landscape including food & personalized nutrition, beauty & personal care, and home care – saw continued strong in-home consumer demand for its core ice cream brands and double-digit sales for Hellmann s Mayonnaise in Q1 2021.
Underlying sales growth in North America increased 4.3% for the quarter across all its consumer products categories driven by continued demand for foods consumed at home, said the company. We expect that demand for hygiene and in-home foods will remain higher than pre-COVID levels although we will start to lap strong comparators, and we ll see some slowing, said Unilever CEO Alan W. Jope on the company s Q1 2021 earnings call last week.
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March 11, 2021
C3, which hosts over 200 digital kitchens, is now supporting The Ice Cream Shop, a virtual frozen novelty concept created in 2019 by the world s largest ice cream-maker, Unilever, according to a company press release.
C3 is hosting 17 locations in Chicago, as well as Los Angeles, Orange County and Oakland in California, but plans to expand the partnership to its network of digital kitchens nationwide throughout 2021. Our new partnership with Unilever underscores C3 s diversified business model and ability to create solutions across the food industry, C3 Founder and CEO Sam Nazarian said in the release. C3 is proud to offer The Ice Cream Shop a seamless fulfillment process through our nationwide ghost kitchen network to match the growing demand for enjoying ice cream at home.
Unilever has made some bold commitments for 2021. As this year draws to a close and Veganuary approaches, Food Manufacture unpacks its plant-based plans.
On 18 November, Unilever announced plans to achieve global plant-based protein and dairy alternatives sales of
€1bn within the next five to seven years. Much was made at the time about how ambitious these targets were, but the company was hardly new to the sector.
The Vegetarian Butcher, the business’s plant-based brand, has been rolling out its meat replacement lines across Europe since
its acquisition in December 2018. Its position at the vanguard of this campaign is therefore unsurprising, especially given its November 2019 agreement to supply plant-based patties for Burger King’s Rebel Whopper in 25 European countries, the Middle East and Africa. This has since been followed up through the quick service restaurant (QSR) chain with plant-based nuggets. Penetration into foodservi