(L-R) Dave Lewis, president of Unilever Personal Care Category; Phil Lever, global sales director, Lindal Group; award participant

The Lindal Group recently announced that it has earned Unilever’s prestigious Partner to Win Award for Winning Innovation, at the company’s largest-ever supplier summit, held in Singapore.
According to Unilever, the contributions of innovative suppliers are a key to its growth—cited at €10 billion since 2009, despite challenging economic conditions.  In that context, Unilever’s leaders presented Lindal Group with its innovation-themed award for co-developing the aerosol valve that allows product concentration in the Sure, Dove and Vaseline brand deodorants. The new valves are utilized in the smaller, “compressed” cans for Unilever’s Sure, Dove and Vaseline brands, now on retail shelves.