Our first priority is to be a successful business and that means investing for growth and balancing short-term and long-term interests. It also means caring about our consumers, employees and shareholders, our business partners and the world in which we live.

To succeed requires the highest standards of behaviour from all of us. The general principles contained in the Unilever Code of Business Principles set out these standards. Standards which have practical value in our day-to-day business and which we follow in spirit as well as in letter.