Unilever awards laboratory outsource contract to Intertek Caleb Brett

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Unilever HPC R&D (Port Sunlight, England) has awarded Intertek Caleb Brett a 3 year contract, worth approximately £1.5 million in sales per year, to provide analytical testing services on an outsourced basis. Under the agreement Intertek Caleb Brett will establish a state-of-the-art analytical laboratory within Unilever’s Port Sunlight facility near Liverpool, UK from which Intertek will support the analytical needs of Unilever Home and Personal Care (HPC) R&D at Port Sunlight.

The new laboratory will inject additional resources to deliver forefront analytical support to the Research and Development categories operating at Port Sunlight. The establishment of the Intertek analytical laboratory within Unilever’s Port Sunlight facility not only delivers an optimum outsourcing solution for measurement services but also provides the platform from which Intertek can build on its mission to become the world leader in offering advanced analytical and testing services to industry across Europe and the rest of the world.

Intertek at Port Sunlight joins the expanding worldwide network of Intertek analytical laboratories injecting a substantial additional advanced instrument and expertise base which complements perfectly the high level analytical competence established under a similar Outsourcing contract with BP at Sunbury-on-Thames, UK in 2000.

Mark Loughead, CEO of Intertek Caleb Brett division says,

“We are delighted to have been chosen by Unilever as a partner for providing analytical services within Unilever’s Port Sunlight facility. Unilever’s decision to outsource these services is part of a growing trend by

world class companies, which provides tremendous opportunities to expert analytical service companies such as Intertek Caleb Brett.”

Intertek is a leading international testing, inspection and certification organisation which assesses customers' products and commodities against a wide range of safety, regulatory, quality and performance standards and in some cases, certifies the management systems of customers. Intertek has over 250 laboratories with more than 10,000 people around the world and is increasingly undertaking outsourced testing work for its customers. The Intertek Caleb Brett division serves a wide range of customers in the chemical, petroleum, personal homecare and associated industries in over 116 countries around the world. For further details, please visit www.intertek.com and www.intertek-cb.com

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods. At Unilever, world-class technology is combined with deep consumer insight to develop new products that make a real difference to people’s daily lives. The research teams interpret our consumers’ aspirations and turn them into the brands of tomorrow. Unilever Research and Development is organised along the lines of the business, i.e. into Foods and Home and Personal Care Research. Unilever R&D Port Sunlight is the major centre for global HPC research and development. The laboratory carries out research and development in support of brands such as Persil, Comfort, Dove, Lux, Sunsilk, Cif and Domestos. For further details, please visit www.unilever.co.uk or www.unilever.com

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Visit the Intertek Caleb Brett website for further details of services offered around the world.