Hindustan Unilever Limited has inaugurated the new Unilever Fragrance Hub (UFH) in Mumbai, reinforcing India's role as a key growth market and research and development centre. The facility is the third global hub for Unilever, following similar establishments in the UK and the US, and represents the latest investment under Unilever's overall €100 million programme to advance in-house, digitally enabled fragrance creation capabilities. The move is aimed at accelerating innovation and enhancing product experience across categories.

Facility Overview

Located at the IIT Bombay campus, the hub brings together consumer insight, advanced science, and artificial intelligence. The colocation at IIT Bombay creates opportunities to collaborate with academia in science, technology, and digital-first fragrance innovation. The India lab is a fully integrated facility for fragrance creation, application, and evaluation, utilising proprietary creation software, real-time evaluation data capture, and advanced compounding technologies.

Key details of the Unilever Fragrance Hub are outlined below:

Strategic Importance

Fragrance is a critical driver of product desirability and premiumisation. The Mumbai hub will harness India's expanding consumption base to design fragrances that can scale globally. The facility is designed to bring fragrance design, development, and evaluation closer to one of the world's fastest-growing consumer markets.

Vivek Sirohi, Head of Unilever Fragrance House, stated that the inauguration reflects continued investment in cutting-edge capabilities. He noted that the hub enables faster local response, deeper market understanding, and improved self-reliance in application and evaluation, allowing teams to design fragrances from the product and consumer context outward.

Vibhav Sanzgiri, Executive Director, R&D, Hindustan Unilever Limited, added that fragrance plays a critical role in elevating the consumer experience of everyday products. He emphasised that the facility enables teams to design, test, and refine fragrances end-to-end while collaborating seamlessly with other Unilever fragrance hubs globally. The new hub underscores Unilever's continued commitment to India as a priority market and a global centre of excellence.

Hindustan Unilever Limited will engage with analysts and institutional investors across four separate meetings scheduled between June 2 and June 8, 2026. The company's management representatives are set to attend conferences hosted by Bank of America, Citi, and ICICI Securities, as well as a virtual session organized by J.P. Morgan. These interactions provide a platform for the company to discuss its performance and outlook with the investment community.

The disclosure was made pursuant to Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015. The intimation was filed by Radhika Shah, Company Secretary & Compliance Officer of Hindustan Unilever Limited.

Schedule of Investor Meets

The following table details the upcoming investor participation: