Unilever Announces Winners Of 2012 Partner To Win Awards

Unilever announced the winners of its 2012 Partner to Win program, an initiative launched by the company in 2011 to encourage its suppliers and business partners to double the size of their business while cutting their environmental impact by half. Metsä Board won the Partner to Win award for developing lightweight and sustainable packaging products and for helping Unilever develop consumer-goods packaging. Unilever media relations manager Flip Dötsch highlighted the company's sustainability achievements including purchasing 64 percent of palm oil from sustainable sources by end of 2011, and 60 percent of paper and board used by the company come from sustainably managed forests or recycled material.