Whether you’re looking for a lube, oil and filter or a lion, elephant and hippo, the Plymouth Rotary Auction is the place to be this weekend. Local Rotarians are auctioning more than $100,000 in goods and services through 8 p.m. Sunday.
For Polman, 52, the first ‘outsider’ to the firm to take charge at Unilever in almost a century, it was his first interaction with the Indian media after becoming the CEO. The Dutchman is putting that courage to good use in Unilever. “Recession can’t be an excuse for business to go down. Rather, the crisis gives me an opportunity to set the bar higher.” Polman added that he expected the tough …
Paul Polman may have been smarting – and probably quivering a bit – when he last left Mumbai. It was soon after 26/11 and he had left his Taj dinner mid-way to escape bullets and grenades.
Ok, so I’m still catching up on blogging from last weekend. Last weekend, we went to Vina del Mar and Valparaiso, which are two cities that are connected and are only a couple hours from Santiago. But on the way there, we went to Isla Negra (named for its black sand, it’s not actually an island but it is on the coast by the ocean) and saw one of the three houses of Pablo Neruda (a chilean writer who won the nobel prize and many other awards, he’s a big deal in Chile!) This house is where he li
In his opening remarks at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, site of last November’s terrorist attacks, where he was also trapped, Unilever CEO Paul Polman said: “Nobody should give in to such threats.”
