Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Economics, Management, Law and Education (EMLE 2020)

Analysis on the Opportunities and Challenges of Unilever’s Differentiated Competition by Using SWOT and PEST

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Yiming Cheng
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Yiming Cheng
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10.2991/aebmr.k.210210.044How to use a DOI?
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Unilever, differential competitive advantages, SWOT, PEST, opportunities and challenges
Abstract

The outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020 has brought downturn to the global economy and many companies went bankrupt during the epidemic. However, according to Unilever’s financial report for the first half year, its sales fell only by 1.6% and its financial situation is still stable. The reason for it is not only for Unilever’s action of taking Covid-19 as normalization, but also for its differentiation strategies, which make Unilever a competitive enterprise when the consumer products are in demand in Covid-19. Through the literature research method, this article uses the combination of SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) and PEST (political, economic, social and technological factors) models to explore the internal and external environments of Unilever in 2020, and concludes that under the multiple impacts of the external environment, Unilever still has great opportunities to make development relying on its own excellent internal conditions.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Economics, Management, Law and Education (EMLE 2020)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
21 February 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-337-0
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2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/aebmr.k.210210.044How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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