Small businesses and AI: Accelerating innovation and inclusion

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Highly confident, women entrepreneurs still face systemic barriers

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How data and AI can drive change: 4 ways forward

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Unlocking the power of small businesses to drive climate-smart inclusive growth

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Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Beauty &amp; Personal Care, Home Care, and Foods &amp; Refreshment products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2.5 billion consumers a day. It has 161,000 employees and generated sales of €53.7 billion in 2017. Over half (57%) of the company’s footprint is in developing and emerging markets. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes all over the world, including Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann’s, Lipton, Wall’s, PG Tips, Ben &amp; Jerry’s, Magnum and Lynx. Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) underpins the company’s strategy and commits to:• Helping more than a billion people take action to improve their health and well-being by 2020• Halving the environmental impact of our products by 2030• Enhancing the livelihoods of millions of people by 2020Unilever was ranked number one in its sector in the 2017 Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In the FTSE4Good Index, it achieved the highest environmental score of 5. It led the list of Global Corporate Sustainability Leaders in the 2017 GlobeScan/SustainAbility annual survey for the seventh year running, and achieved four A ratings across Climate Change, Water, Forests and Supplier Engagement in CDP’s 2018 Global Supply Chain report.Unilever has pledged to become carbon positive in its operations by 2030, and to ensure 100% of its plastic packaging is fully reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.&nbsp;For more information about Unilever and its brands, please visit&nbsp;<a href="https://www.unilever.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px;">www.unilever.com</a>.&nbsp;For more information on the USLP:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.unilever.com/sustainable-living/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px;">www.unilever.com/sustainable-living/</a>

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Unilever Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Beauty & Personal Care, Home Care, and Foods & Refreshment products.

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