Launched in 1888, Sunlight is Unilever’s oldest brand in India. Initially Sunlight became popular as a laundry cake. But with changing consumer preference – powder detergent became more popular. As a result over the years the importance shifted to other HUL detergent brands like Surf, Rin and Wheel and Sunlight received a step motherly treatment. When HUL faced the competition from Nirma – [...]

It is the HUL laundry brand for the ‘Aspiring’ or mid-segment. It was launched in India in 1969. This range provides the benefit of ‘dazzling white cloth’ and ‘at affordable price’. This theme has been propagated through ADs showing self-confident people wearing spotless clean clothes. Recently Rin was also engaged in event sponsorship in the form of sponsoring Kid Reality Show ‘Rin Mera [...]

Wheel is the HUL detergent brand for the ‘Striving’ segment. It was launched in 1987 to cater to the mass market. Whether Wheel was the result of a reactive strategy from HUL to combat the onslaught of Nirma is a debatable issue. Over the years Wheel has becomes India’s most widely used detergent. Wheel provides the benefit of ‘heavy-duty laundry’. The color of the brand is greenish yellow [...]

Surf Excel is the HUL laundry brand for the ‘Affluent’ or premium-class. Earlier the focus of the brand was on functional attribute of whiteness as shown in this 1970s ad featuring Lalitaji as shown below. But over the year the focus of this range of detergent powder has changed to broader emotional positioning and now it claims to cater to ‘constantly changing washing needs of the Indian homemaker’. This [...]