The new innovation centre, which will employ an estimated 550 researchers, should be ready by April 2019. ‘The Agri-Food Innovation climate in The Netherlands is very strong’, explains Jan Zijderveld, president of Unilever Europe, on the websiteof Unilever. ‘The co-location of all elements of our Foods R&D organization within the Foods Innovation ecosystem in Wageningen will enable Unilever to strengthen its ability to develop cutting edge Foods innovations in close collaboration with the Wageningen University & Research and a broad variety of other science institutes and startups.’
Unilever intends to settle R&D centre on campus
Unilever wants to build a Foods Innovation Centre on the Wageningen campus. The R&D departments of Unilever in Vlaardingen, Heilbronn (Germany) and Poznan (Poland) will be combined in this new centre. The consumer goods supplier announced this today.
