{"id":51571,"date":"2026-05-29T09:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/51571\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:53:10","slug":"unilever-plans-270m-new-haven-innovation-center-for-2029-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/51571\/","title":{"rendered":"Unilever Plans $270M New Haven Innovation Center For 2029 Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Unilever USA President Herrish Patel speaks about the company\u2019s planned innovation center in New Haven on May 28, 2026. Credit: Donald Eng \/ CTNewsJunkie<\/p>\n

NEW HAVEN, CT \u2014 Multinational giant Unilever announced a $270 million global innovation center to house the company\u2019s research and development for its personal care, beauty and wellbeing businesses in the U.S. and globally Thursday. The new center is expected to open at 2 College Street in New Haven in 2029.<\/p>\n

The new facility will succeed the company\u2019s existing R&D facility, which has operated in Trumbull since 1972, company officials said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Haven gets us to the future faster,\u201d said Unilever USA President Herrish Patel. Our Global Innovation Centre is where we\u2019ll innovate at the intersection of science, technology and culture \u2013 for the U.S. and for the world. We will build on our deep heritage of innovation to develop the next generation of brands and products that people love.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Unilever, 3.7 billion people worldwide, and 95% of U.S. households use Unilever products daily. The company\u2019s product portfolio includes brands such as Dove, Pond\u2019s, Vaseline, Hellman\u2019s, Olly and dozens of others.<\/p>\n

The center is expected to employ about 300 people.<\/p>\n

\"\"Richard Slater, chief research and development officer, speaks about Unilever\u2019s plans for an innovation center in New Haven on Credit: Donald Eng \/ CTNewsJunkie<\/p>\n

\u201cBehind every Unilever product is a world-leading science that delivers superior performance, combined with design, fragrance and sensory experiences that make our brands distinctive,\u201d said Richard Slater, chief research and development officer. \u201cThe real shift here is integration and speed: science, design and sensorials working as one, with AI and partnerships accelerating every stage of innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Specific capabilities to be housed at the center include:<\/p>\n

Global centre for skin care and cleansing, anchoring the site and powering the future of Unilever\u2019s skin care and cleansing business;<\/p>\n

Polycultural skin and hair centre of excellence, specialising in creating ingredients and products that address the unmet needs of millions of consumers;<\/p>\n

Human performance lab, generating unprecedented new data and insights into human physiology, enabling on-site testing of ingestibles;<\/p>\n

Unilever Fragrance House, with perfumists, chemists and packaging designers working together from the earliest stages of development;<\/p>\n

Packaging innovation studio, incorporating real-time consumer feedback to accelerate the development of prototypes that perform across physical and digital shelves.<\/p>\n

Gov. Ned Lamont said the company\u2019s decision to invest in New Haven reaffirmed Connecticut\u2019s reputation as a leader in innovation, research and development.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am glad we have Unilever as a valued member of Connecticut\u2019s growing business community, and I look forward to this company continuing to succeed here for many years to come,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unilever USA President Herrish Patel speaks about the company\u2019s planned innovation center in New Haven on May 28,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[20694],"tags":[25661,633,25662,226,25663,21961,12213],"class_list":["post-51571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-unilever","tag-400pfriday","tag-business","tag-eng","tag-jobs","tag-ned-lamont","tag-push","tag-unilever"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116657258935356075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}