Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast-moving consumer goods across foods, home and personal product categories. Unilever’s portfolio includes some of the world’s best known and most loved brands. Vitality is at the heart of Unilever, with its mission being to meet the everyday needs for nutrition, home hygiene and personal care with brands that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life. And every day, around the world, 150 million people in over 150 countries choose its products for the vitality benefits they bring.

Schering-Plough has a broad canine, feline and equine product portfolio. Particular strengths lie with biologicals (vaccines), anaesthetics, anti-bacterials, non-steroidals, diabetes and the eye and ear market. A rapidly expanding area of the veterinary business, Schering-Plough is making considerable investments in companion animal development in order to continue to deliver innovative products.

The CSIR is the largest community and industry-directed scientific and research, development and implementation organisation in South Africa, currently undertaking approximately 12% of all research and development work on the Continent. It has a turnover of US$150 million and a staff complement of approximately 3,300 specialist scientists, engineers, technologists and support staff who undertake broadly-based, market-driven research and development for the benefit of the commercial market place, as well as urban and rural communities in South Africa and the region.