Unilever, a leading global provider of foods and home and personal care products, has signed an IT outsourcing contract with Unisys Corporation. Under the terms of the agreement, signed for an initial four years, Unisys will provide a range of IT management and support services for more than 60,000 Unilever employees across North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Russia and Central Eastern Europe.

A central part of the contract is to enable Unilever employees, who use mobile and consumer technologies for business, to have quick access to productivity tools wherever they work or travel. Support will be delivered from service centres across the world, including Budapest and Bangalore among others.

Peter Opalka, vice president of Global Client Services at Unilever commented: “We selected Unisys as our key partner for end-user support services because of the company’s proven service delivery capabilities and innovative roadmap for evolving desktop services to provide our workforce with anywhere, anytime access to tools critical to their business productivity."