Unilever, the world's second-largest consumer goods maker, Tuesday in Shanghai launched its sixth global research and development center.

About 450 research staff from 15 countries will work at the 50-million-euro R&D center that focuses on products development and basic research, said Paul Polman, Unilever's chief executive. He said Unilever had invested in China because it was a huge market.

(Xinhua News Agency September 8, 2009)