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UBL Home Care Marketing Director Nurul Monowar with Jamal Bhuiyan at Surf Excel Expert White launch activation

Surf Excel Expert White: Experiencing Real White Clothes

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The colour white holds a special place in the hearts of Bangladeshis. From school uniforms and everyday essentials to office wear, festive outfits, and cultural celebrations, white is a colour people love to wear. It feels fresh, elegant, and confident. But it also comes with a familiar worry, which is keeping white clothes truly white.

Understanding this everyday consumer need, Surf Excel introduced Surf Excel Expert White, a dedicated fabric solution created to help people embrace white with greater confidence. Launched in April 2026, it marks one of the biggest innovations from Unilever Bangladesh’s Home Care portfolio this year, bringing together strong product thinking, consumer understanding, and culturally relevant storytelling.

An Innovation Built on a Real Need

The thought behind Surf Excel Expert White began with a simple truth: people want to wear white without hesitation. Whether it is a crisp white shirt for school, a fresh outfit for work, or a white panjabi or saree for a special occasion, white carries meaning. It reflects care, neatness, celebration, and confidence. At the same time, white clothes are often the ones people worry about most, because stains, dullness, and loss of brightness feel more visible.

Surf Excel Expert White was created to respond to this very tension. It brings a focused solution for white clothes, helping consumers enjoy the beauty of white while feeling more assured about keeping it looking truly white.

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The White Wave Has Landed

To introduce Surf Excel Expert White, the brand created a launch that matched the ambition of the innovation. The campaign brought the product to life across markets through bold visibility, strong retail presence, and high consumer engagement.

Across General Trade and Modern Trade, Surf Excel Expert White arrived with disruptive and unmissable branding. From outlet visibility to in-store communication, the launch was designed to make the new product stand out clearly and confidently. The nationwide presence of 16,500 Surf Excel Expert White ambassadors helped carry the “White Wave” across markets, creating excitement among shoppers, retailers, and frontline teams.

The launch was further amplified through standout visibility in leading Modern Trade locations, including Unimart and Shwapno. With innovative branding formats, white-themed engagement, and the presence of Bangladesh National Football Team Captain Jamal Bhuyan, Surf Excel Expert White built strong momentum from the very beginning.

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আসল সাদায় বৈশাখ (Boishakh in real white)

Unilever believes in connecting the beloved brands to major cultural moments in a way that not only increases visibility but also increases relevance. Surf Excel Expert White also found a powerful cultural connection in Pohela Boishakh, a time when white becomes one of the season’s most loved colours.

Through the campaign “আসল সাদায় বৈশাখ,” Surf Excel invited people to celebrate Boishakh in real white, without the usual hesitation. The idea was simple, timely, and rooted in culture: white is deeply connected to the spirit of the season, and with Surf Excel Expert White, people can enjoy wearing it with greater confidence. The celebration translated into strong campaign performance as well, generating an impressive 167 million reach with 1.5X engagement.

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Bringing ‘আসল সাদায় ঈদ’ (Eid in Real White) to Life

Ahead of Eid, Surf Excel Expert White took its promise of brighter whites beyond laundry and into fashion through ‘Ashol Shaday Eid’. In a first-of-its-kind collaboration with Fabrilife, the brand helped create an exclusive white Eid collection, connecting the confidence of wearing white with one of the country’s most important festive moments. The partnership gave consumers a fresh way to experience Expert White, turning its product proposition into a culturally relevant expression of Eid style.

The campaign extended strongly into digital as well, generating 40 million reach with 2.5X engagement. By placing Expert White at the intersection of fashion, festivity and everyday fabric care, ‘Ashol Shaday Eid’ helped make white not simply a colour to wear, but a confident choice to celebrate in.

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Innovation with Purpose

For Unilever Bangladesh, Surf Excel Expert White reflects the kind of innovation that is built around people, their routines, aspirations, and everyday challenges.

With innovation at its core and culture at its heart, Surf Excel Expert White marks a new chapter in Surf Excel’s journey, helping Bangladesh embrace the confidence of real white in moments big and small.

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