Hints and tips:
...Owners of recognisable products such as Dove shampoo (Unilever) and Gillette razors (Procter & Gamble) can charge premium prices....
...Does it carry on cutting regional brands – it has just 400 today compared with 1,300 at the turn of the millennium – to develop global brands, as P&G has done with Pampers, Gillette, Tampax and Tide?...
...Other savings have come from an ongoing programme to halve the number of P&G’s global distribution centres, which swelled to 500 after its acquisition in 2005 of Gillette....
...There have been deals – the $57bn Gillette acquisition, the purchase of Wella and Clairol – and cultural changes, such as replacing the oak-panelled executive offices on the 11th floor in Cincinnati with...
...Back in the US, Mr McDonald declined to comment on perennial rumours that P&G is going to sell Duracell batteries, which it acquired as part of the Gillette deal in 2005, or its Pringles snacks business,...
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