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...platform’s reputation as a value retailer: We believe Whole Foods’ strong store brand, relatively well-established private label line (365 Everyday Value) and smaller store format than other grocers (e.g....
...Retailers Tesco and Wal-Mart are reportedly among the companies to have expressed an early interest in the facility created by the Carbon War Room, the business-led green campaigning group....
...Barbara Broccoli and her half-brother Michael G....
...But the company that owns the Uniqlo and g.u. casual clothing chains was quickly outdone on price by Aeon, one of Japan’s largest supermarket operators, which came out with a line of Y880 jeans last month...
...P&G has been offering a booklet of coupons worth $120, or a $10 voucher valid at Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club stores to customers who mail in receipts for more than $50 of P&G’s brands....
...M&G’s Strategic Corporate bond fund, which invests mostly in higher-quality investment-grade bonds from blue-chips such as Roche, Anheuser Busch and Wal-Mart, and offers a variable yield of 4.77 per cent...
...The highest-priced stocks: IBM (IBM) = $81.98 Exxon (XOM) = $76.29 Chevron (CHV) = $68.31 P&G (PG) = $57.34 McDonalds (MCD) = $57.07 J&J (JNJ) = $56.75 3M (MMM) = $53.92 Wal-Mart (WMT) = $50.56 Related...
...Marnik G. Dekimpe (m.g.dekimpe@uvt.nl) is Research Professor of Marketing, Tilburg University, the Netherlands and Professor of Marketing, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium...
...In another indication of the flux, Wal-Mart, P&G’s largest customer, is hiring a strategy executive whose tasks include assessing the potential effect of direct-to-consumer sales by its own suppliers....
...When the goods arrive at the Wal-Mart distribution centre, they are moved directly from P&G’s truck to the appropriate Wal-Mart truck, with no time in storage....
...What is P&G thinking?” asked one typically impassioned respondent....
...Bob McDonald, P&G’s chief operating officer....
...FedEx added 6.8 per cent to $83.99 and General Electric rose 3.8 per cent to $29.25 while Wal-Mart Stores rose 3.3 per cent to $60.34 and Tyson Foods gained 7.8 per cent to $16.16....
...Perhaps someone at P&G’s HQ is listening....
...To this end, P&G and a dozen other consumer goods companies – including Coca-Cola and Kellogg – and 18 US retailers such as Wal-Mart, Walgreens and Target have each spent $250,000 on “project Prism”, an...
...But companies such as Wal-Mart are partnering with Indian players to form wholesale cash-and-carry stores, which are permitted in India....
...Consumer giants Nestlé and Danone, on the other hand, already buy and ship goods in massive quantities and have the product assortment and bargaining power needed to negotiate deals with Wal-Mart and other...
...Everything in P&G’s global value network is based on winning at this moment of truth....
...Liquid detergent concentration has been broadly supported by P&G and Unilever, which see long-term savings and other benefits for themselves despite the short-term costs of retooling their factories....
...The decision comes after major retailers – including P&G’s leading customer, Wal-Mart – are pushing to cut down on excess packaging for environmental reasons....
...Since the Dow’s previous record – on July 19 – eight of the top ten performers have been multinational companies, led by P&G but also including Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson and McDonald’s....
...The move comes as Wal-Mart, P&G’s largest customer, is pushing its suppliers to cut packaging by at least 5 per cent....
...These are the MNCs that own the brands and distributor relationships, and the distributors themselves, such as Wal-Mart and Toys R Us....
...“This is huge for our industry,” added Jim Stengel, global marketing officer at P&G, which is viewed as both the largest and most influential advertiser in the world....
...In spite of this, shares in P&G were down 0.7 per cent at $63.39 as investors fretted about the company’s profit forecast for the current quarter....
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