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...He has been at loggerheads with Unilever’s ice-cream brand Ben & Jerry’s over its stance on Israeli politics....
...But taking a step back, beyond jerry-rigged fixes for Zambia, the time is ripe for a rethink of how best to define comparability....
...Most large consumer packaged goods groups, including P&G, are still operating on tighter margins than they were before the pandemic....
...And the Mumbai-based novelist and poet Jerry Pinto pulls off a funny and wry coming-of-age novel, The Education of Yuri, about a boy yearning to be a writer in 1980s Bombay....
...An internal fight with Ben & Jerry’s over the sale of products in the occupied Palestinian territories rumbles on....
...In 2020, two-thirds of P&G shareholders supported a petition demanding more disclosure for pulp and palm oil use....
...“Nelson is actually helpful,” says a person close to P&G’s board....
...The clothes of G Label, her second‑fastest growth vertical, are based on all the things Paltrow “wants to wear now”....
...Peltz’s stint at Unilever will probably be a smoother one than at P&G, where he waged a bitter proxy battle, Lex notes....
...The most recognisable names — Sarah Jessica Parker, Floyd Mayweather, Jerry Springer, Dick Van Dyke, Snoop Dogg, John Cleese, Lindsay Lohan, David Hasselhoff — are no longer at the height of their careers...
...Blaming weak sales in the US and India, two of its biggest markets, the maker of Dove soap and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream said it expected underlying sales growth for 2019 and the first half of 2020 to be “...
...Expect as much focus on “S” and “G” as on “E”....
...In addition to mixing drinks, Jerry also manned the telephone in that pre-mobile era....
...“This means mobile operators will not be able to rely so much on the ‘rising tide’ effect of smartphone sales to drive the uptake of the new G,” he said....
...The plea came as part of a concerted push by the maker of Dove soap and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to win over shareholders now that voting has begun ahead of key meetings on October 25 and 26....
...The company has also forged a joint venture with Infracapital, an arm of M&G Prudential, to build full-fibre networks to 3m premises....
...(FT) Biblical billionaire How Jerry Falwell Jr turned a Christian university into a billion-dollar online empire, with a little help from the Department of Education and American taxpayers....
...Jon Moeller, P&G’s finance director, told an industry conference last week that “P&G is a profoundly different company than just a few years ago”....
...The UK businesses will be in one company, called M&G Prudential; the international businesses will be in the other, called Prudential plc....
...Both Unilever, which makes brands such as Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and Dove soap, and P&G, which owns Gillette razors, have said they will cut marketing budgets....
...The company behind Dove soap and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream has sharpened its focus on profitability, setting a target of 20 per cent operating margin by 2020, from 16 per cent last year....
...Unilever, which owns brands such as Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and Dove soap, recently announced it is cutting half of the 3,000 ad agencies it uses around the world and will make a third fewer ads....
...He enjoyed his time at P&G but discovered it was not a great fit....
...Meanwhile, Chinese rival Didi Kuaidi has named Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang as a senior adviser and board observer....
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