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...Recently published earnings reports showed profit margins expanded last quarter at companies including Kimberly-Clark, home to brands such as Kleenex and Huggies, cleaning product maker Clorox, and Procter...
...“The consumer remains resilient,” said Michael Hsu, chair and chief executive of Kimberly-Clark, maker of Andrex toilet roll and Kleenex tissue....
...Even so, the forecast ad expenditure at both Kimberly-Clark and Clorox is expected to remain above pre-pandemic levels....
...Concern about the spread of coronavirus has also made consumers more hygiene-conscious, suggesting lasting benefits for companies in the sector including Reckitt Benckiser of the UK and Kleenex maker Kimberly-Clark...
...Before that, the chemistry graduate worked for the consumer products group Kimberly-Clark for 22 years, starting as a scientist....
...It noted that Kimberly-Clark had committed to halve its sourcing from natural forests and that Unilever had committed to “zero-net deforestation” in its supply chains....
...Housebound consumers were also using more of Kimberly-Clark’s products....
...She also name-checks the Old Harkers Arms in Chester....
...Among the many companies ramping up ad spend are Kimberly-Clark, maker of Kleenex tissues and Huggies nappies, and Colgate-Palmolive, the toothpaste and soap group....
...Also on Thursday, the company’s smaller rival Kimberly-Clark, which makes Kleenex tissues and Huggies nappies, reported a 3 per cent rise in like-for-like sales in the quarter....
...The figures stood in contrast to disappointing results from P&G’s smaller rival Kimberly-Clark, whose net sales ticked up 1 per cent....
...Mr Chester said Lumi’s by Pampers “clearly is part of a well-thought out corporate strategy to effectively enmesh the company into our increasingly digital lives”....
...Kimberly-Clark, maker of Huggies nappies and Kleenex tissues, last week raised its full-year outlook for sales and profits....
...Kimberly-Clark’s new chief executive Mike Hsu said on Wednesday that the market remained “challenging”....
...Kimberly-Clark’s new chief executive has moved to assert his authority on the US company, laying down new financial targets and a “strategic plan” to help combat anaemic sales of its household staples....
...The trend helped P&G’s rival Kimberly-Clark post stronger than expected earnings this week....
...He added: “Mike is the right leader to build on Kimberly-Clark’s proud history.”...
...Mike Hsu, newly installed chief executive of Kimberly-Clark, told investors last week that the company was planning “more meaningful” innovation....
...Kimberly-Clark, the company behind Kleenex and Huggies, last week lowered its forecasts for annual profits....
...Additional reporting by Patti Waldmeir, Alistair Gray, Robin Wigglesworth and Nicole Bullock...
...Michael Gray, a criminal law solicitor who runs Chester-based law firm Gray & Co, agrees....
...“He was a brilliant big picture guy,” says Jonathan Gray, Blackstone’s head of real estate. “If you look at where growth is now in hotels, it’s two areas: select service and international expansion.”...
...Owens’s voice struck out deep and direct across the peppy beat of ambidextrous session drummer Gary Chester and brisk sha-la-las of her former classmates....
...Gone, too, is the resemblance between Chester’s wife (Kirsten Dunst) and Rydal’s cousin, a girl he was once accused of raping....
...“Italian men have more of an appetite for British tailoring now,” says Chris Scott-Gray, Chester Barrie’s head of marketing....
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