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...Mr Francis said: “The Harry’s and Flamingo brands represent a significant and growing competitive threat to the two firms [Edgewell and P&G] that have dominated the wet shaving market for decades.”...
...Men are shaving less and Gillette has lost ground to the likes of Dollar Shave Club and Harry’s....
...year-end stock market rally and strong wage growth for low-income Americans have boosted public attitudes towards Donald Trump’s economic stewardship, the latest poll by the Financial Times and the Peter G...
...Harry G Broadman is managing director and chair of the emerging markets practice at the Berkeley Research Group, a global transactions dispute and business strategy consultancy, a member of the Johns Hopkins...
...Whatever spell was cast by the first two letters of ESG, the last — G for governance — got no comment....
...In the three months since P&G last reported results, the company has succumbed to Mr Peltz’s pressure for a seat on the board....
...P&G, the biggest consumer goods group in the US, has been shrinking its business by reducing its brands from 170 to 65 since 2015....
...The growth of these piranha brands has led to the fragmentation of the home and personal care market, with P&G and Unilever under pressure from upstarts such as Dollar Shave Club and Harry’s in men’s grooming...
...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”....
...While Mr Peltz has yet to make any public demands, the investment adds to pressure on P&G to take cost-cutting to its limits and could reignite the debate over whether the company would be better split....
...Gillette launched a controversial ad campaign “welcoming back” former customers who it says returned after trying Harry’s. P&G says it has won back more than 150,000 customers....
...And M&G, holding a fifth of the shares, told TVH so. The investor will push Loxam to offer more than extra tinsel....
...He enjoyed his time at P&G but discovered it was not a great fit....
...“Right now’s a dangerous time for private equity investors,” says Paul Canning, managing director at H.I.G. Capital. “This is all because of the demand-supply of money equation....
...M&G still dominated the list of underperformers, largely because of its £6.7bn Recovery fund, which has suffered as a result of its exposure to resources shares....
...This happened recently on the Tube as I was reading the description of his sister Margo’s entanglement with a phoney spiritualist called Mrs Haddock. At his best Durrell is as funny as P.G....
...G V Coutinho Battling for an armrest to the music of Brahms / From Mr Ludovico Ciferri...
...The M&G Recovery fund, which has an unusually long performance history, has disappointed in recent years....
...From Dr Charles G V Coutinho....
...“There is a significant mark up on razors,” says Jeff Raider, co-founder of Harry’s. “Lots of guys are upset that they have to pay so much.” Harry’s offers “high quality at a fair price”, he says....
...ever to keep eyes on TTIP prize / From Ms Ewa Björling, Mr Richard Bruton and others Trade pacts should not expand private power / From Emeritus Prof Philip G Cerny The ‘I’ in the TTIP will create a global...
...William McChesney Martin, the author of the accord, certainly was when he was appointed by Harry Truman in 1951....
...Ten years ago Benn appeared on the Ali G show, a spoof youth programme where satirist Sacha Baron Cohen talked to celebrities....
...Through the 20th century, the word was employed as derogatory slang – James Joyce and H.G. Wells used it that way in their books....
...Meanwhile, Harry Winston actually has a number of stores – around 50 – that they say they do not want to grow beyond....
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