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...(Books, Life & Arts, February 4), Richard Lambert’s review of Adam Kuper’s book The Museum of Other People, Lambert reports that Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa “has been through a major refit...
...group on Facebook at FT Books Café Letter in response to this article: Why this museum’s story of Africa is incomplete / From Lee Gillette, Brussels, Belgium...
...Job moves Richard Liu has stepped down as chief executive of JD.com, the Chinese ecommerce group he founded more than two decades ago....
...Among the adherents of the theory are Richard Thaler, who wrote about this “equity premium puzzle” in 1995 and was recently awarded a Nobel Prize....
...“Large, fast-moving consumer goods companies are highly skilled at executing known business models,” says Richard Taylor, analyst at Morgan Stanley, “but their record on true radical innovation over the...
...Groups such as Unilever, which makes Dove soap, and P&G, which owns Gillette razors, have slashed advertising budgets, as ecommerce giants change the way goods are bought, sold and distributed....
...Letters in response to this article: Infringers handed new tools to attack patents / From Frederick S Burkhart, Grand Rapids, MI, US An innovative approach to intellectual property / From Dr Richard Rohwer...
...Yet as Richard Rumelt, a former Nasa engineer turned strategy professor, points out in his book Good Strategy Bad Strategy, while the moonshot seemed “audacious to the layman”, Kennedy was setting a “proximate...
...Gillette is sharpening its blades ahead of a legal wrangle over alleged patent infringements by US start-up Dollar Shave Club, an online shaving subscription service....
...Duracell had been part of Gillette. “I have always been impressed by Duracell, as a consumer and as a long-term investor in P&G and Gillette,” Mr Buffett said....
...Tapping demand from an emerging middle class in developing economies is key to Procter & Gamble, the company behind brands including Gillette and Pampers....
...First-quarter profits at the maker of everything from Head & Shoulders shampoo to Gillette Razors were little changed at $2.6bn, or 90 cents a share, from $2.56bn, or 88 cents a share, in the same period...
...“It’s aggressive but with some conservatism added in,” says Mr Gillette....
...Additional reporting by Richard Blackden...
...Additional reporting by David Gelles, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Emily Steel and Richard Blackden...
...Only a few targets, such as Gillette in the late 1980s, have evaded him. A generation ago, he explains, “what you had was a very lazy managerial elite”....
...This reduces waste throughout the supply chain by 50 per cent, says Richard Swannell, Wrap’s director of design and waste prevention....
...In doing so, it has copied one of the most famous strategies in business history: the idea, pioneered by safety razor inventor King Gillette more than a century ago, that a company can sell one product at...
...Additional reporting by Richard Waters in San Francisco...
...KKR, which will be the majority owner, is buying Del Monte with the buy-out fund of Centerview Partners, run by James Kilts, the former chief executive of Gillette, and Vestar Capital Partners, a rival fund...
...Tiger Woods famously lost a strong of lucrative endorsements in the wake of the news about his infidelities, including deals with Gillette, Accenture, Gatorade and Tag Heuer....
...Around 60 per cent of Azors and Gillette razors are now sold at discounts, according to P&G....
...Peter Richards, 46, a US-born renewable energy strategist and entrepreneur, has been on the road for 17 years....
...In 2004 Richard Hill, one of England’s World Cup-winning rugby heroes of the year before, faced a similar injury to Brady’s. He says now: “I just wasn’t ready to stop.”...
...Indeed, the lines of most modern executives are Gillette-smooth, sleek and untroubled by whiskers....
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