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...PROCTER & GAMBLE Most urban Chinese homes stock affordable P&G products. Its Olay and Rejoice are the best-selling facial cream and shampoo. The company, which made an estimated $1.8 billion in revenue last year in China, was hurt by fake P&G products in the 1990s. But it has since worked with the government to crack down on knock-offs...
Colgate is getting squeezed. Procter & Gamble, maker of archrival Crest toothpaste, is starting to see the results of an aggressive marketing campaign, including a massive jump in ad spends and primo placement on nbc's reality-TV show The Apprentice. One result: Colgate-Palmolive's toothpaste business, anchored in the eponymous brand, is losing market share. Though still the category leader in the U.S. and globally, Colgate has seen U.S. share slip, from 35.3% at the beginning of 2003 to 33.3% during the second quarter of this year, according to Smith Barney stock research. In September, Colgate said its second...
SUSAN ARNOLD Beauty Queen As head of Procter & Gamble's beauty-products division since 1999, with brands like Olay and CoverGirl, Susan Arnold, 50, trusts her intuition. "You get just enough data, but then you have to have a sense of what works," says the 24-year P&G veteran, who became vice chairwoman last month. "And you have to have the guts to act on it." Under Arnold, the division's sales have grown about 14% annually. The mother of two, who recently competed in a triathlon and learned to surf, will add hair care to her portfolio. With...
...small percentage of each sale. She's also the quiet giant of the Internet world, one of a mere handful of Silicon Valley CEOs who survived the dotcom bubble with her reputation unscathed. A business veteran, she cut her teeth in the top echelons of Disney, Hasbro and Procter & Gamble, resurrecting failing brands like Keds shoes and FTD florists. When she was offered her current job in 1998, Whitman was highly skeptical. Why leave everything she had built for her family in Boston and move 3,000 miles away to become CEO of, as she called it, a "no-name...
...Montclair, N.J., that provides consultations to the fragrance industry. "The soap base has chemical properties that tend to kind of tear apart the fragrance oils and make them go flat or not smell so good after a while," he says. This may explain why mass-market products such as Procter & Gamble's Joy, even in its new Green Tea essence variety, lack the olfactory punch of the pricier items...