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...your eyes aren't failing you - there's bad news on Wall Street, and plenty of it. The Dow Jones industrial average took its fourth worst points plunge on Tuesday and dragged the heretofore unflappable NASDAQ index with it. The bad news began in the morning when Dow stalwart Procter and Gamble announced third-quarter earnings that will be 10 to 11 percent below last year's figures. The conglomerate's stock plummeted by nearly a third on the news, and the rest of the Dow quickly followed. "Psychologically, it's bad for the industrial stocks when...
Consider consumer-products kingpin Procter & Gamble, which a couple of weeks ago stuck its nose into a three-way pharmaceutical fray involving Pfizer, Warner Lambert and American Home Products--hoping to come away with Warner Lambert and its cholesterol-reducing wonder drug Lipitor. P&G, maker of Cascade and Crest, knows about cleaning. But getting rid of plaque on your teeth and doing the same for your arteries are two very different businesses. Maybe that's why the P&G gambit fell apart last week. Still, this isn't the first time P&G has tried to branch...
Case began his professional life as cannon fodder at Procter & Gamble, an assistant brand manager working on products such as Abound!, a failed, wipe-on hair cleanser. Case couldn't hack the glacial pace at P&G. So in 1983, after an introduction from brother Dan, he jumped to a start-up called Control Video Corp., which was perfecting the "can't lose" idea of shilling TV-top boxes that would download and play video games over telephone lines. The idea bombed. But a bit of financial legerdemain turned the firm into Quantum Computer Services, which ran an online network...
Before InsightExpress launched this fall, most of the $5 billion spent annually on market research in the U.S. came from the coffers of huge multinationals like General Motors and Procter & Gamble. A project might cost at least $25,000 and take months to complete. Conventional research firms like Market Facts go through a process that typically involves research design, approval from layers of management, the creation of a survey, selection of a sample population and analysis. By contrast, an InsightExpress survey costs only about $1,000 and takes just a few days. The service provides its clients with survey templates...