Word: procter
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...celebrates them and calls its new line Pro Age. For the Anglo-Dutch consumer giant Unilever, Dove's $52 billion parent company, the stakes are high: total sales in 2006 grew just 4%. Indeed, since 2004, Unilever's sales growth has been in the single digits, while key competitor Procter & Gamble, which owns rival beauty powerhouse Olay, is growing twice as fast and enjoying healthier profit margins (22% in 2006). Dove needs a hit, but in a global culture obsessed with looking younger, will the older-is-O.K. approach catch...
...game's global turnover. But with India and Pakistan out of the Cup, audience size is expected to plummet. Advertisers are already demanding rebates on air time purchased on the assumption India would make it to the next round. "It is a crisis," Bharat Patel, chairman of multinational Procter and Gamble told the Times of India. "It's a house on fire situation. If the channel wants to consider a long-term customer relationship they have to concede. They have to give their customers better value...
...Overcoming training and experience to try something new takes courage. "I don't know if it's courage or stupidity or what," says Janet Reid, 52. The daughter of educators, Reid expected to be one, too, and followed her love of chemistry to a Ph.D. from Howard University. But Procter & Gamble began to pursue her, and after 18 months, she gave in. Under then ceo John Pepper's mentorship, Reid hopped within the consumer-products giant, rising ever higher in title. But after 10 years, she broke off and started Global Lead Management Consulting. She likens her decision to leave...
...last seminar is in midtown at Ketchum, a global public relations agency. Ann Marie Sabath, the founder of At Ease Inc., a business-etiquette firm in New York City and Cincinnati, Ohio, that advises such corporations as Procter & Gamble and American Express, is the lunchtime speaker...
...these nice ladies? They're the powers behind the Kaplan Thaler Group, a hot New York City ad agency that had $900 million in billings last year. The duo created the iconic AFLAC duck, and clients include Procter & Gamble, Continental Airlines, Pfizer, Revlon and Office Depot. Thaler and Koval attribute their success in part to practicing what they preach in their 195-employee office. (Of course, having terrific creative work helps too.) At Kaplan Thaler, everyone gets a callback, and every résumé gets answered. "We may not have a job for somebody," says Thaler, "but everybody deserves the respect...