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...Kauffman founded Bios Group, a partnership with Ernst & Young designed to apply complexity science to Big Business. In five years, it has completed more than 50 projects for FORTUNE 500 companies, solving thorny problems of supply-chain management for Procter & Gamble (How do you get the soap from factory to home with optimum results for P&G, its retailers, and consumers?), decimalization for NASDAQ and crowd control for Disneyland (How do you avoid long lines at rides...
...company's tagline mission is to "use the power of customer demand to change the way power is made." Which brings us to why a long-time marketing executive at Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola is running an energy company. He's there to be a salesman...
...Thursday they got neither. UPS warned about its first-quarter profit estimates. Procter & Gamble announced 9,600 layoffs as part of further cost-cutting. And two economic reports - the index of leading economic indicators and the weekly state unemployment claims - told Greenspan exactly what he's been telling the markets: The economy, though weak, does not appear to be heading into a recession...
...Gillette shares plunged 11% in the past 12 months and 36% in the past three years. The story is similar at Campbell Soup, where the stock, though up in the past year, has fallen 43% over three years. Other plans that have taken it in the chops include Procter & Gamble's, Norfolk Southern's and Cooper Tire's. In each of these cases, employer stock accounts for more than half of the plan's assets...
...these robots perform any useful work? Yes, but for a price. You can buy robotic vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers for $700 to $2,000, and by December, Procter & Gamble expects to be marketing automated floor cleaners to consumers under the Convenience Companions label...