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Industry in Cambridgeport began when the Grand Junction Railroad was built in 1853. Factories produced soap, railroad cars and candy, among other products...
...been a crossing guard for 11 years and has lived in Cambridgeport all her life. Part of her time in the neighborhood she spent in an area that used to be called "greasy village" after the soap factories that operated there...
...consumer giants such as Heinz, Kellogg, McDonald's, Coca-Cola and Gillette have also taken a beating, falling more than 30%. The culprits: slowing sales and falling profits. Last Friday soap seller Dial saw its stock slip 22% after the company issued its own earnings warning. Dial is down 70% over the past year...
...pretty soggy. Coke, which created more shareholder value in the past decade than most other companies, has so far spent this year giving it back, one reason CEO Douglas Ivester was booted recently. Last fall P&G's archrival Unilever, whose massive arsenal includes Lipton iced tea, Dove soap and Wisk detergent, decided to jettison 1,000 subpar brands...
...that's how SoapWorks, a $2 million company that produces nontoxic, soap-based cleaning products, was born. Today, four years after starting the company in her garage, Antonetti employs 52 people, most of whom are themselves moms of children with severe allergies or other ailments...