A court sentenced the former head of Oxy Reckitt Benckiser to seven years in prison after the company’s disinfectant for humidifiers killed scores of people and left hundreds with lung damage.
Investors who piled into popular pre-election strategies were poorly positioned when circumstances changed.
Sales of fabric softeners have been declining for more than a decade—many millennials don’t even know what the product is used for. But Procter & Gamble is working to boost its bottom line with a youth-focused marketing push that includes fresh packaging and ad campaigns.
Maryland has agreed to give neighboring West Virginia unchecked access to water from the Potomac River, ending a flare up that briefly entangled consumer products giant Procter & Gamble Co.
Symantec Corp. is looking to breathe new life into its consumer-product line with its $2.3 billion acquisition of identity-protection-services seller LifeLock Inc.
Entrepreneurs transformed an idea to help with passwords into a consumer product
Spectrum Brands posted an unexpected drop in revenue in its most recent quarter as growth in its auto care unit was offset by declines across its other divisions.
Kimberly-Clark named Michael D. Hsu as president and chief operating officer as part of the consumer-product company’s long-term succession planning.
Evercore is helping the consumer products-focused firm sell a roughly 20% stake in itself in a sale process that has attracted interest from several investors.
For the past couple of years, the problem for consumer-goods groups has been slowing sales growth in a deflationary retail environment. But attention could now turn to profit margins.
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It isn’t as easy as it used to be to deliver the steady sales growth investors have come to expect from the world’s biggest consumer-product makers.
A handful of Britain’s foreign territories and dependencies still use the pound, or are pegged to it, and their inhabitants expect to feel the effects of sterling’s near 19% fall against the dollar in the wake of Brexit.
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