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The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is a brand behemoth. The world's #1 maker of household products courts market share and billion-dollar brands. P&G's business is divided into three global units: beauty, health and well being, and household care. It ... makes pet food and water filters and produces soap operas (As the World Turns). More than 20 of P&G's brands are billion-dollar sellers, including Actonel, Always/Whisper, Braun, Bounty, Charmin, Crest, Downy/Lenor, Folgers, Gillette, Iams, Olay, Pampers, Pantene, Pringles, Tide, and Wella, among others. Acquisitive P&G bought Clairol in 2001 and a majority of Wella in 2003.
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Current members of the board of directors of Procter & Gamble are: Norman Augustine, Bruce Byrnes, Scott D. Cook, Joseph Gorman, A.G. Lafley, Charles R. Lee, Lynn M. Martin, W. James McNerney, Jr., Johnathan Rodgers, John F. Smith, Jr., Ralph Snyderman, Margaret Whitman, and Ernesto Zedillo. Norman Augustine will be retiring from the Board following the Company's October 2007 meeting[11].
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Procter & Gamble (P&C) has one of the most well-known trademarks in the world—a man in the moon surrounded by stars. The trademark originated in the early 1850s as a symbol for P&G Star brand candles. This was during a time when most products did not carry a recognizable brand name. By the 1860s, the symbol was used for all P&G products. The moon and stars was a sign to everyone, even people who could not read, that they were purchasing a P&G product and that quality was guaranteed.
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Procter & Gamble, a long-time customer of Palisade, has begun corporate-wide training on PrecisionTree. It will be the second Palisade tool to gain widespread adoption at P&G. @RISK, the risk analysis and simulation add-in for Excel, was the first to be used throughout the company starting back in 1993. According to Bob Hunt, Associate Director for Investment Analysis, more than 1,000 P&G staff members have been trained to use @RISK. As a result, P&G decision makers click on @RISK to analyse any decision involving investment—geographical expansion, production siting, new products, and extensions of product lines, for example.
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In the early twentieth century, Procter & Gamble continued to grow. The company began to build factories in other locations in the United States, because the demand for products had outgrown the capacity of the Cincinnati facilities. The company's leaders began to diversify its products as well and, in 1911, began producing Crisco, a shortening made of vegetable oils rather than animal fats. In the early 1900s, Procter & Gamble ... became known for its research laboratories, where scientists worked to create new products. Company leadership also pioneered in the area of market research, investigating consumer needs and product appeal. As radio became more popular in the 1920s and 1930s, the company sponsored a number of radio programs.
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BOSTON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Gillette, part of The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG), is continuing to fight homelessness by renewing its commitment to the Gillette Homelessness Prevention Grants Program, a program that began in 2005. Today, Gillette awarded grants totaling $884,000 to 21 social service organizations working to build awareness of homelessness prevention as a solution to end homelessness in Boston.
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