You work exhausting hours trying to hold onto your job and provide for your family in a scary economy. When you get home, you help prepare dinner, play with the kids, help with homework, read goodnight books. Then there are chores around the house and, finally, a chance to crash and have a little time with your wife -- unless you had to bring work home. You squeeze in however many hours of sleep you can.
The actress lends her name to a UNICEF health campaign for mothers and babies
Hollywood mom Salma Hayek is lending her star power to a UNICEF campaign to eradicate tetanus
Buy a MegaRoll of Charmin bathroom tissue ("It's 4 Single Rolls in 1!"), and you will help save the planet. You can also score points for environmental responsibility by cleaning clothes with Tide Coldwater, or wrapping your baby's behind in Pampers.
Procter & Gamble Co. posted a better-than-expected 19 percent rise in quarterly profit Friday, helped by cost controls, and announced an acceleration of its share repurchase plans.
When Mark Ketchum joined the board of struggling consumer products maker Newell Rubbermaid at the end of 2004, he had no idea what he was in for. A 33-year veteran of Procter & Gamble, where he headed mega-brands like Pampers, Ketchum, 57, was asked to serve as interim CEO after the board finally lost its patience with underperforming former chief Joe Galli in October 2005.
Investors will be eyeing the U.S. consumer Tuesday as they weigh the latest confidence survey and results from the No. 1 consumer products maker.
Fortune: Women to watchupdated: Thu Oct 19 2006 15:26:00
Kim Winser hadn't stepped inside an Aquascutum store for more than a decade when she was recruited earlier this year to transform the venerable British fashion label. Today, as Aquascutum's CEO, sh...
Costco Wholesale warehouses may appear haphazard: The bare concrete floors, the merchandise piled up to the rafters, the conspicuous absence of signs or displays. In fact, the stores are carefully ...
The stock market continues to be choppy, as investors worry about inflation and the likelihood of future interest-rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.
The stock market continues to be choppy, as investors worry about inflation and the likelihood of future interest-rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.
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Growth stocks haven't been this cheap in years. Risk: A weak economy might keep them cheap.
What killed the cat makes us rich. To be more specific: If it weren't for the intellectual curiosity of engineers and scientists thinking things through, trying out ideas, and taking wild guesses i...
Procter & Gamble Co. reported Monday that its earnings soared 44 percent in its fourth fiscal quarter with growth in its beauty and health care businesses pushing its full-year sales past $50 billion for the first time.
When Procter & Gamble purchased Iams five years ago, many people worried that the rule-bound behemoth would muck up the growth of the savvy pet-food marketer. Iams was one of those companies (think...
Everyone pays lip service to the importance of diversification, but few investors really understand how to get the full benefit of mixing different types of assets. In fact, it's well worth reviewing the theory behind diversification because it's the one free lunch in investing.
Since taking over P&G in 2000, this 56-year-old former Navy man and company lifer has quietly skippered the $43 billion colossus back to profitability. But you won't hear him constantly bragging ab...
Money Magazine: Midyear guide: 6 stocksupdated: Tue Jul 15 2003 11:26:00
Don't be afraid of dipping your toe back into the investing waters.
The battle for your baby's bottom--a brutal slugfest that makes the Coke-Pepsi showdown look like a playground tussle--took an even nastier turn last year. Procter & Gamble's overhaul of its $4-bil...
"We've got to keep our eyes on France and Spain," cautions a senior executive at Procter & Gamble. "They could be the next Germany!"
Fortune: Gearing Up For Babyupdated: Mon May 13 2002 00:01:00
Popular wisdom has it that baby boomlets spring from tragedy--earthquakes, hurricanes, and the like. It would follow, then, that the national disaster of Sept. 11 would have led couples everywhere ...
You'd think the people who design and make nuclear weapons would have absolutely nothing to say to those who design and make consumer products like fruit drinks and diapers. But in the world of rel...
No sooner had the economy started to slow than investors began to worry that it would slow too much, causing more and more companies to miss their earnings targets. Already a number of well-known c...
Procter & Gamble Co. is the definition of a global corporation. Operating in 140 countries and reaching 5 billion people, the company's 300-brand portfolio, which includes Tide, Crest, Crisco and C...
Procter & Gamble is desperate--desperate, that is, for a hot new product, a product you haven't even heard of yet, but that ten years from now will be tucked into every kitchen cabinet from Cincinn...
The Madison Square shopping center on the outskirts of Nashville has clearly seen better days. A couple of stores sit vacant; the parking lot is far from full. Yet one small, unpretentious storefro...
In the tiny republic of Slovenija, a single Microsoft employee keeps his country's Internet surfers abreast of developments at the giant software company. He is just one of 400 editors, speaking 24...
CALL IT the $725 restructuring. Not particularly pricey for a $30-billion-a- year packaged-goods gargantua like Procter & Gamble. Why $725? That's the premium a brand-loyal family had to pay in 199...
When IBM marketed its first personal computer in 1981, the company thought it was aiming at the home market. Big Blue missed by a mile, and the PC wound up in the office instead, where, of course, ...
ISN'T IT WEIRD that an event connected with a brand name, Marlboro Friday, would cause such generic panic down on Wall Street and up on Madison Avenue? Since that April day when Philip Morris drew ...
Procter & Gamble has long been the Barry Manilow of the stock market. Appealing to a conservative audience of investors, the $29 billion company has kept profits humming at a soothing 8% annual rat...
Feel guilty when you toss out your kids' disposable diapers? Then compost them into the rich mulch shown in the magazine. That was the message behind an ad campaign that Procter & Gamble, maker of ...
Fortune: PRODUCTS TO WATCHupdated: Mon Apr 23 1990 00:01:00
CHESSTER CHALLENGER You exchanged a queen for a pawn and your opponent isn't going to let you forget it: ''Are you a salesman? Only a salesman would make a dumb move like that.'' Worse, you can't t...
AS ANNUAL MEETINGS go, Procter & Gamble's promised to be pleasantly uneventful. Sales and profits were up; ditto the stock price and the outlook for the future. Even the animal-rights activists wav...
MANAGING/Cover Story 34 P&G REWRITES THE MARKETING RULES Peerless promoter Procter & Gamble is making ''watershed changes,'' says CEO John Smale. It is speeding decisions and getting closer to the ...
$ We're talking disposable diapers here -- a down and dirty business where two big kids have been clobbering each other for a decade. In the latest round of rabbit punching, Procter & Gamble has di...
Three years ago Tim George, now 33, was making $17,000 a year teaching world history to 10th-graders at a private high school in Honolulu. ''Besides the terrible pay, I was putting in 60-hour weeks...
SPECIAL REPORT/ Cover Stories 32 THE 25 MOST FASCINATING BUSINESS PEOPLE OF 1988 Remarkable in all sorts of ways, the men -- and one woman -- on this list are above all bold, willing to take risks ...
MY OLDER SON, now almost 7, was an exceedingly good-natured baby except at bedtime. He required two bulky diapers plus rubber pants to get through the night. He looked and, I suspect, felt quite si...
Fortune: PRODUCTS OF THE YEARupdated: Mon Dec 08 1986 00:01:00
Americans went on a buying spree in 1986. Marketers that were smart enough -- and lucky enough -- to deliver what consumers wanted had an exhilarating ride. Gadgets? Yamaha has a year-long waiting ...
PROCTER & GAMBLE is likely to report its first annual earnings decline in 33 years in the fiscal year ending in June. Profits fell 18% in the first fiscal quarter, and security analysts expect P&G ...
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