Household Product News

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Williams-Sonoma Inc. swung to a third-quarter profit and raised its fourth-quarter and full-year outlooks Thursday on cost control efforts and a pick-up in demand.

Procter & Gamble is interested in buying companies or products in three areas and is open to a major acquisition, its chief financial officer said today.

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday after discount retailer Target gave a cautious holiday season outlook, but positive brokerage comments on tech bellwether Microsoft helped limit losses.

JohnsonDiversey, Inc. today announced the pricing of its private placement of $400 million in aggregate principal amount of 8.25% senior notes due November 15, 2019.

OraSure Technologies Inc., which makes diagnostic kits to detect HIV and drug use, said Thursday it will pay Inverness Medical $3 million to settle a patent dispute over HIV tests.

The Home Depot has opened a 657,000-square-foot distribution center in south Jefferson County.

A federal jury on Thursday found the former head of the country's largest drug distributor guilty of fraud, nearly 10 years after he played a central role in one of the costliest corporate accounting scandals of the time.

Procter & Gamble Co. said Thursday it is voluntarily recalling three lots of Vicks Sinex nasal spray that were distributed in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.

When Elisabeth Robert, the former CEO of Vermont Teddy Bear Co., bought a Rochester company that specializes in women's bicycles and apparel this spring, the plan was to move Terry Precision Cycling to an undetermined Vermont location.

Stocks managed to finish with their third straight session of gains Tuesday, as the dollar returned near 15-month lows, helping fuel gains in commodities and offsetting a batch of weak economic reports and a glum outlook from Home Depot.

WEST NYACK - A new bus stop at the Palisades Center mall will open to the public on Saturday.

The Clorox Company today announced that its board of directors has declared a regular quarterly dividend of 50 cents per share on the company's common stock, payable Feb.

U.S. stocks rose to fresh 13-month highs on Tuesday as upbeat broker views on improving prospects for two Dow components offset disappointing holiday spending outlooks from Target and Home Depot.

The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange: NYSE: Assured Guaranty Ltd., up $4.32 at $25.53 Shares of the bond insurer hit a 12-month high after its quarterly loss narrowed despite big losses in credit derivative contracts.

S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. may be eyeing Sara Lee Corp.'s air-freshner business, according to a published report Tuesday.

World stocks fell modestly Tuesday after U.S. retailers Home Depot Inc. and Target Corp.

Nov 17 - Home Depot and Target announced better-than-expected quarterly profits, but offered no ringing endorsement of the consumer.

Federal health officials said Tuesday a popular variety of heartburn medications can interfere with the blood thinner Plavix, a drug taken by millions of Americans to reduce risks of heart attack and stroke.

Fourth quarter now projected to be better than expected. Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.