Household Product News

The Estee Lauder Companies and Mapochette.com, the sassy designer handbag rental company, have teamed up, to raise awareness and funds for the 16th year of The Estee Lauder Global Breast Cancer Awareness ...

More than a century ago, a plant breeder and seed merchant named W. Atlee Burpee bought Fordhook Farm in Doylestown, Pa., and developed varieties of vegetables for the home gardener.

The Home Depot Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, operates The Home Depot stores - full-service, warehouse-style facilities that sell building materials, and home improvement, lawn and garden products.

Blyth, Inc. , a leading designer and marketer of home fragrance and home decor products, today commented on its updated outlook for fiscal year 2009.

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Oil's climb forced companies to become leaner 1/5 Sharpie Retractable fine tip markers move along the packaging assembly line as workers Shaira Brinkley, left, and Regina Preston, right, place colored Sharpies ...

Ciena Corp, a telco and network equipment maker third quarter revenues increased 5% to $253.2 million and net income fell 59% to $11.7 million or 12 cents a share.

Next to "no," parents with speaking toddlers are likely to be hit with a verbal arsenal of "whys" as their little ones start exploring the world around them.

Artificial turf may save water and reduce pesticides, but some brands from manufacturers in Georgia and Florida contain lead-based coloring that can harm consumers - especially children - according to lawsuits ...

Own-brand toothpaste and washing-up liquid maker McBride has blamed cut-throat supermarkets and the high oil price for its plans to slash about 250 British jobs.

Conventional wisdom had long held that some industries would collapse if oil topped $100 a barrel.

Anglo-Dutch consumer-goods giant Unilever on Thursday said Paul Polman, outgoing head of Nestle's Americas business and a Procter & Gamble veteran, will replace Patrick Cescau as its next chief executive.

Retailers J.C. Penney Co. Inc. and Pier 1 Inc. both reported declines in same-store sales for the month of August.

Procter & Gamble Co. has acquired Nioxin Research Laboratories Inc., a manufacturer of professional scalp care products for thinning hair.

Gary Oden has known for weeks that the plant in DeWitt where he has helped build Vise-Grips, 1 of Nebraska's most famous products, would be shutting down.

Pier 1 Imports said its same-store sales in its fiscal second quarter were down 1.7% from the same period a year ago, as better traffic and closing ratios were offset by a lower average ticket.

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As oil prices surged this year, manufacturers raised the prices of a lot of products - not just gasoline but lotions, toothpaste, plastics and many more that use oil as a raw material.

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Nervous residents rushed to buy plywood and generators while emergency officials in Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas weighed possible evacuations Tuesday as Tropical Storm Hanna shifted toward ...

San Francisco-based Williams-Sonoma Inc., the biggest U.S. gourmet-cookware chain, said second-quarter earnings dropped after it reduced prices to lure shoppers discouraged by the worst housing slump since the ...