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54 min ago | Business News

Gupta Trial Provides Insight Into Goldman

Bloomberg reports that at Raj Rajaratnam's insider-trading trial a year ago, Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein told jurors he makes unscheduled calls to the bank's board members at times of market 'uncertainty'. At Rajat Gupta's insider-trading trial Friday, a bank director explained just how often those calls came during the 2008 market collapse .

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Related Topix: Goldman Sachs, Financial Services, Investment Services, Household Products

7 hrs ago | Seeking Alpha

Dividend Stock Analysis: Clorox Company

Five-Year Annual Revenue Growth Rate: 2.4% Five-Year Annual EPS Growth Rate: 6.7% Five-Year Annual Dividend Growth Rate: 14% Current Dividend Yield: 3.68% Balance Sheet: Stable, but a lot of debt Based on the current situation, I view the company as being approximately fairly valued at its current price at around $70. Clorox has strong brands, but ... (more)

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Related Topix: Household Products, Clorox

Mon May 28, 2012

Global Logistics/Supply Chain

Wrestling With Demand Variability in CPG

Downstream demand signals have been available in the retail world for some time now, but it has taken a while for suppliers to take full advantage of them.

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Related Topix: Household Products

KSTP

P&G to Add Latches to Make Detergent Packs Safer

The maker of Tide Pods will create a new double-latch lid to deter children from accessing and eating the brightly colored detergent packets, a company spokesman said.

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Related Topix: Household Products, Missouri

Seeking Alpha

Lessons Learned From A Successful Options Trade On Procter & Gamble

The last article I wrote on Procter & Gamble was in the first week of April . In the article, I had focused on making a short-term profit with a Bear Put Spread.

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Related Topix: Household Products

Sat May 26, 2012

MyFoxNY

Gupta jurors hear about Procter & Gamble tips

The rats are coming out of the woodwork. The jury in Rajat Gupta's insider trading trial heard Friday from Michael Cardillo, an ex-Galleon Group trader turned prosecution witness who also testified against former colleague Zvi Goffer last year.

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Related Topix: Household Products, Queens, NY, New York, NY, McKinsey & Company, Westchester County, NY

The Charlotte Observer

CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper

The maker of Tide Pods will create a new double-latch lid to deter children from accessing and eating the brightly colored detergent packets, a company spokesman said Friday.

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Cape Cod Times

Procter & Gamble sued over anti-aging claims

A California woman has brought a class-action suit against Procter & Gamble Co., accusing its Olay Regenerist line of anti-aging products of false advertising and "ill-gotten gains." In Superior Court in Los Angeles, a complaint from Lorette Perez-Pirio this week said that magazine and Internet ads and product labels for the Anti-Aging Eye Roller ... (more)

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Fri May 25, 2012

HAPPI/Household & PP Industry

Keep Pods Away from Kids

After reports that children accidentally put Tide Pods in their mouths, Procter & Gamble is partnering closely with the American Cleaning Institute to promote the instructions on safe handling, usage and disposal of the laundry detergents, and remind the public that cleaning products must be kept out of the reach of young children.

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Related Topix: Kids, Family, Household Products

Packaging Digest

P&G adding child-resistant closure to Tide Pods packaging

Proctor & Gamble says it will change the design of packaging for its miniature laundry detergent product to deter children from eating the brightly colored packets that look like candy.

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Related Topix: Household Products, Science / Technology, Robots

Reuters

Tide to change Pods lid over child safety concerns

After at least one child was hospitalized for swallowing its prettily packaged detergent, Procter & Gamble Co said on Friday it will make Tide Pods more difficult to open.

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Related Topix: Household Products, Control Group

WRIC-TV Richmond

P&G To Add Latches To Make Detergent Packs Safer

Release from Virginia State Police: At 11:50 a.m., May 25, 2012, Virginia State Police responded to a single vehicle crash on Interstate 64 eastbound at the 168 mile marker in Goochland County.

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Related Topix: Virginia, Virginia Government, Goochland County, VA, Household Products

KNUS-AM Aurora

P&G to add latches to make detergent packs safer

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Related Topix: Household Products, Texas

WKRC-TV Cincinnati

P&G To Put Latches On Tide Pod Laundry Detergent

Proctor & Gamble says it will change the design of packaging for its miniature laundry detergent product to deter children from eating the brightly colored packets that look like candy.

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Related Topix: Household Products, Cincinnati, OH

FiveThirtyEight

DealBook: Prosecutors Seek to Show Gupta's Close Ties to Rajaratnam

If he had his druthers, Rajat K. Gupta would have been in Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday, attending his daughter's graduation from Harvard Business School.

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Related Topix: Goldman Sachs, Financial Services, Investment Services, Cohen Group, Consulting, Household Products, Food, J M Smucker, McKinsey

Live Charts

PDX half-year revenues quadruple

PDX, a fluid technology firm, gave its investors a much needed cheer with the announcement of its half-year results, which saw revenue more than quadruple and losses remain stable following the execution of a cost reduction programme.

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Related Topix: Household Products

Thu May 24, 2012

Global Cosmetic Industry

P&G To Freeze Further Expansion in Emerging Markets

According to Wall Street Journal coverage of the Citi Global Consumer Conference on May 23, 2012, Procter & Gamble plans to stop spending money on further expansion in emerging markets until it stabilizes its largest and most profitable businesses, putting on hold a key priority of CEO Bob McDonald.

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Related Topix: Household Products

Kypost.Com

Local moms react to poisonous pods

Katie Brenkert sat at a shaded picnic table in Eden Park leisurely eating lunch with her two young children.

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Related Topix: Kids, Family, Household Products

Forbes.com

P&G Tops List Of Most Effective U.S. Advertisers

Procter & Gamble tops the list of the most effective U.S. advertisers, according to the 2012 North American Effie Effectiveness Index.

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Related Topix: Household Products, Marketing, Libraries

River Front Times

Research Finds Red Potato Chips Curb Compulsive Potato-Chip Eating

A recently released study conducted by researchers at Cornell University claims that stacking colored potato chips with regular 'ole potato chips acts as a visual cue to curb your chip intake.

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Related Topix: Cornell University, Household Products

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