Procter & Gamble (PG)

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Procter & Gamble Co., the maker of Tide laundry detergent and Head & Shoulders shampoo, announced yesterday it will raise prices as much as 16 percent because of higher costs for plastic, energy and paper.

The increases are the Cincinnati-based company's steepest in at least 18 months.

Procter & Gamble is betting customers will continue to buy its Gillette shaving cream and Ivory soap rather than switch to store brands with lower prices.

– Bloomberg

[arthur]

Wonder why nobody look at this counter.


The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is focused on providing branded consumer packaged goods. The Company’s products are sold in over 180 countries worldwide primarily through mass merchandisers, grocery stores, membership club stores, drug stores and in high-frequency stores, the neighborhood stores, which serve consumers in developing markets. As of June 30, 2009, the Company was organized into three Global Business Units: Beauty; Health and Well-Being, and Household Care. The Company had six business segments under United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP): Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Snacks and Pet Care; Fabric Care and Home Care, and Baby Care and Family Care. In August 2009, AnimalScan, LLC announced that it has acquired Iams Pet Imaging, LLC from The Procter & Gamble Company and ProScan Imaging. In July 2010, Sara Lee Corporation completed the sale of its air care business to The Procter & Gamble Company. (Taken from Yahoo Fin)

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[iam802]

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As it requires registration to view the full article, I have only extracted part of it.



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Inside P&G’s digital revolution

https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Retai ... ution_2893

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In our manufacturing plants, for example, we have systems that allow people to use iPads to download data off the production line in real time and communicate that to a place where we roll the data up. We’re not there yet, but we envision a system where I could literally see, on my laptop, any product at any moment as it goes through the manufacturing line of any one of our plants. And what I’d love to be able to do is see the costs of that product at the same time. It’s challenging because accounting systems aren’t designed today for operations—they tend to look backward—but we’re working on integrating our operational system with the financial system to move in that direction.

In transport and logistics, we created a digitally enhanced operational program we call Control Tower that lets us see all the transportation we’re doing: inbound, outbound, raw materials, finished product. We’re probably the second- or third-largest user of trucks in the United States, and through this technology we’ve been able to reduce “deadhead” movement1 by about 15 percent. This reduces costs and carbon monoxide. In circumstances where we use distributors, a similar interface, called Distributor Connect, lets us link directly with them and help them run their business. This benefits all of us by improving service and reducing inventory across the supply chain.

We want to be digitally connected to retailers too. For example, we use and support GDSN,2 which is basically a standardized data warehouse that allows us to do commerce with our retail partners in a totally automated way, with no human intervention. The industry association GS1 did a study a few years ago that found that 70 percent of orders between retailers and suppliers had errors. But if everyone used a common data warehouse like GDSN—where the data are kept dynamically correct—that number goes down to virtually zero, and it saves millions of dollars in doing commerce together.

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[iam802]

P&G To Lay Off 1,600 After Discovering It's Free To Advertise On Facebook

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/pg-ceo-t ... z1lFgDgsWP

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P&G dumping 90 brands
http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/01/news/co ... ?iid=HP_LN

[winston]

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Best Dividend Stocks Shelling Out for 100-Plus Years: Procter & Gamble Co (PG)
Dividend Yield: 3.3%
Dividends Paid Since: 1891

Another household name that’s been paying dividends since the 19th century, Procter & Gamble Co (NYSE:PG) is a stereotypical Dividend Aristocrat.

The consumer goods giant’s biggest obstacle moving forward is probably something entirely out of its control: foreign exchange fluctuations. As a truly diversified multinational conglomerate, don’t expect PG stock to bring any windfall profits as long as the dollar retains its strength.

On the flip side, the greenback recently hit a two-month low; if that trend ends up having legs, PG stock owners will be grateful.

Richard Band, low-risk growth investor and the editor of Profitable Investing, is still bullish on PG stock, saying that it “continues to stand out as a much better value than its peers, because Wall Street is giving Procter & Gamble almost no credit for the radical restructuring CEO A.G. Lafley has set in motion.”

Source: InvestorPlace

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World Dominator Procter & Gamble falls 12% in 2015.

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Consumer-staples giant Procter & Gamble struggles… down 14% in 2015.

[winston]

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Top Stocks #1: Procter & Gamble (PG) by Richard Band

If I had to name just one stock that could defy even a major bear market for the Dow, it would be Procter & Gamble (PG).

In April, the Cincinnati-based maker of Crest, Tide, Pampers and Gillette products boosted its dividend for the 59th year in a row. But that’s only the beginning of this stock’s appeal.

CEO A.G. Lafley, summoned out of retirement in 2013, has put the company on a “biggest loser” diet.

PG will shed approximately half its brands (those with the lowest profit margins). When the process is complete (probably by the end of this summer), earnings should accelerate as the company pours cash, for innovation and marketing, into its strongest products.

Don’t fret media reports that PG is disposing some of its beauty businesses, including the recently reported $12 billion sale of the Max Factor, CoverGirl and Wella brands to Coty (COTY).

These brands are valuable, but the competition is excruciating, and margins are under severe pressure. Either Lafley or his likely successor, David Taylor, will be able to put the company’s resources to better use.

Wall Streeters, notorious for their short attention spans, aren’t willing to sit still while Lafley’s highly professional team turns around this aircraft carrier. I’m in no rush, though. During my 42-year investing career, I’ve seen this consumer-goods giant reinvent itself three times — and steam onward to greater glory after each makeover.

Once PG completes the disposal of its low-margin businesses, the stock will take off. Meanwhile, you’re earning a sweet 3.4% cash yield, half again greater than an S&P index fund.

Source: Profitable Investing

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Set-It-and-Forget-It Stocks to Buy: Procter & Gamble (PG)

While PepsiCo and Johnson & Johnson both act like diversified mutual funds in and of themselves, there might be no company out there as intrinsically diversified as Procter & Gamble.

When you own PG shares, you own Head & Shoulders shampoo, Gillette razors, Luvs diapers, NyQuil, Crest, Swiffer sweepers, Oral-B, Dawn, Tide detergent, Duracell, Old Spice, Bounty, Pampers and Downy, plus a few dozen more brand names … brands of products we tend to habitually buy without a second thought, regardless of the strength of the economy.

And like Target, Procter & Gamble is getting back to its core business, focusing on markets it knows it can dominate. That is, PG is close to selling a big stake of its beauty and cosmetics lines — including Clairol hair products and Cover Girl makeup — to Coty (COTY) for a reported $12 billion.

With a renewed focus on cleaning and consumer staples products, Procter & Gamble could easily reclaim its position as one of the market’s truly great stocks to be for income and defense.

PG also is a cash return machine, presently boasting a dividend yield of 3.4%.

Source: Investor Place