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Pringles potato chips sold to Kellogg Company in June 2012 [20] Pur, brand of water filtration products. The brand was acquired from Recovery Engineering, Inc. in 1999 for approximately US$213 million. P&G sold Pur to Helen of Troy in January 2012 for an undisclosed amount. [21] Royale brand of toilet paper.
P&G was one of the first mainstream advertisers on Spanish-language TV during the mid-1980s. [82] [83] By the late 1990s, P&G was established as the largest advertiser on Spanish-language media. [84] In 2008, P&G expanded into music sponsorship when it joined Island Def Jam to create Tag Records, named after a body spray that P&G acquired from ...
The company has its origins in the 1920s, through the work of Samuel Ruben and Philip Mallory, and the formation of the P. R. Mallory Company. Through a number of corporate mergers and acquisitions, Duracell came to be owned by the consumer products conglomerate Procter & Gamble (P&G). In November 2014, P&G reached an agreement to sell the ...
Still, P&G stock lost about 48 percent of its value in the first three months of 2000. [15] As a result, Jager had the shortest CEO tenure in P&G history, resigning and was quickly replaced with Lafley in June 2000. [16] With Lafley leading the company for all of the 2000s, P&G more than doubled sales since the beginning of the decade.
In August 2011, Kraft Foods Inc. announced plans to split into two publicly traded companies — a snack food company and a grocery company. [8]On April 2, 2012, Kraft Foods Inc. announced that it had filed a Form 10 Registration Statement to the SEC to split the company into two companies to serve the "North American grocery business".
In 1948, Edward Mabry became president of Vicks, then known as the Vick Chemical Company. [9] In 1952, Vicks began selling cough syrup, and in 1959 they introduced Sinex Nasal Spray. [ 8 ] The company began selling NyQuil in 1966. [ 8 ]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, an American stock index composed of 30 large companies, has changed its components 59 times since its inception, on May 26, 1896. [1] As this is a historical listing, the names here are the full legal name of the corporation on that date, with abbreviations and punctuation according to the corporation's own usage.
Crest is an American brand of toothpaste and other oral hygiene products made by American multinational Procter & Gamble (P&G) and sold worldwide. In many countries in Europe, such as Germany, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, Estonia and Lithuania, it is sold as Blend-A-Med, the name of an established German toothpaste acquired by P&G in 1987 ...