force. Employees of the century-old company thought they had seen the shake-up of all shake-ups. Just wait until they see what Procter & Gamble Co. could have in store. In announcing the $52.4 billion takeover of Gillette‚ P&G’s CEO‚ A.G. Lafley‚ said he planned to "learn a lot from the people at Gillette" and talked about ways the companies could combine Cincinnati-based P&G’s knowledge of women with the shaving know-how of Boston-based Gillette and delve into the business of women’s hair removal
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P&G Korea Case Study The main issue of the P&G Korea case is centered around the question of market share. P&G and Unilever are the two major market shareholders in the Korean detergent industry holding 80-85% of the total market share. The remaining 15-20% of the market is held by low-priced local Korean brands. There are no new markets either company can tap for further market share since most Korean households already use laundry detergent‚ making the market saturated. Other than peripheral
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Resource Based View - VRIO Analysis 1. Tangible Resources a) Financial Resources: * Firm’s cash and cash equivalents- The total cash and cash equivalents of the firm stood at around Rs. 271.5 Crores in the year ended March 2009 (before merger with Kraft). Liquidity is important for a business to factor in for unforeseeable events. The ideal cash reserve requirement can be calculated by taking into account and listing possible unfavorable events and assigning probabilities to them
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cultural norms‚ consumer preferences‚ and business structures versus the United States‚ Japan is definitively a market that P&G should continue to do business in. With a population that is more than half the size of P&G’s largest market (U.S.A) and a per capita income higher than other major markets for P&G (such as West Germany)‚ Japan is simply a market that P&G cannot exit if it hopes to continue to grow internationally. In fact‚ Japan is the second largest market for consumer-packaged
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Assume that P&Gs Hair care products marketing manager has the Unilever papers on his/her desk. The manager is considering doing nothing with the information‚ just keeping a lid on the situation and telling those involved to back off. Is this action ethical? The marketing manager at this point finds himself being in an ethical dilemma situation‚ which he is aware of. That is probably why he‚ for now‚ decided rather to “keep a lid” on the situation‚ than deciding whether to actually use the information
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Lou Pritchett ： Negotiating the P&G Relations hip with Wal-Mart 指導教授：鍾從定老師 5/12/15 M10322307 M10322310 M10322311 M10324054 M10324055 游涵捷 Joan 廖東睿 Allen 張芳雅 Fang ya Aulia Annisa Izzati 1 Leni Nur Pratiwi Pritchett’s Background • Born in 1931. • Joined P&G in 1953. • President of the company in the Philippine s Responsible for the United States and North Am erica ‚ Europe‚ Asia‚ South America ‚ Australia ‚ I ndia‚ and the Middle East . • The was global experience with customers and suppliers
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Proctor and Gamble to improve collection times for incoming payments. In 2009‚ they incurred too much short-term debt due to the delayed collection of payments for their products and ended up decreasing their A/R account by almost $500 million. Their sales also increased in 2010 due to the expansion of the Beauty‚ Grooming‚ and Health segments during the year. A combination of their sales increase and a decrease in A/R led to the increase in their A/R turnover. In order to compare P&G to the industry
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TERM PAPER REPORT ON Comparative analysis of Supply chain process followed by HUL and P&G in India with main focus on “Distribution Channels” SUBMITTED BY: Nishant Kumar Gupta & Gaurav Kumar AMITY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL‚ NOIDA AMITY UNIVERSITY – UTTAR PRADESH PLAN OF ACTION 1. Introduction - Hindustan Unilever Limited Hindustan Unilever Limited (‘HUL’)‚ formerly Hindustan Lever Limited (it was renamed in late Jun2007 as HUL)‚ is India’s largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods company
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Questions: 1) The reengineering efforts of P&G focused on the business process system. Do you think other processes‚ such as the human system‚ or other managerial policies need to be considered in a process redesign? 2) What do you think was the reaction of the brand managers‚ who may have worked under the old system for many years‚ when the category management structure was installed? 3) As a consultant‚ would you have recommended a top-down or a bottom-up approach‚ or both‚ to process redesign
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The Custody of the Pumpkin Q&A P. G. Wodehouse THE CUSTODY OF THE PUMPKIN Lord Emsworth P.G. Wodehouse is quite well-known for his portrayal of eccentric‚ snobbish and socially-parasitic aristocrats in his different chronicles.Lord Emsworth is the main character of the Blandings Castle Books‚ which are based out of the fictional Emsworth estate‚ of which he is supposed to be the head. Lord Emsworth is a great sample of a "Wodehouse type"‚ which are characters that bear the unique
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