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Reckitt Takes Hit From Stumbling Scholl And Price Pressure

Reckitt Benckiser lagged other consumer good makers in the first quarter as further falls in Scholl footcare and lower prices hit the British company's sal...

Unilever Confident Shareholders Will Agree To ‘Go Dutch’

Unilever believes shareholders will support it moving its primary headquarters to the Netherlands, even though there is some reticence among investors who...

Johnson & Johnson Quarterly Profit Boosted By Pharmaceutical Division

Johnson & Johnson, home to brands such as Neutrogena and Clean & Clear, reported a better-than-expected first-quarter profit on Tuesday and...

Revival Hopes Dashed As Ad Giant WPP's Forecast Sends Shares Diving

Martin Sorrell knows a few things about disruption, having built a global advertising empire from scratch from a shell of a company that made wire baskets....

World's Biggest Companies Are Getting Greener, CDP Finds

A growing number of the world’s biggest companies are setting greenhouse-gas targets in line with global efforts to curb global warming to below 2 de...

Consumers Spent €4.3 Billion More On FMCG Products In 2016: Nielsen

Consumers in Western Europe last year spent an additional €4.3 billion on FMCG products in the grocery retail sector, according to research firm Niels...

Reckitt Benckiser Set To Complete Mead Johnson Acquisition

Consumer health and hygiene firm Reckitt Benckiser has announced that it is set to complete its acquisition of the Mead Johnson Nutrition Company later thi...

Cost-Cutting Initiatives To Continue Driving FMCG Profits: Moody's

Cost-cutting initiatives will continue to be the primary driver of profit growth in the consumer packaged-goods sector, according to a new outlook report f...