Packaging and office products company DS Smith says full-year profits rose as the company increased its share in key markets, adding that it sees last year's strong momentum continuing into the current financial year... more
Unilever, the consumer goods giant behind Persil, and rival Procter & Gamble, which makes Ariel, are fined €315.2 million (£281 million) for fixing washing powder prices... more
Procter & Gamble becomes the latest firm to warn of a "wobble" by UK consumers as the US consumer goods giant prepared to raise its prices by as much as 15% in China... more
Pampers nappies, Fairy washing-up liquid, Duracell batteries, Gillette razors and Pringles crisps are just some of its many top brands. But do you know the name of Britain's biggest advertiser?... more
There is still the best part of 500 days until the Olympics but a crucial deadline is already looming. In a first for the Olympics, the organisers are running an eBay-style online auction for prime outdoor poster sites in London. Bidding, which will be conducted in private, begins on April 4... more
It is a useful rule of thumb about Budgets that the less the Chancellor has to say about how to solve the nation's financial problems, the more he puts himself about beforehand... more
The largest and most ambitious stock market flotation of the year gets under way as online grocer Ocado prices its shares at between 200p and 275p... more
Unilever, Britain’s biggest corporate barometer of consumer confidence, today gave a clear indication that the economy is on the turn as its famous brands returned to growth in the last quarter... more
Procter & Gamble, the Gillette razors to Pampers nappies combine, is about to announce a long-term company man and former US parachute soldier, Robert McDonald, as its new chief executive ... more
Investment: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has slashed its holdings in healthcare products maker Johnson & Johnson and consumer products giant Procter & Gamble... more
Letter from Wall Street: Good Lord, it's miserable over here. Everyone hears the news, but for the time being at least, most are keeping schtum about how it affects them.... more
Retail: Procter & Gamble, the giant consumer goods firm, has taken a stake in Ocado, the online groceries delivery business founded by three former Goldman Sachs bankers... more
Unilever, the world’s second-biggest supplier of consumer products, today celebrated a bumper rise in third-quarter profits with a share-price jump of 29p to 1372p... more
Supermarkets are facing the threat of fines totalling tens of millions of pounds over the alleged price-fixing of shopping-basket staples and big-brand items... more
Mars and Reckitt Benckiser joined Unilever and Procter & Gamble in admitting they had been dragged into the Office of Fair Trading probe into alleged price-fixing at supermarkets.... more
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