Fabric and home care sales were up 10percentto to $3.4 billion.
Duracell sales rose 12percentto to $770 million, and oral care sales jumped 28percentto to $498 million.
Biz represents less than 1percentt of Procter's total global fabric and home care sales in the 2000 fiscal year.
Excluding care sales, which tend to be volatile, sales were down 0.3 percent from November, falling short of the forecast of a 0.2 percent increase.
Her mother retired as a senior vice president for health-care sales at William H. Connolly & Company, an insurance brokerage in Montclair, N.J.
Her mother retired as a senior vice president for health care sales at William H. Connolly & Company, an insurance agency in Montclair, N.J.
From 1991 to 1999, long-term-care sales helped drive total revenue gains of roughly 500percentt each at Penn Treaty and Conseco, including its affiliate Bankers Life.
In fact, Ms. Birthwright, who formerly worked in home health care sales, got into the mortgage lending business after applying for one of these loans herself, in 2007, to buy and renovate a home in Mullica Hill.
The company said last month that income fell last year by 22percentto to $14.9 million, and that a decline of lens care sales by about 21percentt reduced overall revenue to $2.29 billion, down about 2.5percentt from 2005.
The Church & Dwight Company, the maker of Arm & Hammer toothpaste, has agreed to buy Unilever's Mentadent and Pepsodent business in the United States and Canada for $104 million to more than double its oral care sales in the United States.
