Sentence examples for major consumer products from inspiring English sources

P.& G. is the second major consumer products company to announce large-scale layoffs.

Orders declined for durable goods — major consumer products like appliances, airplanes and machinery — but a crucial measure of business spending rose.

As the chief executive of a major consumer products company, Sunbeam, he was firing thousands of workers and wowing Wall Street.

Sales that year topped $100 million, and several other major consumer products companies came out with their own "green" cleaning supplies.

Interleukin Genetics, a company that studies variations of genes involved in inflammation, announced last month that it was in talks with a "major consumer products company" about developing nutritional supplements and skin care products based on genetic information.

Johnson & Johnson, which makes a range of personal care products like baby shampoo, acne cream and antiwrinkle lotion, announced plans Wednesday to remove a host of potentially harmful chemicals, like formaldehyde, from its line of consumer products by the end of 2015, becoming the first major consumer products company to make such a widespread commitment.

Congress has not adopted major consumer product legislation in 18 years.

Both Dash and its first major consumer product are an outgrowth of U.C. Berkeley's Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, which draw inspiration from nature to build more efficient robotics. .  .

That could change in a hurry, though, if the maker of a major consumer product decides to use copyright law to crimp the market for its used goods.

While flour is no longer produced in Minneapolis, the major milling companies now major consumer-products firms retain their headquarters there.

People "close to the search" have debated the talents and shortcomings of the leading candidates, almost all of whom are still employed as executives of other major consumer-product companies.