Sentence examples for procter from inspiring English sources
He managed a few years in Congress, but found that running newspapers gave him more power.Mr Procter has had access to previously unseen family papers, but they add little to our knowledge of an already well documented life.
Yet the goods the rich consume are, to a startling extent, mass consumption; their claim on the output of Starbucks, Procter and Gamble, Haagen Dazs and so forth is a trivial drop in a very large stream of consumer dollars.
Unilever needed to change urgently.Related items Procter & Gamble: Will she, won't she Aug 9th 2007 Unilever: Slim fastFeb 10th 2005That would involve removing unnecessary complexity and bureaucracy, much of it accumulated over decades of operating in almost every country in the world.
"India has recognised that we have to be a market-based economy", argues Gurcharan Das, a writer and former local head of Procter and Gamble, calling Mr Modi "the best chance we have of getting back to high growth".
Companies are scouring the world for new ideas (Procter and Gamble, for example, uses "crowdsourcing" to collect ideas from the general public).
And in July this year Procter & Gamble invited women to text their secrets to Times Square's giant screens, as part of a promotion for its Secret deodorant.
As for consumer goods companies and grocery stores, the report offers qualified praise for Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever.
The corporations involved include Shire, Icap, Ikea, Burberry, Procter & Gamble, Heinz, JP Morgan and FedEx.
Established firms, including global giants such as Procter & Gamble, hold sway in towns and cities, though still only 25% of women use their products.
Part of the answer is that investors assume that active portfolio managers such as GE and Procter & Gamble (a consumer-goods giant which recently announced the $3 billion sale of its Folgers coffee business) are very focused on growth.
Procter & Gamble, which is to toiletries what VW is to cars, stumbled after "taking on every competitor in every category in every region of the world at once," as an analyst put it in The Economist last week.
