The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is focused on providing consumer packaged goods. The company’s products are sold in more than 180 countries primarily through mass merchandisers, grocery stores, membership club stores and drug stores to name a few. It has on-the-ground operations in approximately 80 countries. Currently P&G finances show that the cash for 2011 from operations alone was over $13 million, and revenue was well over $80 million. www.quote.morningstar.com/Stock/s.aspx?t=PGND P&G is comprised of three Global Business Units: Beauty Care, Health Care, and Household Care. www.topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/procter_and_gamble/indexND
P&G focuses on five core strengths required to win in the consumer products industry: Consumer Understanding, Innovation, Brand-Building, Scale, and Go-to-Market Capabilities. www.pg.com/en_US/Company/Purpose_people/IndexND
P&G invests more in market research than any other company in the world, interacting with more than five million consumers yearly in nearly 100 countries. P&G conducts over 20,000 research studies yearly and invest more than $400 million annually in consumer understanding. These insights help P&G identify opportunities for innovation and to better serve and communicate with their consumers. www.pg.com/en_US/Company/Purpose_people/IndexND
P&G is widely recognized as the industry’s global innovation leader. Over the past decade, nearly all organic sales growth came from new brands or improved products. P&G collaborates with a global network of research partners, and more than half of all product innovation coming from P&G includes at least one major component from an external partner. www.pg.com/en_US/Company/Purpose_people/IndexND
P&G has built the strongest portfolio of brands in the industry with 50 leadership brands that are among some of the world’s best known household brands,