The cost of producing goods is rising, and consumers could soon pay the price.
Stocks slid Thursday, although they finished off their session lows, as investors weighed cautious comments from a regional Federal Reserve president about the health of the economy and a mix of quarterly profit reports.
The world's largest toothpaste maker reported disappointing sales Thursday, and who's to blame? None other than the country of Venezuela, the company said.
U.S. stocks were set to rise Thursday, as investors attempted to shake off worries about slowing economic growth and looked to corporate earnings.
Men should buy women flowers. They are colorful. They smell nice. And without them, flora would never get laid. To many, purchasing flowers is cliché or corny or tacky. And to others, it's an outdated ritual in our modern era of gender equality.
The May jobs report, which showed the lowest level of cuts since September, sent stocks slightly higher Friday on more hopes that the economy may soon be on the upswing.
Although you probably use it every day, here's some interesting trivia you may not know about deodorant.
The signs in the window of Jay Kos, an upscale men's wear boutique on Park Avenue in Manhattan, seemed at best cheeky, at worst clueless. Surrounded by glaring economic-crisis headlines cut out of newspapers, they said, "Cashmere sweater: $2,500. Recession price: $2,500." "Lamb's fleece jacket: $11,000. Recession price: $11,000."
Here are some easy remedies for those tarnished brass candlesticks, silver flatware, and more.
U.S. stocks eased at the start of trading Tuesday as investors watched the Federal Reserve policy meeting for signs that a rate cut could be coming.
A few Patriots-Colts thoughts 12 days out from the latest Game of the Century, all involving public, fan, media and team perceptions:
Gilchrist & Soames said Monday it was recalling toothpaste made in China that it had distributed to hotels in more than a dozen countries, after discovering the product contained a chemical used to make automobile antifreeze.
Colgate-Palmolive Co. posted a better-than-expected rise in quarterly profit Wednesday, driven by improvements from its ongoing restructuring plan and strong sales growth.
U.S. stocks, led by tech issues, surged forward at Wednesday's open on the strength of earnings reports.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued an advisory Friday, the same day Panama announced that hundreds of poisoning cases were linked to diethylene glycol.
Tainted toothpaste that entered the United States from China last month was distributed more widely than the discount stores that carried them, a newspaper reported Thursday.
Allison Stuart felt scared during the day she spent at the hospital in New Orleans awaiting surgery for recurring ear infections. Most 7-year-olds would. She had some things to comfort her, though ...
Stocks were little changed Tuesday morning as investors welcomed falling oil prices and some strong earnings, but were cautious at the start of the two-day Federal Reserve policy meeting.
There's no question the greatest opportunities in today's stock market are big growth stocks that are undervalued and likely to thrive once interest rates start coming down.
Securities analysts may pull down huge salaries and bonuses, but there's little evidence that their buy, sell and hold recommendations on big blue chips do any better than the S&P 500 index.
The market soars! The market plunges! About a month before we began putting this Retirement Guide to bed, the market was racing ahead. With the Dow just 145 points shy of its all-time high - 11,722...
Here we look for what Jeremy Siegel calls "corporate El Dorados" - those titans that rack up long stretches of solid profitability. In his latest book, The Future for Investors (Random House, 2005), the Wharton finance professor shows how companies that have marketed "tried-and-true" products for decades in slow-growth or even declining industries have superior returns to firms that develop "the bold and the new."
Investor anxiety keeps rising as the economic outlook gets more uncertain.
Read the extensive literature on team effectiveness, or talk to people on teams in sports, business, or elsewhere, and it always comes down to this: Trust is the most fundamental element of a winning team.
Colgate-Palmolive ranks no. 204 on this year's list of the FORTUNE 500, with $11,396.9 million in revenues, up 7.7% from the previous year. The New York-based company was ranked no. 210 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $1,351.4 million, up 1.8% from a year earlier.
Managing Diversity Is a goal that causes many executives to groan. And no wonder: Noble though it might be, the diversity ideal has been marred by dreary associations with quotas and political corr...
When the market outlook is uncertain, conservative investors begin shifting to defensive stocks. Chief among those choices are the shares of companies that produce consumer staples.
In the late 1990s, veteran value investor Don Yacktman was an investing pariah. The man who began the decade as Morningstar's Fund Manager of the Year finished it as Mutual Funds magazine's Flop of...
The Procter & Gamble purchase of Gillette came after months of on-again, off-again talks, following years of rumor. So the question Friday morning is how long will it take for another major deal in the consumer products segment to be announced.
It seems like the first duty of a serious investor: Follow the financial news, and use what you see and hear to make decisions about what to buy and sell. Most finance professors, however, would ar...
[HIT] The hot handheld. Road warriors have long scoffed at Danger's Sidekick, saying it doesn't run enough applications. But kids love the instant-messaging-friendly smart-phone sold by T-Mobile. A...
OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES, Colgate's Reuben Mark built up one of the most enviable records of any big-company CEO--year after year of dependable profit growth, with stock price gains to match.
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It seems like the first duty of a serious investor: Follow the financial news, and use what you see and hear to make decisions about what to buy and sell.
Colgate-Palmolive stock fell $6, or 11 percent, on Monday to its lowest price in more than two years.
Profit warnings from Colgate and Unilever punished the blue-chip averages Monday, but another rally in the chip sector saved the tech-heavy Nasdaq from the same declines.
Every week a handful of my students arrive to class late and disrupt the discussion as they jostle their way to their seats. Or they come and go during the session, to get coffee or take phone call...
When Procter & Gamble purchased Iams five years ago, many people worried that the rule-bound behemoth would muck up the growth of the savvy pet-food marketer. Iams was one of those companies (think...
It's all about the earnings as investors check out who's been making money and who's been racking up the losses.
U.S. stocks closed mixed Monday, erasing afternoon gains, as the market flattened out at the end of a skittish session that saw the major indexes see-saw from selloff to rally and back.
Even bulls look up once in a while to see where they're charging. That's what Ed Kerschner, UBS Warburg's chief global strategist, seems to be doing these days.
Only one of our MONEY 30 stocks lost major ground in the period that ended Nov. 28, but it was a doozy: Enron, the imploding energy giant, crashed an incredible 95.6% in a single month to just 61[c...
In the seven weeks since we last published the MONEY 30, the index fell 17%. Only three companies posted positive returns for the period ended Sept. 27, which included Wall Street's four-day shutdo...
The MONEY 30 headed south for the first time in three months, declining 5% during the month that ended June 15. All but seven stocks in our New Economy index fell, with brokerage Charles Schwab pos...
The MONEY 30 rose for the first time in two months as tech stocks made a strong comeback. Our index of stocks representing the New Economy posted an 11% gain for the five weeks that ended April 19....
In the natural order of things, you can squeeze only so much growth out of toothpaste. After all, there would seem to be a limit to how many times a day the average Joe or Jane might brush his or h...
The MONEY 30 index, which tracks the performance of blue-chip growth stocks at the forefront of today's economy, fell 4%--to 3668--from Oct. 27 to Nov. 27 (January 1996 equals 1000).
The MONEY 30 index, which tracks the performance of the blue-chip growth stocks at the forefront of today's economy, fell 4%--to 3806--from Sept. 29 to Oct. 27 (January 1996 equals 1000). Colgate-...
STOCKS Analog Devices, Automatic Data Processing, Cintas, Cisco Systems, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Gillette, Medtronic, Merck, Microsoft, Paychex, Staples, State Street, Stryker and Vodafone Ai...
Care for a sullen look? Want to see a mood swing? Just tell a skateboarder or any other alternative-sport athlete that he's "corporate."
In the fiercely competitive household goods industry, growth can be hard to come by. But Colgate-Palmolive is on track for 15% annual earnings gains, based on three legs: extensive marketing campai...
Procter & Gamble is desperate--desperate, that is, for a hot new product, a product you haven't even heard of yet, but that ten years from now will be tucked into every kitchen cabinet from Cincinn...
DEAR ANNIE: When is it appropriate to reveal to a prospective employer that I am three months pregnant? This will be my second child, so I have highly reliable day-care arrangements in place, and a...
Six colleagues are sitting around a table in a Los Angeles restaurant, although it could be anyplace at all. Much serious business has been done. Talk gets on to Presidents, and two guys in their l...
Here are the trailblazers: the 34 women from the Harvard Business School class of 1973. And oh, do they have tales to tell. There's Kathy Glover, who pursued a business career because she "never wa...
The MONEY 30 inched up 0.5% to 2248 in May (January 1996=1000), while the Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.7% to 9064. The biggest move: Hewlett-Packard plunged 13% after posting disappointing e...
Colgate-Palmolive has always been something of an odd duck among big American companies. While other corporations established a bulwark at home and then gingerly ventured abroad, this 191-year-old ...
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Whether you're buying a box of cereal or this magazine, you can't escape the ubiquitous little prison cell known as the Universal Product Code, or UPC. Scanners read the code by measuring the width...
Champagne, anyone? Though the final figures for 1994 are still trickling in, it isn't too early to start celebrating the best profit party corporate America has thrown in decades. Net earnings of t...
It seems fitting that Elizabeth Bramwell's new office in New York City is on Fifth Avenue and has a view of Central Park. In February 1994, Bramwell quit her job managing the Gabelli Growth fund, p...
Now that you've spent hours wading through the latest crop of books on leadership, you can forget just about everything you've read. At least that's what Stanford professors James Collins and Jerry...
Politically incorrect is an understatement. Those U.S. companies that remained in South Africa despite economic sanctions in the 1980s and the early nineties -- including Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson...
The days when parents meekly had to accept whatever financial aid package a college offered are long gone. Today, growing numbers of people are bargaining hard -- and getting great deals. Among the...
Troubled by today's topsy-turvy financial markets? With stocks slipping and bonds going belly-up, picking the right investments seems harder than ever. But for folks like George and Barbara Bush, w...
An overlooked consequence of President Clinton's ongoing efforts to boost world trade is that global investing will emerge as one of the great opportunities of the 1990s. And you can go global in y...
I HATE MEMOS. My people know that. If a deal didn't go through, tell me face to face. Even when I get good news in a memo, I'm inclined to yell. I know I shouldn't. So I got a gadget, a mechanical ...
These days fewer Americans seem to care whether their soda comes in a Coke bottle or a Cott can. But in China, Coke still has plenty of moxie -- as do other brand-name biggies that have run head-on...
A decade of happy days for consumer-products stocks went up in smoke in early April. That's when Philip Morris announced it would cut prices on its popular Marlboro cigarettes by close to 20% in so...
REFORMERS of America's badly ailing education system don't lack for clever, effective solutions. Their critical failing is that, like automakers in the days before Henry Ford, they haven't successf...
/ It looks like a close relative of a 1929 Model A Ford, but it's actually brand-new, handmade in England, and priced at $100,000. Meet Asquith Motor Carriage's commercial van. After successful run...
Even though Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev didn't get the cash he'd hoped for at the annual Group of Seven meeting in London -- the leaders of the seven richest countries promised technical exp...
Medical and dental coverage, a good pension . . . and help financing a house? At many corporations, generous assistance with home purchases and interest- free loans have long been a perk for top ex...
Pet food is big business; otherwise gorillas such as Ralston Purina, Quaker Oats, Colgate-Palmolive, Nestle (Friskies brand), Grand Metropolitan (Alpo), and Mars (Pedigree) wouldn't be chasing cats...
When the economy is sluggish, investors reach for the shares of companies that market soap, toothpaste and other personal-care products. ''People have to stay clean whether the economy is weak or s...
DOWNSIZING, cost cutting, restructuring -- will they ever end? It seems not. After nearly a decade of slashing overhead and slicing jobs, corporate America has entered the Nineties ready to slash a...
The essence of business as we move into the 21st century is going to be tapping the talent of good people. It's not about where you locate the plants, it's how you locate the best people and motiva...
LISTEN TO the new gospel of executive power: ''The more you have, the less you should use,'' says Reuben Mark, CEO of Colgate-Palmolive. ''You consolidate and build power by empowering others.'' Ma...
1990s KEY IDEAS How shall we meet the great challenges of the decade to come? For guidance, FORTUNE sought out the best ideas of business leaders and sages past, present, and future. This article a...
WHEN IT comes to Hispanic marketing, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Remember Braniff's blooper? The airline's ads told Hispanics to fly en cuero -- or ''naked.'' Tropicana advertised jugo...
''Buy Chrysler,'' says Ann Knight, Paine Webber's auto industry analyst. She expects the carmaker's earnings to blast ahead 20% next year, to $6.25 per share. ''Sell Chrysler,'' counters Donald DeS...
Business must take a bigger role in attacking the critical shortage of affordable housing in several regions of the U.S. In areas where home prices and rents are out of reach for many of their empl...
David Richards, 49, and his wife Lonnette, 43, are of an age when they should be battling healthy cases of mid-life crisis. Instead, they are afflicted with an even more modern malaise: the full-ne...
Foreigners are on a U.S. acquisition spree that is giving a new twist to the slogan ''Buy American.'' Economists at the Goldman Sachs investment banking firm estimate that foreign companies spent $...
DAVID RICHARDS, 49, and his wife Lonnette, 43, are of an age when they should be battling healthy cases of mid-life crisis. Instead, they are afflicted with an even more modern malaise: the full-ne...
With the average price of a first house at $81,000, many Americans feel locked out of the American dream. The percent of annual income that first-time home buyers must fork over for mortgage costs ...
1972 THE FIRST money-market fund, the Reserve Fund, is founded by financiers Bruce Bent and Henry Brown. Merrill Lynch and other brokerages pooh-pooh the idea.
REUBEN MARK had been chief executive of Colgate-Palmolive just a few months when his secretary buzzed him on the intercom. ''Sir James Goldsmith is on the phone,'' she said. Uh-oh. Goldsmith, the A...
What does the nose know about consumer marketing? Quite a lot. Packaged-goods companies are trying to get slow-selling soaps and detergents moving again by adding fragrances -- and taking them away...
Advertisers tend to fire ad agencies that also represent competitors, so as Saatchi & Saatchi expanded through acquisition it kept its many agencies scrupulously separate (FORTUNE, June 23). A few ...
COST CUTTING is the new religion of business. More and more managers, having learned a lesson recently, are set to cope whether the future brings recession or boom. They are the new cost-busters, c...
Let the record show that Saatchi & Saatchi is the biggest advertising agency in the world -- this month. The acquisitive Londoners copped the lead by purchasing Ted Bates Worldwide for $450 million...
Takeovers were once straightforward confrontations between two companies: a buyer and a target. But nowadays one bidder attracts another and the action turns into an auction. When the British-Dutch...
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