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By Stephen Foster on October 26, 2012
It’s quite tough in the Champion’s League of consumer goods companies at the moment as the likes of Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Reckitt Benckiser struggle with higher input prices and price-conscious consumers, particular in stagnating Western Europe. Anglo-Dutch Unilever, headed by Paul Pohlman (left), is top of the group at this stage, increasing [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Bob McDonald, colgate-palmolive, omnicom, Paul Pohlman, procter & gamble, Reckitt-Benckiser, unilever, Warren Buffet, WPP
By Stuart Smith on February 10, 2012
Lapac and Rumea sound a bit like those ancient continents Gondwana and Laurea, which straddled the Earth before tectonic plates carved them into the world map we know. Actually, the parallel is not so very far off the mark. Except, the carving of these new continental landmasses is being done, even as we speak, by [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients | Tagged Anshu Jain, citigroup, coca-cola, deutsche bank, emerging markets, Harvard Business School, India, Indra Nooyi, lapac, Muhtar Kent, Nitin Nohria, Paul Polman, Pepsi, Rakesh Kapoor, Reckitt-Benckiser, rumea, Stuart Smith, unilever, Vikram Pandit, wasp establishment
By Stephen Foster on February 9, 2012
As one of many changes under new CEO Rakesh Kapoor (pictured) who’s also shifting control of the more mature European and North American businesses to a new HQ in Amsterdam, cutting back on traditional advertising in favour of digital and social and redefining the whole company as ‘health, hygiene and home.’ Kapoor, who succeeded long-serving [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged Bart Becht, david jones, Euro RSCG, havas, health hygiene and home, lapac, new hq, old spice, procter & gamble, Rakesh Kapoor, Reckitt-Benckiser, rumea, russia, unilever, Vladimir Putin, wieden+kennedy amsterdam
By Stephen Foster on February 3, 2012
Global marketing giant Unilever, which is currently reviewing its $6bn global media roster, claims that it’s succeeding in its aim of driving down ‘non-productive’ ad agency and production costs. It spent $8.2bn on marketing last year, a two per cent increase on the big hike seen a year before. But the company’s chief financial officer [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged agency fees, commodity prices, cost-cutting, Jean-Marc Huet, Keith Weed, low growth, procter & gamble, production companies, Reckitt-Benckiser, unilever
By Staff on December 7, 2011
As if Havas CEO David Jones wasn’t busy enough he’s found time to write a new book, Who Cares Wins: Why Good Business is Better Business. Here he explains why he wrote it. Six years ago, I was asked to speak at an Advertising Age Ideas Conference about redefining creativity. The key point of my [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Bart Becht, BP, corporate social responsibility, david jones, deepwater horizon, dior, egypt, GE, havas ceo, James Smith, Jeff Immelt, John Galliano, Kenneth Cole, marks & spencer, new book, one young world, Paul Myners, Paul Polman, Reckitt-Benckiser, shell, Sidney Toledano, social media, sustainability, Tony Haymard, unilever, who cares wins
By Stephen Foster on September 26, 2011
Procter & Gamble is the world’s biggest consumer goods company but its focus has always been firmly centred on the US, symbolised by its monolithic HQ in Cincinnati. Now though CEO Bob McDonald says the company is swtching its focus – gradually -to the wider world, trying to boost its 33 per cent of sales [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News | Tagged Bob McDonald, cincinatti, colgate-palmolive, crest, emerging markets, gillette fusion, management cuts, new factories, P&G, Pantene, procter & gamble, Reckitt-Benckiser, unilever, us
By Stephen Foster on June 13, 2011
It does if they’re represented in what Unilever CEO Paul Polman calls “white space” anyway, markets across the world where some Unilever brands are unavailable. Polman has told the Financial Times that he believes Unilever, now in a hotly contested five-horse race with Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Kraft and Reckitt Benckiser among the world’s consumer [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged advertising, brands, financial times, growth, Kraft, Nestle, new markets, Paul Polman, procter & gamble, Reckitt-Benckiser, unilever, white space
By Stephen Foster on April 27, 2011
French-owned marcoms company Havas, now headed by new CEO David Jones, has posted decent first quarter figures with revenue up 9.7 per cent from €329m to €361m and claimed organic growth of 6.8 per cent. The comparative growth rates for its bigger French rival Publicis Groupe are 10.7 per cent and 6.5 per cent organic [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged arena media, arnold, david jones, Dell, durex, havas, Interpublic, mpg, omnicom, pfizer, publicis groupe, Reckitt-Benckiser, Vincent Bollore, WPP
By Stephen Foster on April 15, 2011
Omnicom CEO John Wren and his management team benefited strongly from the recovery in the marcoms giant’s share price during 2008 and 2009 through generous stock options. But with the Omnicom share price becalmed in the $40 range recently compared to a low of less than $30, something else was needed and a new form [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged Bart Becht, bnet, Jim Edwards, John Wren, omnicom, pay, performance restricted stock units, Reckitt-Benckiser, stock options
By Stephen Foster on April 1, 2011
Ever since he was appointed to the global marketing job at Unilever a couple of years ago Keith Weed has been trying to bring a degree of rationality to his ad agencies and all the multifarious activites and companies that accompany them. He’s left his ad agency line-up more or less as was (most notably [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged charles saatchi, collett dickenson pearce, Jorgen Bartsch, Keith Weed, Paul Weiland, procter & gamble, production companies, Reckitt-Benckiser, unilever
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