Consumer Goods

Kimberly-Clark Lifts Annual Forecasts On Resilient Demand, Higher Prices

Kimberly-Clark raised annual sales and profit forecasts after topping first-quarter expectations, banking on higher pricing and robust demand for its premi...

France Orders Retailers To Display Shrinkflation

French retailers will have to notify shoppers when products have been reduced in size without a corresponding cut in prices in an effort to tackle so-calle...

Carrefour-PepsiCo Dispute Sheds Light On Key Role Of Retailers' Ad Business

Carrefour and PepsiCo's just resolved three-month price dispute has shed light on a new aspect of such negotiations which is changing the relationship betw...

Target Shopper Data, Streaming TV Ads Are Key To Its Sales

Target's retail media unit, a business through which it creates and sells ads, grew more than 20% in its fiscal year ended 3 February, Target CEO Brian Cor...

Kimberly-Clark To Reorganise Business, Incur $1.5bn In Charges

Consumer goods maker Kimberly-Clark said it will reorganise into three business units as it looks to simplify operations and cut costs

Louis Dreyfus Company Agrees To Buy Brazilian Coffee Maker Cacique

Agricultural commodity merchant Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of Brazilian soluble coffee maker Companhia Caci...

Clorox To Sell Some Latin American Operations; Take $233m Charge

Bleach maker Clorox said that it would sell its operations in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay to private equity fund Apex Capital, as it looks to tighten i...

Reckitt Misses Fourth-Quarter Like-For-Like Net Sales Expectations

Consumer goods group Reckitt missed fourth-quarter like-for-like net sales expectations with some investors criticising the company's 'vague' outlook for t...