P&G Productivity In ‘Full Swing’ With ‘Reinvented’ Hair-Care Launch Pending
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
P&G CFO Jon Moeller encourages investors to hold on for better days, as the firm is in the early stages of a major turnaround and faces difficult currency headwinds. He noted that P&G prepares to launch “the biggest innovation” in the hair-care category since the firm introduced Pantene products in 1991.
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