In December, the company credited waning demand deteriorating for its office, home and cleaning products, despite its strong portfolio of consumer staples brands that include Paper Mate, Rubbermaid and Graco.

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The company is seeing strong demand for both its Roomba and Scooba lines of home cleaning robots, as well as its military robots.

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Asset sales are an attractive way of cleaning up the public balance-sheet without doing anything that further chokes demand.

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