Now we have Gillette's archrival in batteries, Energizer (nyse: ENR - news - people ) (26), planning to buy Gillette's archrival in shaving, Schick.
At his boss' funeral, somebody blows up Gillette's limo before he can get into it.
These are the things that fill the lives of most private equity types, but not Christian Gillette's.
Here, it is a very distant second, with a mere 14% share to Gillette's 73%, says Information Resources.
The addition of Gillette's businesses will bring the total to 21 billion-dollar brands.
The answer will test Gillette's unusual approach to innovation in the consumer-products business.
One wonders if, should Gillette's fortunes sour, she will update the book to describe the scene as one of classic overconfidence.
The animal has lost market share to Gillette's Duracell for five years.
Gillette's hobby is to visit pool halls solo in dangerous neighborhoods and, with no cash in his pocket, challenge desperados to big-dollar games.
Gillette's emphasis on refining the manufacturing process is much admired by management gurus such as Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a Harvard Business School professor.
John Bush, vice-president of Gillette's research and development, likens the reduced drag to cutting down a tree with an axe rather than a wedge.
The battery business is no winner--a price war in the checkout aisle has made profits elusive--and Gillette's shares are down 53% from their 1998 high.
The terms of Gillette's agreement with the team were not disclosed.
The slower growth that scared Wall Street last year was caused partly by Gillette's decision to run down stocks of its Sensor and Atra shavers ahead of this week's launch.
Gillette is Frey's first continuing hero (we're told on the dust jacket), meaning he'll be the central figure in future outings.
For example, he's partnered with Gillette to create an online car racing game for Nascar aficionados.
Mr Summers strongly denied one potential self-interested motive for a weaker dollar: to help the American stockmarket by improving the prospects of leading multinationals such as Intel, McDonald's, and Gillette, whose dollar profits from Europe have suffered from the weak euro.
The world's largest consumer goods company, whose products like Tide detergent and Gillette razors are in 98 percent of U.S. households, in recent years has lost business to competitors as it grew too fast overseas and kept prices high.
Gillette, boasts Al Zeien, the company's 68-year-old chairman, launches a new product only when it has made a genuine technical advance.
"It's just a big role reversal, " says James Gillette, an auto-supplier analyst with csm Worldwide.
"It's just a big role reversal, " says James Gillette (nyse: G - news - people ), an auto- supplier analyst with CSM Worldwide.
So in 2003 Gillette took a controlling stake in Fujian Nanping Nanfu Battery, China's dominant domestic maker.
Stadium (home of the New York Giants and Jets), says he called his counterparts at the New England Patriots' Gillette Stadium and elsewhere, urging them to jointly lobby Mr. Chesney's team.
What Gillette likes is that the game actually lives on its own Web site, with FSV's sites handling the promotion.
Lower prices in North America helped spur market share gains for products such as Gain detergent, dishwashing liquid such as Cascade and Gillette razors, which gained 2 points of market share to boast 74 percent in the U.S. male blades and razors category.
In the U.S., Tide Pods drove the improvement in the detergent category and Cascade dish detergent, Gillette Fusion razors and Crest toothpaste were other strong sellers.
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