The leaders in the markets still have significant pieces of market share, like Colgate, which has 70% of the toothpaste market in Brazil.

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In other news, Colgate-Palmolive (nyse: CL - news - people ) says it struck a deal to buy the privately owned Swiss toothpaste company GABA Holding in order to build a bigger presence in the European toothpaste market.

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