Wow... Proctor and Gamble buying Gillette for $57 billion

[glenn1]

Quite a combination... everything from Mach 3 razors and Duracell batteries to Tide laundry detergent. I don't know if I can think of a consumer product they won't make after the merger. This might be the one company on Earth with enough mass to take on WalMart's pricing policy for suppliers and win.

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[Schadenfroh]

Lets see what those people boycotting our products over our "supporting gays" have to say now that they cant get their shaving products.

 

[Heisenberg]

Wal-mart's economic power is truly astounding.

 

[Random Variable]

What was the largest consumer products company? Unilever?

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Lets see what those people boycotting our products over our "supporting gays" have to say now that they cant get their shaving products.

Don't need them.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Vespasian
What was the largest consumer products company? Unilever?

might have been Johnson & Johnson

 

[imported_Chemist]

57 Billion for razors?

Damn, people are in the wrong businesses these days...

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Chemist
57 Billion for razors?

Damn, people are in the wrong businesses these days...

not just that, read on, Right Guard, and Duracell, everything that Gillette had

 

[blahblah99]

Ahhhh the monopolization of corporate America, love it.

 

[glenn1]

Originally posted by: Vespasian
What was the largest consumer products company? Unilever?
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might have been Johnson & Johnson

If you put JNJ into the consumer products category, yes. I'd say they're a medical device/consumer products company hybrid. Likewise, Unilever is a hybrid of food/consumer products, and P&G was vastly larger (by market cap anyway, don't know if they are by sales or profits). Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly-Clark were more direct competitors of P&G than Unilever ever was.