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InternetNews July 26, 2004 Jim Wagner	P&G Goes Digital The maker of everything from diapers to toothpaste joins a board that will help shape digital home efforts.
The Motley Fool July 21, 2004 Alyce Lomax	No Smiles for Colgate? No pearly whites for Colgate-Palmolive's second quarter. Shares dipped a smidge as investors registered some degree of disappointment.
The Motley Fool July 20, 2004 Alyce Lomax	The Marlboro Paradox Despite what can be seen as a downright difficult climate for its core offering, sinful tobacco, Altria Group, the name behind cigarette brands such as Marlboro, reported a 7.8% improvement in its second-quarter net earnings.
The Motley Fool July 14, 2004 Seth Jayson	Little to Annoy at Helen of Troy The beauty company Helen of Troy bulks up its bottom line and beats down inventories.
HBS Working Knowledge July 12, 2004 Dyer, Dalzell, & Olegario	How Tide Cleaned up the Competition Tide detergent was disruptive technology at its best, positioning Procter & Gamble for decades of growth, according to this excerpt from Rising Tide, a new history of Procter & Gamble from Harvard Business School Press.
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004	At P&G, It's All About Targeting Consumer-product giant Procter & Gamble's global marketing officer explains why its ability to "embrace" the new diversity of media "is really exciting"
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 David Henry	British American: Tobacco Without The Flames Just as smokers crave cigarettes without cancer risk, investors long for tobacco company cash flows without litigation risk. At British American Tobacco the fear of litigation, if not the fact, is being eased by the sale of its U.S. business.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Cigarette Profits at Risk If you're an investor in tobacco, then you have some new cause for concern. Fewer teens are smoking, which may put pressure on tobacco profitability.
BusinessWeek July 5, 2004	Clothes and Consumer Goods: The "Same Stuff" Liz Claiborne CEO Paul Charron says the clothing and consumer goods industries are similar as designers' creativity always "requires context and discipline"
Fast Company July 2004 Lucas Conley	Refusing to Gamble on Privacy Chief global privacy officer at Proctor & Gamble expands on the company's approach to privacy, the need for consistency, and the challenges associated with keeping up with change around the world.
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