Is a P&G company break-up on the cards?

Published: 27-Oct-2015

The Ohio-based consumer goods company has released its worse sales numbers for seven quarters

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More pressure is being put on P&G to re-evaluate its company structure. Calls for a company break-up have been accelerating since early mid-summer when Bernstein Analyst Ali Dibadj started questioning the company's future, and whether the company's CEO AG Lafley was catalysing progress at a sufficient rate. The issue resurfaced recently with the Financial Times asking more questions in a major article.

Speaking to Cosmetics Business, Bernstein’s Dibadj reiterated his call for the multi-billion business to be broken up into three pieces. “However, if the company doesn’t improve, I think they’ll come around to it, just like the cost-cutting, management change and many other things we’ve suggested,” he said.

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