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A DECISIVE POWER SHIFT is reshaping the consumer-packaged goods industry. Retailers are no longer using private brands as a defensive price lever or a secondary...
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FOR LAUNDRY PRODUCT GIANTS like Unilever and Procter & Gamble, plastic jugs are giving way to less bulky product forms designed for optimum performance in...