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		<title>Say it isn&#8217;t so.. Bye-Bye Bruce, Mark and Mary Ann</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in Advertising Age talks about the departure of several X-Gillette Executives who were thought to have made the transition from Gillette to P&#38;G. &#8220;Set to retire before yearend are Bruce Cleverly, 62, who headed the companies&#8217; combined oral-care businesses but has been on special assignment reporting to Chairman-CEO A.G. Lafley since this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xgillette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=37607&amp;post=107&amp;subd=xgillette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kilts Book Available September 4, 2007 for $35</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[180million wasn&#8217;t enough, you greedy son of a B*&#38;&#38;^%! Random House Doing What Matters How to Get Results That Make a Difference &#8211; The Revolutionary Old-Fashioned Approach Written by James M. Kilts , John F. Manfredi and Robert Lorber<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xgillette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=37607&amp;post=104&amp;subd=xgillette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gillette is Cannibalized, I Mean Realigned by P&amp;G</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 00:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week Procter &#38; Gamble announced it would be overhauling its corporate structure by dividing it into three new global units while breaking up its Gillette business. The restructuring will take effect on July 1, 2007. As a result of the restructuring, Gillette will no longer be operating as its own global business unit. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xgillette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=37607&amp;post=108&amp;subd=xgillette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gillette inducted into hall of fame, says P&amp;G lackey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 00:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[King Camp Gillette, has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.  &#8220;When King C. Gillette was granted patent #775,134 on November 15, 1904, for a revolutionary new product called the safety razor, he could not have foreseen that his brilliant idea of a razor with an inexpensive and disposable blade would still be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xgillette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=37607&amp;post=110&amp;subd=xgillette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crest and Oral-B Consolidation Memo to Dentists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[    June 12, 2006  To Our Valued Dental Professional, Crest and Oral-B are pleased to announce that we are well on the way to successfully integrating our two companies into one great organization! As promised when the formal merger was announced last October, an important part of our vision for our combined business was to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xgillette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=37607&amp;post=96&amp;subd=xgillette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>P&amp;G Alum , or Twice Baked</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 21:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first time that these executives left P&#38;G it was a &#8220;regrettable lose&#8221;, but leaving for a second time is simply Twice Baked!!!!!!!!!!! Joseph Scalzo, a onetime P&#38;Ger, was the head of Gillette&#8217;s personal-care unit. Scalzo left P&#38;G to be President and Chief Executive Officer of WhiteWave Food Other former P&#38;Gers who had joined Gillette [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xgillette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=37607&amp;post=89&amp;subd=xgillette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Closure of &#8216;smaller&#8217; of Two Devens Massachusetts Packaging Plant</title>
		<link>http://xgillette.wordpress.com/2006/05/23/closure-of-smaller-of-two-devens-massachusetts-packaging-plant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2006 01:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 23, 2006 Gillette announced the closure of a small packaging operation in Devens, eliminating about 100 jobs. The plant is expected to close by Oct 2006. The &#34;pack to order&#34; operation, which caters to retailers that need special packaging or displays for promotional reasons, will be relocated to Greensboro, N.C., said Gillette spokesman Eric [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xgillette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=37607&amp;post=81&amp;subd=xgillette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>P&amp;G To Close 200+ Distribution Centers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2006 21:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cincinnati Business Courier &#8211; April 7, 2006Procter &#38; Gamble plans to shutter more than half of its 475 distribution centers worldwide as part of a sweeping effort to cut overlapping operations and distill its shipping network following its acquisition of Gillette Co. Procter declined to say which centers will close or how many of its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xgillette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=37607&amp;post=92&amp;subd=xgillette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When will Gillette&#8217;s Ivory Tower Crumble</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gillette occupies around 400,000 SF in Boston&#8217;s Prudential Center. The top floors in the PRU are consisted prime real estate and can fetch $55 per square foot.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xgillette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=37607&amp;post=60&amp;subd=xgillette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Super Bowl XL Blitz Featuring Gillette Fusion Razor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well the Pat&#39;s didn&#39;t make it this year, so let&#39;s go Steelers! Gillette&#39;s Fusion/Fusion Power shaving system is set to tackle the public with a TV spot on Super Bowl XL. &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xgillette.wordpress.com&amp;blog=37607&amp;post=58&amp;subd=xgillette&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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