Archives for June 22, 2005

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Boots profits down in face of competitive retail environment

Leading UK healthcare and beauty retailer Boots has said that cosmetics and toiletry sales have continued to provide the company with its healthiest growth rates - some goods news in a slowing retail environment. Simon Pitman takes a closer look at...

Procter & Gamble squeezes toothpaste operations for Gillette buy

Certain of P&G's smaller dental care operations are being divested as the company readies to seek anti-trust approval in both Europe and the US. But as acquisition deadlines draw ever closer, opposition in Gillette's home town of Boston continues to...

Colipa outlines commitment to animal testing alternatives

In its recently published annual report, European cometics and toiletries body Colipa says that its main focus in the area of research and development remains to find an alternative to the testing of products on animals. Simon Pitman reports on some...