Household Product News

It will cost Black & Decker Corp . or New Britain-based Stanley Works $125 million if either of the tool giants has a change of heart and decides to walk away from their recently announced $4.5 billion merger, according to the Baltimore Business Journal.

Home improvement retailer Rona Inc. says its sales have slipped and its profit is down from last year but there are enough signs of relief to begin another phase of its expansion plans.

Procter & Gamble Co. will move almost 200 jobs from its Iams and Eukanuba pet food operations in Lewisburg to the Cincinnati area during the next several years, eliminating most of its operations in the Preble County community by no later than June 2012, the company said on Monday, Nov.

The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange: NYSE: RadioShack Corp., up $2.53 at $20.27 The electronics retailer said it would sell Apple Inc.'s popular iPhone, and an analyst said that could boost customer traffic.

Procter and Gamble headquarters, Downtown Cincinnati CINCINNATI - The Procter & Gamble Co.

Google has reached an agreement to buy mobile advertising network AdMob for $750 million.

Shares of Revlon Inc. jumped on Monday as an analyst upgraded the stock on improving financials and lower expenses.

From its pre- World War I origins in Hartford, Emhart Corp. grew into an international hardware enterprise with 32,000 employees.

The Sonitrol National Dealers Association has filed a lawsuit in California state court here, asking a judge to force Stanley Works to live up to certain longstanding agreements between the Sonitrol Corporation, which it bought last year, and its network of franchisees.

Filed under: Earnings reports , Clorox Co , Colgate-Palmolive , Procter and Gamble Clorox , a consumer-products business that counts Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive as related stocks, may have seen a sales drop of 1% in its fiscal first quarter , but that didn't stop it from posting a nice bottom-line growth rate.

NEW YORK Revlon posted a decline in third-quarter sales and net income as it gears up for 2010 with new launches under its Revlon and Almay color cosmetics, Revlon Beauty Tools and Mitchum.

Christine Jacobs: Her tenure at Theragenics makes her the longest-serving female CEO of all U.S. companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Parlux Fragrances, Inc. announced today that its Chief Financial Officer, Raymond J. Balsys, will be presenting at the Small Cap Ideas Conference on Monday, November 16, 2009.

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Leaner and meaner drug-distributor Cardinal health is positioned for growth. But few on Wall Street recognize its full potential -- yet.

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Revlon, Inc. today announced that its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, Revlon Consumer Products Corporation , has received all of the required lender consents to amend its bank term loan credit agreement and bank revolver credit agreement to permit RCPC to conduct certain refinancing transactions on a variety of terms and conditions, including ...

Oakland-based The Clorox Co. said it is changing how it makes its namesake bleach so it can stop transporting chlorine to U.S. factories by rail amid growing safety concerns and regulatory scrutiny.

New Britain, CT & Towson, MD -- The Stanley Works, a worldwide supplier of tools and engineered solutions for industrial, construction and do-it-yourself use, and security solutions for commercial applications, and The Black & Decker Corporation, a global manufacturer and marketer of power tools and accessories, hardware and home improvement ...

Jim Carrey, Colin Firth and Bob Hoskins have appeared in central London to switch on the city's Christmas lights and attend the world premiere of a 3-D film, "A Christmas Carol." The actors came to the British capital to promote Robert Zemeckis' animated movie, which features their voices.