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On Tuesday, May 14, 2013, P&G’s chief financial officer Jon Moeller presented at the Goldman Sachs Consumer Products Symposium in New York. 

For more details on the presentation shared with analysts at the conference, visit our Investor Relations site on pg.com where key slides and the webcast audio replay are posted and archived, here more...

This Mother’s Day, P&G honors Moms by inviting you to share your mom’s everyday act of love. Every Mom has one – her own little signature act of love that simply speaks volumes. It may be that she knows precisely when and how a favorite blanket needs to be washed to make it soft and fresh again. Or that she can gently wipe little hands and faces clean, no matter what kind of mess they’ve gotten into.

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Earlier this week, P&G CEO Bob McDonald appeared at Fortune Brainstorm Green to share some of P&G’s most recent sustainable innovations as well as discuss some of the Company’s most exciting challenges as it looks toward the future.

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Procter & Gamble continued its long history of leadership innovation launching three of the most successful new products of 2012. Crest Complete Multi Benefit (#5), Febreze CAR Vent Clips (#8) and Olay Body Collections (#9) placed in the Top 10 of IRI’s New Product Pacesetter list for the non-food product category.

P&G also earned three additional spots in the Top 20 with Downy UNSTOPABLES (#11), Pamper’s Sensitive Wipes (#12) and Clairol’s Nice N Easy more...

Today, P&G announced results for the third quarter of the Company’s fiscal year 2013. Read the full details in today’s news release and listen to the webcast of earnings results at www.pg.com/investors.   

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Reaching consumers, solving shopper marketing challenges, and helping solve the clean water crisis. We’re thrilled to have received recognition in recent weeks for our work in each of these areas, as well as recognition for Olay and Global Business Services. 

CSDW Earns ‘Patent for Humanity’ Award

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Commerce recognized P&G’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) program as one of the winners of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) more...

Thumb through your old family photos and find one of yourself from 10 years ago. Take a look at your skin… Do you remember how it looked and felt back then? 

Thanks to a recent innovation from SK-II called STEMPOWER – known as Essential Power in some markets around the world – consumers won’t have to rely on old photos to reclaim that look and feel.

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Throughout our 175-year history, we’ve gone to great lengths to innovate and develop products that make your everyday routines just a little bit better. You can find our products in homes all around the world. 

But you might be surprised to learn that we’ve even taken our thirst for innovation, well …out of this world… thanks to a partnership with NASA that allows us to study the properties of some of our products in space, with experiments currently being conducted at the International more...

Braun CoolTec Wins 2013 reddot Product Design Award

Functional and aesthetic design are one thing, while performance is another. We’re happy to report that the Braun CoolTec is faring well in both categories lately. 

Among thousands of submitted products, the shaver recently won the 2013 reddot Product Design Award, one of the most prestigious industrial design awards in the world. more...

P&G has once again earned a top spot on FORTUNE’s list of Most Admired Companies. P&G ranked #2 in our industry and #15 overall on the 2012 list – just released today.

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Five. That’s the number of sales representatives who began selling P&G products directly to retailers and consumers across the United States in the late 1800s, under the leadership of Harley Procter, son of founder William Procter.

Young Harley, who had joined the family business 10 years before, had many ideas about how to improve sales. The invention and naming of Ivory Soap opened the door to opportunity. Harley knew he had a superior product. Now all he had to do was tell the world more...

P&G Beauty Care Group President Deb Henretta is featured as the cover story in the influential Women’s Wear Daily’s (WWD) Beauty Inc. leadership issue published today. The upbeat feature describes Deb as the right person to lead P&G’s Beauty Care business back to strong growth and shares her unique take on the industry. more...

What did you get for Valentine’s Day last year? You can’t remember? You’re not alone. Maybe that’s because it’s often the ordinary, everyday acts of love that touch our hearts. 

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P&G recently announced results for the second quarter of the Company’s fiscal year 2013. Read the full details in the news release and listen to the webcast of earnings results at www.pg.com/investors.   

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In recent weeks, P&G has been honored to receive a number of awards for our work in the areas of privacy, corporate social responsibility, diversity and corporate citizenship. Read more about the individual honors below.

P&G Named One of Most Trusted Companies for Privacy

This week, the Ponemon Institute ranked P&G 6th on its annual list of U.S. Most Trusted Companies for privacy, an annual study that tracks consumers’ rankings of organizations that collect and manage their personal more...

Did you know that 500 million women around the world cannot read or write? Did you know that a child born to a mother who can read is 50 percent more likely to survive past the age of 5? Did you know that 60 percent of girls around the world do not know about menstruation before they reach that life stage? 

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Top 100 Global Innovators 

P&G was included in the Thomson Reuters 2012 Top 100 Global Innovators list. The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, honored 100 corporations and institutions around the world responsible for generating a sizeable amount of innovation.

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Superior Achievement in Branding and Reputation: the SABRE awards celebrate PR campaigns that demonstrate the highest levels of creativity, integrity and effectiveness.

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Today, P&G announced results for the first quarter of the Company’s fiscal year 2013. You can read the full details in today’s news release and listen to a replay of the webcast of earnings results. more...

It has been called “the most important medical remedy for children in developing countries.”1 You might be surprised to learn “it” isn’t an expensive medication  or complicated treatment regimen but rather a simple task that anyone can practice: Handwashing with soap. 

In an effort to raise awareness of handwashing practices in every country as well as the many health benefits of handwashing with soap, on October 15, Safeguard will unite efforts across three continents more...

For the past seven years, we have made some of our boldest and most exciting sustainability commitments at the Clinton Global Initiative. This is a place for us to join with world leaders, governments and other companies committed to investing in the future of the world we all share.

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Humbled and honored. That’s how we’re feeling this week after receiving a variety of recognition, including a primetime commercial Emmy, as well as accolades for our focus on innovation and sustainability. 

Thanking Moms: ‘Best Job’ Commercial Wins Primetime Emmy

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On Thursday, September 6, 2012, Jon Moeller, P&G’s chief financial officer, presented at the Barclays Back-to-School Consumer Conference in Boston. He began with a quick review of our recent results and guidance (from AMJ/FY earnings on August 3), and spent the majority of time discussing P&G’s growth and productivity plans for the audience of investors and analysts. 

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Seven years after Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans, Hurricane Isaac made landfall in Louisiana.  Nearly 700,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana and Mississippi were without power late Wednesday, and Isaac continues to devastate the New Orleans area. As part of P&G’s commitment to improving lives, our brands and our employees are engaged in a collective effort to respond and help begin to restore a sense of normalcy in affected communities.

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P&G’s 2012 Annual Report is now available at www.pg.com, viewable from your computer, tablet or smartphone.   

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