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Gillette CEO: $8 Billion Loss Over Woke Ads ‘Worth Paying’
Breitbart ^ | 8-3-2019 | David Ng

Posted on 08/03/2019 9:18:00 AM PDT by blam

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To: vette6387

He does have some ‘pleasure bent’ ears doesn’t he.


81 posted on 08/03/2019 10:10:14 AM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: blam
"brands have to risk upsetting a small minority"

Only someone living in an elite liberal bubble would think more than half of the men in the country is a "small minority".

82 posted on 08/03/2019 10:11:15 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: mad_as_he$$

He will leave the company to run off with his gay partner, no doubt....


83 posted on 08/03/2019 10:11:29 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: blam

The article is a little misleading. It sounds like a tax maneuver such that P&G gets to defer paying taxes on current income. Gillette’s fairly expensive as razor blades go. Someone who buys Gillette over cheaper substitutes presumably feels they’re worth the extra money. I don’t see the value, but then again, I don’t drink Starbucks either, and they’re prospering.


https://www.wcpo.com/money/local-business-news/procter-gamble-continues-growth-streak-with-year-end-results
[Chief Financial Officer Jon Moeller told reporters that Gillette posted 4 percent organic sales growth in the quarter and continues to be an attractive business for P&G.]

So Gillette paid a price in that it offended and lost some customers. But it more than made up that loss by gaining others. That’s the meaning of its increase in sales. Breitbart’s relentless hammering on this is a waste of time. CEO’s will look at the numbers and conclude Gillette’s woke ads were a reasonable gamble, in view of the fact that its traditional customer base was literally dying off.


84 posted on 08/03/2019 10:13:08 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: blam

I use the sensitive skin disposable razors from Wally. They give me a close, comfortable shave.

Gillette, Harry’s, Schick, etc. can go jump in the lake.


85 posted on 08/03/2019 10:13:12 AM PDT by upchuck (No muzzy is fit to hold public office - their cult (religion) is incompatible with the Constitution.)
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To: BenLurkin
That's the issue. Deep State, Big Business Board people, Big Academe, Big Medicine. Big Media. Big Entertainment. Identical set of people. You never, ever see one disagree or challenge another one of them.

They talk and may even believe exactly the same, because their power derives from them all bundling up in a fascia to form a strong, unified weapon.

To think freely or otherwise deviate from the groupthink party line diminishes their power; THEY know this but the right refuses to operate this way.

Someday soon the right will no longer have the luxury of maintaining its principles and freedoms: It will be in a fight to survive against the murderous left.

But ultimately it is THEY who are really the willing fascists, not the right.

86 posted on 08/03/2019 10:15:47 AM PDT by caddie (We must all become Trump, starting now!)
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To: Beagle8U

“He does have some ‘pleasure bent’ ears doesn’t he.”

I was looking out my kitchen window just now watching the deer foraging on our hilside, and I’ll bet you that they don’t hear any better than this pr!ck!


87 posted on 08/03/2019 10:17:44 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: blam

As I recall something like 3 to 5% of the market are lgbt? Great. P&G can make millions on that market and give billions of the real market to others.

Brilliant marketing isn’t it?

Somewhere I read that at most 25% of the market sympathize with lgbt.

When are the shareholders going to give this guy his walking papers?


88 posted on 08/03/2019 10:18:22 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: Covenantor
Quite the advocate for rainbow warfare.

I won't join LinkedIn ... so I have to ask: Does "rainbow warfare" mean "militant faggotry"?

89 posted on 08/03/2019 10:22:26 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Looks like Jughead as well.

Lots of companies make razors. Lots of companies make good razors as well.

If gilette and coombes want to just cater to the queer market share they can have it.


90 posted on 08/03/2019 10:22:48 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: choctaw man

..."he doesn’t mind alienating some customers".


OK


91 posted on 08/03/2019 10:26:25 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: cuban leaf

Great product, great shave, great convenience, everything a product manufactured to take advantage of a capitalistic system of economics should be.


92 posted on 08/03/2019 10:26:39 AM PDT by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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To: blam

Gillette CEO and president Gary Coombe reports to a boss at P&G. His days are numbered.


93 posted on 08/03/2019 10:27:31 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: tcrlaf

I figure that is probably the case and that the guy is building a queer wall around himself to get them to protest and further boycott the entire company (P&G as a whole) in the event they fire him.

How is it that queers, like the blacks, can control so much power and yet be such a small group? Why can’t they be fixed and destroyed like the left does conservative small groups?


94 posted on 08/03/2019 10:29:22 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: blam

Not a small minority, Bub.


95 posted on 08/03/2019 10:29:25 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!)
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To: samadams2000

Blade Company does need a homo as CEO.


96 posted on 08/03/2019 10:29:34 AM PDT by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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To: blam

His next stockholder meeting is going to be a lot of fun for him. /s


97 posted on 08/03/2019 10:29:58 AM PDT by jpsb
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Dudes a felchmonger 10000


98 posted on 08/03/2019 10:31:50 AM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: blam

Why does this man still have a job at P&G? I dumped my stock on account of him when the campaign was introduced and will not allow a Gillette product in my house...glad my poor old Dad who watched the Gillette-sponsored fights didn’t live to see this. Can you imagine this pansy-ass allowing Gillette to sponsor a boxing match?


99 posted on 08/03/2019 10:33:01 AM PDT by dunblak
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To: Zhang Fei
Breitbart’s relentless hammering on this is a waste of time

You make good points about the tax sheltering benefits of soft write offs, and Gillette does seem to be gaining some sales, but everyone who seeks a civil society should push back against every aspect of society being politicized.

If every business decided to take sides in political issues, like many are already doing today, then we will either end up in a society with business polarization, or a society where only one set of opinions and political preferences is allowed. We have already seen what societies look like when every business has to promote the party line.

If business becomes highly political as a society we will see one more area where opinions and viewpoints separate people from each other. Nobody will care as long as the liberal elites are the ones controlling the concepts promoted by the businesses. But the day we have companies running ads against the left, or their allies, it will be WAPO and the NY Times hammering the companies.

100 posted on 08/03/2019 10:33:38 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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