Oral Care Tops Colgate Priorities, Ad Spending Grows With Marketplace 'Uncertainty'
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Colgate will boost its ad and promotional spend in 2017 “quite meaningfully” from 2016 to track with competitors' levels. "We focus in order of priority behind oral care, pet nutrition, personal care, and home care," says CEO Ian Cook.
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