Procter & Gamble

Consumer Understanding

No company in the world has invested more in consumer and market research than P&G. We interact with more than five million consumers each year in nearly 60 countries around the world. We conduct over 15,000 research studies every year. We invest more than $350 million a year in consumer understanding. This results in insights that tell us where the innovation opportunities are and how to serve and communicate with consumers.

Innovation

P&G is the innovation leader in our industry. Virtually all the organic sales growth we’ve delivered in the past nine years has come from new brands and new or improved product innovation. We continually strengthen our innovation capability and pipeline by investing two times more, on average, than our major competitors. In addition, we multiply our internal innovation capability with a global network of innovation partners outside P&G. More than half of all product innovation coming from P&G today includes at least one major component from an external partner. One measure of the strength of our innovation program is the SymphonyIRI New Product Pacesetters Report—the annual list of the biggest innovations in our industry as measured by sales. Over the past 15 years, 125 P&G innovations have earned a spot on the top 25 Pacesetters list—more than our six largest competitors combined. Based on this track record, SymphonyIRI recognized P&G as the most innovative manufacturer in the consumer packaged goods industry for the last decade—presenting the Company with its “Outstanding Achievement in Innovation” award. In 2009, P&G launched 5 of the top 10 most successful non-food innovations as judged by SymphonyIRI: Tide Total Care, Gillette Venus Embrace, Bounty Extra Soft, Always Infinity and Secret Flawless.

Brand-Building

P&G is the brand-building leader of our industry. We’ve built the strongest portfolio of brands in the industry with 50 leadership brands that are among some of the world’s best-known household names–and which together make up 90% of P&G’s sales and more than 90% of profits. Twenty-three of these brands each generate more than $1 billion dollars in annual sales.

Go-to-Market Capabilities

We’ve established industry-leading go-to-market capabilities. P&G is consistently ranked by leading retailers in industry surveys as a preferred supplier and as the industry leader in a wide range of capabilities including clearest company strategy, brands most important to retailers, strong business fundamentals and innovative marketing programs.

Scale

Over the decades, we have also established significant scale advantages as a total company and in individual categories, countries and retail channels. P&G’s scale advantage is driven as much by knowledge-sharing, common systems and processes, and best practices as it is by size and scope. These scale benefits enable us to deliver consistently superior consumer and shareholder value.