P&G the Globalization Years: Lessons Learned during Procter & Gamble's Transformation from an American Exporter to a Global Marketer - Softcover

Artzt, Ed

 
9781662931987: P&G the Globalization Years: Lessons Learned during Procter & Gamble's Transformation from an American Exporter to a Global Marketer

Synopsis

Ed Artzt's personal memoir traces Procter & Gamble's (P&G) transformation from a U.S.centered business into a truly global enterprise.


Starting in 1975 through his retirement as CEO in 1995, Ed played a major role in P&G's global expansion, quintupling the global reach of P&G brands from one to five billion consumers and increasing the percentage of P&G's sales outside North America from about ten to well over fifty percent.


He conveys leadership lessons learned with vivid detail which remain highly relevant to leaders today. His oral history and talks reveal his personal approach to training, the development of people, opening up new markets, care for the environment and the importance of diversity in Procter & Gamble's leadership and society.


His story illuminates concrete lessons from both P&G's successes and failures which which speak directly to challenges business leaders continue to face today.

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About the Author

Ed Artzt served as CEO and Chairman of Procter & Gamble (P&G) from 1990 to 1995. During his extensive forty-one-year career, Ed worked in multiple business sectors. To each, he brought strong leadership, strategic insight, remarkable decisiveness, and an unrelenting drive to be number one.His time as the Chief Executive was a period of unprecedented change in the global marketplace. He foresaw and implemented innovative transformations from restructuring the organization's design, the divestiture of non-strategic businesses, new acquisitions, opening up new markets, and building the diversity of P&G's leadership. He addressed these decisions with courage and conviction in ways that reflected the company's Purpose, Values, and Principles.Ed is credited as the principal architect of P&G becoming a global business. During his tenure, international sales grew from less than 10% to accounting for over half of P&G's worldwide sales. He oversaw the transformation of US and European brands like Pantene, Always, Pampers, and Ariel into global brands. P&G's reach quintupled from one to five billion consumers.

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ISBN 10:  1662931972 ISBN 13:  9781662931970
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press, 2023
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