Word: procter
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...basis of canola's virtues, American sales have doubled over the past two years, though canola still accounts for only 2.3% of all oils consumed in the U.S. Four years ago, Procter & Gamble converted its Puritan cooking-oil line from a soy-sunflower blend to 100% canola. Earlier this year Dean Foods, a Virginia-based company, rolled out a margarine rich in canola. Next year Frito-Lay plans to introduce SunChips, corn chips fried in canola oil. This surge of interest has caused a boomlet in Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana, where growers are starting to plant acreage...
Bareknuckle competition is the credo of American business, but James and Linda Newton may have taken things too far. In a lawsuit filed last week, Procter & Gamble accuses the Parsons, Kans., couple of promoting their independent Amway distributorship by linking P&G to satanism. The Newtons allegedly circulated a flyer claiming that the president of P&G "gave Satan all the credit for his riches" and offering information on "alternative products." For more than a decade, P&G has been bedeviled by the satanism charge. Tales that its 108-year-old moon-and-stars logo was demonic forced the symbol...
...Boycott Folgers coffee. What it brews is misery and death." Narrated by actor Ed Asner, that TV attack ad has sparked a battle between a San Francisco-based peace group called Neighbor to Neighbor and corporate giant Procter & Gamble, whose Folgers brand is the top-selling U.S. coffee. The 30- sec. spot, which aired earlier this month on CBS affiliate WHDH in Boston, accuses Procter & Gamble of prolonging the ten-year civil war in El Salvador by buying Salvadoran coffee beans, the country's leading export, and thereby supporting the right-wing government of President Alfredo Cristiani...
...Procter & Gamble, the charges have been too bitter to swallow. In an angry response, the Cincinnati-based consumer products firm yanked its advertising, worth as much as $1 million a year, from the Boston station. "We felt very strongly that our integrity was being attacked, and we could not let that go unchallenged," said Don Tassone, a P&G spokesman. He noted that Folgers contains less than 2% Salvadoran beans. "In addition, and this is important to us, we are supported by our Government's policy," Tassone said. In a recent letter to the company, Under Secretary of State Robert...
...argues that El Salvador's $400 million worth of annual coffee exports mainly benefits a handful of wealthy families and helps finance death squads and military atrocities against civilians. "There's blood on that coffee," says Fred Ross, the group's director. "Action by corporations like Procter & Gamble could send economic shock waves into El Salvador and force a negotiated settlement...