# Procter & Gamble

> Procter & Gamble is a Cincinnati-based consumer-goods company whose portfolio of daily-use brands spans laundry, home care, beauty, grooming, oral care, personal health, baby care, feminine care and family care. Its advantage is a tightly linked system of consumer research, product and packaging innovation, mass marketing, retail execution and global manufacturing. The result is a business that sells familiar products such as Tide, Pampers, Gillette, Crest, Dawn and Olay through retailers, distributors and digital channels around the world, producing fiscal 2026 net sales of $87.0 billion.

- **Founded:** 1837
- **Headquarters:** Cincinnati, United States
- **Founders:** William Procter (Co-founder), James Gamble (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 109,000 employees (2025)
- **Products:** Beauty, Grooming, Health Care, Fabric & Home Care, Baby, Feminine & Family Care
- **Notable:** Built a portfolio that generated $87.032 billion in fiscal 2026 net sales., Increased its dividend for 70 consecutive years through fiscal 2026 and paid one for 136 consecutive years since incorporation in 1890., Pioneered formal consumer research in 1924 and the modern brand-management system in 1931.

## Products & services

- **Beauty** — Hair, skin and personal-care brands including Head & Shoulders, Pantene, Olay, SK-II, Native and First Aid Beauty.
- **Grooming** — Razors, blades and grooming devices led by Gillette, Venus and Braun.
- **Health Care** — Oral-care and personal-health products including Crest, Oral-B, Vicks, Pepto-Bismol and Clearblue.
- **Fabric & Home Care** — Laundry, dish, surface-cleaning and air-care products including Tide, Ariel, Downy, Dawn, Cascade, Swiffer and Febreze.
- **Baby, Feminine & Family Care** — Diapers, period care and paper products including Pampers, Always, Tampax, Bounty and Charmin.
- **P&G Professional** — Cleaning products, equipment guidance and business solutions for hospitality, foodservice, healthcare and other professional facilities.
- **P&G Ventures** — An internal venture-building arm that develops new brands and categories around unmet consumer needs.

## Achievements

- Built a portfolio that generated $87.032 billion in fiscal 2026 net sales.
- Increased its dividend for 70 consecutive years through fiscal 2026 and paid one for 136 consecutive years since incorporation in 1890.
- Pioneered formal consumer research in 1924 and the modern brand-management system in 1931.
- Opened an early company research laboratory in 1890 and later launched category-shaping products including Tide and Pampers.
- The Children's Safe Drinking Water Program reached 25 billion liters of clean water delivered across more than 100 countries in 2025.
- Invested more than $495 million over 40 years in alternatives to animal testing, pioneered more than 25 non-animal methods and published more than 1,000 scientific articles.
- Returned more than $15 billion to shareholders in fiscal 2026 through dividends and share repurchases.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Shailesh Jejurikar became Chairman of the Board in addition to serving as President and CEO; Jon Moeller retired from the board at the end of July and from P&G in August.
- **2026-07** — P&G reported fiscal 2026 net sales of $87.0 billion, up 3%, with organic sales growth of 1%, and forecast a challenging fiscal 2027 cost environment.
- **2026-07** — P&G outlined how its marketers are using AI-assisted creative tools to speed content development while keeping human consumer insight central to brand building.
- **2026-07** — The company launched product updates including Swiffer Lemon Duster and Cascade Clean and Dry Booster Rinse Aid.
- **2026-06** — Native introduced reformulated deodorant and body washes, a detoxifying body scrub collection and upgraded mineral sun care.
- **2025-10** — The Children's Safe Drinking Water Program announced that it had delivered 25 billion liters of clean water in more than 100 countries.

## Links

- Website: https://pg.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/procter-and-gamble/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/proctergamble/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDzq6J0KoGCbps96JQuXWRg
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/proctergamble/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/proctergamble/

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