The innovation strategy that keeps Gillette in the pink

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The Gillette Co. encourages innovation and creativity in its managers to help it develop and market the string of new products it requires to continue its success in the shaving products industry. The company is preparing to introduce its latest product, the Brush Plus, which it claims provides a new dimension in shaving comfort, convenience and quality. The product combines a shaving brush with a tube into which a cylinder of concentrated shaving cream is placed, with the shaving cream pushed out onto the brush with a twist of the bottom of the cylinder.

Management, Gillette Co., Cosmetics, Health and beauty aids, Personal care products, Shaving

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A new lease on sight: a pink bus rolls into China's towns, restoring vision

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Hong Kong doctors and a businessman are bringing eyesight to rural China with their $250,000 Sight Care vehicle, a mobile ophthalmological suite. About 4.6 million people in China are blind from cataracts, as they cannot afford the operation in major cities and fear complications should local practitioners perform cataract surgery. Inspired by Orbis, a DC-10 converted into an international eye hospital, the pink Sight Care bus could presage nine more like it, serving China's provinces.

Health aspects, China, Services, Hospitals, Mobile, Mobile hospitals, Hospitals, Ophthalmic and aural, Ophthalmic and aural hospitals

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Schering keeps it specialist

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Schering, a pharmaceuticals company, has acquired Medrad Inc of the US, a medical concern, which will become a 100% subsidiary of Schering Berlin Inc. The companies have already worked together in the diagnostic aids business and the merger will mean a full system can be offered to the radiologist. Around 36% of Scherings' sales come from its diagnostics division concentrating mainly on X-ray contrast media.

Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing, Ultrasonic Diagnostic, Monitor Eqp, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Medical equipment and supplies industry, Medical equipment industry, Ultrasonic diagnostic equipment, Medrad Inc., Schering Berlin Inc., MEDR

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