{"id":421,"date":"2011-06-01T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/?p=421"},"modified":"2011-06-01T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T00:00:00","slug":"pg-henkel-colgate-keen-on-unilevers-sanex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/pg-henkel-colgate-keen-on-unilevers-sanex\/","title":{"rendered":"P&#038;G, Henkel &#038; Colgate keen on Unilever\\&#8217;s Sanex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/procter-and-gamble-300x217.png\" alt=\"procter-and-gamble\" title=\"procter-and-gamble\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-631\" \/>Unilever&#8217;s forced sale of the Sanex deodorant business is drawing bids and interest from rivals including Procter &#038; Gamble, Henkel AG and Colgate-Palmolive.<\/p>\n<p>The maker of Dove soap, which gained Sanex when it bought Sara Lee&#8217;s international toiletries business in December for 1.21 billion euros ($1.69 billion), is in advanced talks to sell the brand for as much as $1 billion, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the discussions are private. A transaction may be completed in the next few weeks, they said. <\/p>\n<p>P&#038;G and Colgate &#8220;clearly have the financial firepower&#8221; to acquire Sanex. Colgate is &#8220;trying to lessen their dependence on oral care,&#8221; while P&#038;G &#8220;has been making a lot of changes to its portfolio.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unilever&#8217;s forced sale of the Sanex deodorant business is drawing bids and interest from rivals including Procter &#038; Gamble, Henkel AG and Colgate-Palmolive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-news","list-style-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}