The Sale to Procter & Gamble

On February twenty-eighth two hundred5, Gillette was interchange to Procter and Gamble for $57 billion.Gillette is base in Boston and was founded in 1901. It sells products in over 200 countries in 31 manufacturing plants in 14 countries. It is one of the leading manufacturing firms left in Boston.Procter and Gamble is based in Cincinnati, established in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble and was incorporated in 1905. To date it has sold more(prenominal) than 300 brands of products in more than 160 countries.Because of the competition in this industry, Procter and Gamble thought it was a good idea to buy out Gillette. They had already noniced that Walmart had the biggest percentage of Procter & Gambles tax income (17%) and this would grow to 30% by and by the merger. Also, there would be a cost savings of $14 to $16 billion a year and a 1% increase in sales growth after the merger.Key Issues One of the key issues is that 6,000 employees of Gillette would be losing their jobs.Another key issue is that severance packages from these kinds of mergers have been seen to be too high. For example, when Manulife monetary Corporation merged with John Hancock Financial Services, the Chief Financial Officer from John Hancock, David DAlessandro, received a package of $16.4 one million million million. When Bank of America bought Fleet Boston Financial Group, Chad Gifford (CFO of Fleet Boston) got $16 million.Now, Gillettes James Kilts is getting a severance package of $30 million and could earn $172 million in cash and stock. In fact, $50 million of the compensation package was directly tied to the merger. A lot of academics did not agree with this arrangement because they believe it should be tied to the performance of the company and not to the merger.Another issue is that employees of Gillette were already complaining about unfair working conditions and retirees were going to have to pay more for healthcare after the merger.