Manufacturing

Whirlpool Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire American Dryer Corporation, a privately held company that manufactures and markets coin-operated industrial and specialty laundry equipment.

Procter & Gamble (P&G) is rumored to announce a massive buying and planning review across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. This comes on the brink of a wave of CPG giants like Coca-Cola, Unilever and L'Oreal, that are already rethinking the way they spend their media dollars. For P&G, it will be the first time in nearly two decades that it has reviewed its U.S. buying account.