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Kenneth Cole Productions Inc. acquires in an asset purchase the Le Tigre trademark, iconic tiger logo, portfolio of licenses and other intellectual property associated with the Le Tigre brand.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation elects Thomas J. Mielke, formerly vice president and chief counsel for the company's North Atlantic consumer businesses, as senior vice president of law, government affairs and chief compliance officer.

PepsiCo and Unilever agree to expand their International partnership for the marketing and distribution of ready-to-drink tea products under the Lipton brand.

Based on success that Coty Inc. experienced with Information Builders' subsidiary iWay Software, during its acquisition of Unilever Cosmetics, the fragrance giant has enlisted WebFOCUS to provide better business insight on the reporting front.

The Nielsen Company launches Presentation Builder - Homescan, a software tool that creates and automatically updates client presentations with Nielsen's latest consumer shopping information.

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company names Barry Sanders as executive vice president of its North American businesses.

Consistent with its previously articulated strategy to rationalize its swimwear portfolio and implement supply chain initiatives to increase efficiencies, The Warnaco Group Inc. is repositioning its Swimwear Group.

In a joint project, Bosch Corporate Information Technology, part of Robert Bosch GmbH, and PTC global services are going to implement Windchill PDMLink to better manage Pro/ENGINEER data, which is the standard CAD/CAM/CAE solution at many Bosch business divisions.