...Fitch Ratings expects US consumer products companies will be pressured by weak economic trends in #### given expected weakened consumer spending and higher operating costs. Nonetheless, companies are an ticipated to offset these pressures through price increases, cost reduction programs and a focus on growing international operations. In addition, debt-financed share repurchase and acquisition activity is anticipated to decline and most companies maintain a strong financial position. As a result, Fitch s outlook for US consumer products ratings is stable. Global economic prospects have taken a sizeable turn for the worse since June #### with a deteriorating outlook in the United States and the impact of the global credit shock. Fitch expects gross domestic product (G DP) growth for the major industrialized economies to fall to an average of #.#% in #### from an estimated #.#% in ####, with global GDP at #% in #### versus an estimated #.#% in ####. In the United States,...
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| Report Type: | Special Report
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| Company(ies): | Alberto-Culver Company, Avon Products, Inc., Colgate-Palmolive Company, Fortune Brands, Inc., Hasbro, Inc., Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Mattel, Inc., Newell Rubbermaid, Inc., S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Spectrum Brands Inc, The Black & Decker Corporation, The Clorox Company, The Stanley Works, Whirlpool Corporation
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| Ticker(s): | ACV , AVP , BDK , CL , CLX , FO , HAS , KMB , MAT , NWL , SPC , SWK , WHR
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| Issuer: | Stanley Works (The)
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