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The Rest Of The World Goes Simple

How other companies are streamlining

NABISCO plans to trim its product line by 15% and cut new-product launches by 20%

TOYOTA is slashing by 20% the development costs of its 1997 Camry by taking out unnecessary content

CITIBANK is replicating model branches developed in Chile and Greece around the world, instead of reinventing them in each market

CLOROX simplified its trade promotions and trimmed the number of items it sells

GENERAL MOTORS has reduced the number of U.S. car models from 53 to 44 since 1994 and combined its Pontiac and GMC divisions to simplify marketing

COLGATE-PALMOLIVE consolidated worldwide advertising un-der a single agency to move winning ads around the world fast

KRAFT this spring led a cereal-industry move toward lower, more stable list prices

DATA: BUSINESS WEEK


Updated June 14, 1997 by bwwebmaster
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