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The Top 10 Personal Care Brands of the Year

Wednesday, 30 December 2009, 11:32 AM

According to a chart of the top ten personal care brands of 2008 posted in the December 28th 2009 issue of Advertising Age, Procter & Gamble led other companies with 5 brands in the top 10.

                                         

                                                                 Share of Advertising        Media

Rank Brand 2008 2007 2008
1       
Olay (Procter & Gamble) 6.3% 6.6% $357.4
2 L'Oreal
5.6% 5.0% $316.6
3 Gillette (P&G)
4.2% 2.9% $239.7
4 Proactive (Gunthy-Renker) 
3.8% 2.6% $213.7
5      
Crest (P&G)                    
3.7% 4.0% $208.0
6 Dove (Unilever)
3.6% 3.2% $204.6
7 Cover Girl (P&G)
3.5% 2.6% $200.5
8 Ganier (L'Oreal)
3.3% 3.2% $189.3
9 Neutrogena (J&J)
3.0% 2.8% $170.8
10 Pantene (P&G)
2.8% 3.5% $158.5


"Most advertised personal-care brands. Share shown is brand's share of US personal-care measured-media spending. Measured-media dollars in millions."

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