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To: Bo Didley who wrote (3802)	3/17/2001 10:06:28 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 5582

"The only thing that Gum Tech is giving up is the ability to manufacture other gum products and any growth in the P&G contract" messages.yahoo.com Where is smucko Dan Zimmerman these days? Where is his great analysis of GUMM's future with P and G?

To: Bo Didley who wrote (3802)	5/10/2001 2:41:29 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5582

Hey Schmo Bidley, make up some GUMMy lies: "Colgate-Palmolive May Test Market Chewing Gum in Coming Months New York, May 10 (Bloomberg) -- Colgate-Palmolive Co., the largest maker of toothpaste, may test market dental chewing gum. ``I wouldn't be surprised in the next little while if you saw some test markets somewhere in the world,'' Chairman and Chief Executive Reuben Mark said at the company's annual meeting in New York. He declined to give further details, noting after his presentation that ``You'll see it when you see it.'' The new product would compete with gums such as GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Aquafresh Dental Gum, introduced last year. Colgate, whose toothpaste sales surpassed those of Procter & Gamble Co.'s Crest in late 1997, has 34.8 percent of U.S. toothpaste sales, Mark said. Colgate is ``shooting'' to have 60 percent gross profit, a measure of how much it makes on each dollar of sales, Mark said. The company reached its goal of having 55 percent by 2002 in the first quarter this year. Last month, spokeswoman Ann Crawford said the company expects to reach 60 percent earlier than its original 2008 goal. Shares of New York-based Colgate rose 41 cents to $57.80 in midafternoon trading. They had fallen 11 percent this year. --Courtney Schlisserman in New York, (212) 893-4069 or cschlisserma@bloomberg.net, through the Princeton newsroom (609) 279-4000/kak