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Byline: BRETT ARENDS Calling all cars! Calling all cars! Kidnapping and robbery at The Boston Globe! Nearly $16 million belonging to company director Jim Kilts has gone missing . . […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS No, Massachusetts is not in the doldrums because we've sold Gillette Co., Hancock or Fleet. And no, it isn't because we haven't yet persuaded GM to open […]

Byline: Brett Arends The Oracle of Omaha has rushed to the defense of Boston's Pinata. Nebraskan tycoon Warren Buffett, often called the Oracle for his pronouncements and his uncanny stock-picking […]

Byline: Brett Arends This was what Boston wanted to hear. Procter & Gamble boss A.G. Lafley flew into town yesterday, slapped the right backs, and reaffirmed his company's commitment to […]

Byline: JAY FITZGERALD and BRETT ARENDS Procter & Gamble Co. is preparing hundreds of job offers for Gillette Co. workers who agree to move to Cincinnati. Raymond Buse III, a […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Jim Kilts is moving up in the world. Two months ago, the Gillette CEO called himself "Boston's Pinata." Now he's getting whacked on Wall Street, too. Procter […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Gillette Chief Executive James Kilts lashed out at the Hub yesterday, complaining he had become "Boston's pinata" and implying the city has a "negative attitude." The Rye, […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Gillette Co. continues to do an outstanding impression of a company that was doing just fine on its own. The soon-to-be-acquired Hub shaving and batteries giant saw […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS In the end, the shave wasn't even close. Gillette shareholders yesterday voted overwhelmingly in favor of the company's $57 billion takeover by Procter & Gamble. The company […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Gillette Co. shareholders are expected to today approve the legendary firm's $57 billion takeover by consumer-goods giant Procter & Gamble. A vote is scheduled to take place […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Secretary of State William F. Galvin plans to report "within the next few weeks" on his investigation into the Gillette takeover. And, he told the Herald, he […]

Byline: Brett Arends The $57 billion takeover of Gillette is hanging on a spinning toothbrush. European antitrust regulators fear that if consumer-goods giant Procter & Gamble acquires Boston's Gillette Co., […]

Byline: JAY FITZGERALD and BRETT ARENDS The man behind the controversial $57 billion sale of Gillette Co. was appointed yesterday to the board of The New York Times Co., parent […]

Byline: Brett Arends It was Jim Kilts' big day on Beacon Hill. The Gillette chief executive was looking fresh and alert when he turned up at One Ashburton Place yesterday […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS What a week for James Kilts. Fresh from landing another 800,000 share options that may be worth more than $10 million, the Gillette honcho scored a victory […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Gillette honchos launched a counterstrike yesterday against Secretary of State William F. Galvin, who has been probing their lucrative $57 billion deal with Procter & Gamble for […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Ed DeGraan was emphatic. Speaking last week, Gillette's vice-chairman promised that the company's big institutional investors were standing firm to protect the interests of all shareholders. He […]

Byline: JENNIFER HELDT POWELL and BRETT ARENDS Gillette Co. executives pledged to move ahead with a $200 million upgrade of the company's South Boston manufacturing plant in an effort to […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Secretary of State William F. Galvin accused Gillette bosses yesterday of selling out the legendary Boston company to Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble after his investigation uncovered what […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Gillette Co. CEO James Kilts and a close group of about 30 executives, pals and business contacts are packing off for a $10,000-a-head weekend Super Bowl jamboree […]

Byline: Brett Arends Controversy deepened over the Gillette Co. takeover yesterday as Secretary of State William F. Galvin launched a probe into whether James Kilts and other top executives sold […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Even as the reward for four years of spectacular success, $150 million would be wildly generous. For anything less than top-flight performance, it looks utterly absurd. Investors […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS Did news of Procter & Gamble's $57 billion deal for Gillette leak in advance? And did someone take illegal advantage of that information to make a killing […]

Byline: BRETT ARENDS The takeover of Gillette will trigger stock options throughout the senior ranks of the company totalling $1.43 billion, regulatory filings indicate. That's right: $1.43 billion. For nearly […]