Abstract
Despite some brightening on the economic horizon, “significant clouds of uncertainty” still loom, creating hardship for consumers and putting them on the lookout for value in the products they buy. That was the sobering outlook delivered by Jeffrey P. Ansell, chief executive officer of the laundry detergent maker Sun Products, at the American Cleaning Institute’s (ACI) annual meeting in Orlando earlier this month. U.S. retail sales of cleaning products have been flat to declining for the past several years, Ansell said. “The bottom line is the economically pinched consumer today is contributing to the slowest growth in wash loads in years,” he told a breakfast session at the ACI conference. But ever optimistic, Ansell declared that the solution to anemic growth is innovation to meet the needs of empty-nest baby boomers who are downsizing and millennials who want time-saving products. He and other executives at the conference insisted that breakthroughs ...
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