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Gillette held an effective monopoly on razors when Dollar Shave Club launched
“This is, you know, Gillette at the time had, you know, an effective monopoly on this particular consumer product in this category.”
Osher: P&G divested Spinbrush to clear Gillette antitrust hurdles
“Well, what happened is they, three years into it, they were trying to buy Gillette, and Gillette owned Oral-B and Braun. And the deal was being held up because the tooth, the oral B and the spin brush were a monopoly. It was well over 50% of all the toothbrush…”