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Integrated growth strategy, Long-term growth

Superiority of our brand offerings across product performance, packaging, brand communication, retail execution and value
P&G’s integrated growth strategy, in its 2026 annual report

Integrated growth strategy

P&G sold $87.0 billion in the year to June 2026, and organic sales grew 1%, all of it from pricing. Its strategy is integrated: ten categories where performance decides which brand a consumer chooses, superiority in each brand’s offering across five fronts, productivity to pay for that superiority, and a willingness to disrupt itself. Under a new chief executive it began a two-year plan in June 2025 to streamline its portfolio and organisation, and for fiscal 2027 it says it will double down on the strategy and put the consumer first.

Categories where performance wins

Superiority on five fronts

Productivity and the two-year plan

Categories where performance wins

Ten categories1-A

Compete in ten categories: Fabric Care, Home Care, Baby Care, Feminine Care, Family Care, Hair Care, Skin & Personal Care, Oral Care, Personal Health Care, and Grooming.

Hair and skin1-B

Streamline the portfolio, supply chain, and organisation through the two-year plan announced in June 2025.

Share1-C

Stop what does not fit. Fiscal 2027 growth guidance includes a headwind of 30 to 50 basis points from discontinuing brands, product forms, and ways to go to market.

Nine of ten categories held or grew organic sales in fiscal 2026, and Hair Care and Skin & Personal Care grew at a mid-single-digit rate.

Five of ten categories held or grew share globally, and 26 of the top 50 category and country combinations.

Family Care declined for the year.

Nine of P&G’s ten categories held or grew sales in fiscal 2026

Five held or grew share globally, and Family Care declined.

  • Hair Care
  • Skin & Personal Care
  • Fabric Care
  • Home Care
  • Baby Care
  • Feminine Care
  • Oral Care
  • Personal Health Care
  • Grooming
  • Family Care
Mid-single-digit growthIn line to low single-digit growthDeclined

9 of 10Categories that held or grew organic sales

5 of 10Categories that held or grew share

26 of 50Top 50 category and country combinations that held or grew share

The board does not say which categories held or grew share, only how many. Categories are grouped by the growth P&G describes.

P&G reinvested more than its productivity saved

In the April to June 2026 quarter P&G’s gross productivity savings were 460 basis points of core operating margin. It put back 410 into SG&A, mostly marketing, and 70 into its products and packages, and its core operating margin ended 130 basis points lower.

−100 bps0 bps+200 bps+400 bps+160+300−410−70−120−40+40+100−130Productivityin grossmarginProductivityin SG&AReinvestmentin SG&AProduct andpackageProduct mixCommoditycostsTariffs, netPricingOtherCoreoperatingmargin
Productivity savingsReinvestmentMix, commodities, tariffs, pricing, and other

−410 basis points, reinvestment in sg&a. Primarily in marketing.

The bars add up to the quarter’s change in core operating margin of −130 basis points.

Beauty was the only segment whose volume grew

Beauty volume grew about 4% in fiscal 2026. Of P&G’s five segments, Beauty also earned the smallest share of its sales before tax, 21.7%, against 28.4% in Grooming.

20%22%24%26%28%30%−2%−1%0%+1%+2%+3%+4%Volume growth, fiscal 2026Earnings before income taxes, % of net sales (axis starts at 18%)BeautyGroomingHealth CareFabric & Home CareBaby, Fem. & Family
Net sales
$30.3bn
+2% on the year
Before-tax margin
24.0%
$7,290m of earnings
Volume
0%
Price and mix
+1%

The margin is earnings before income taxes over net sales, worked out from the amounts. P&G gives the volume and price-and-mix effects as approximations.

  1. Say what the savings are for, and show them being spent.

    In the April to June 2026 quarter P&G found 460 basis points of gross productivity savings and put more than that back into marketing, products, and packaging, so its core operating margin fell 130 basis points. We recommend labelling a plan’s savings with what they will fund and reporting them as they are spent, so that reinvestment can be told apart from leakage.

  2. Chart growth and margin together for each part.

    Beauty was the one segment growing volume, about 4%, and it had the lowest before-tax margin, 21.7%, against 28.4% in Grooming, and P&G names unfavourable product mix as a 120-basis-point drag in the quarter. We recommend plotting each part of a business by growth and margin, so that a shift toward the faster part is expected and not a surprise in the margin.

  3. Put the cost of stopping things in the guidance.

    P&G’s fiscal 2027 organic growth guidance of 1% to 3% carries a 30 to 50 basis point headwind from discontinuing brands, product forms, and ways to go to market. We recommend counting what a plan will stop, and its effect on growth, in the same numbers as what it will start, so that focus is a decision with a price.

Sources

  1. 1. The Procter & Gamble Company (2026). P&G’s Integrated Strategy. P&G 2026 Annual Report, us.pg.com. us.pg.com
  2. 2. The Procter & Gamble Company (2026). Fiscal Year 2026 Results. P&G 2026 Annual Report, us.pg.com. us.pg.com
  3. 3. The Procter & Gamble Company (2026). P&G announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2026 results. News release, July 2026. s204.q4cdn.com

Headwater is not connected with The Procter & Gamble Company. P&G, SK-II, and the names of its brands are trade marks of their owners. Updated 29 September 2026.

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