Procter & Gamble's CEO A.G. Lafley will try to placate Wall Street at the Consumer Analyst Group of New York annual conference. Analysts think the most likely announcement in the company's two-year turnaround plan would be another brand spinoff. Maybe Braun appliances. Or possibly closure of factories or distribution centers. Lafley last year announced the company would slim down to 70 or 80 brands.

Steve Forbes notes, in this column, that some of the most successful Americans didn't find themselves and emerge into a successful life and career until they were middle age or older. In this must-read column, Forbes makes the point that the new Silicon exclusivity adores the Ivy-educated macrocephalic child genius. Older people who went to State U. need not apply.

Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc. will roll out touchscreen Ziosk tablets systemwide this year, allowing customers to order and pay without having to bother a waitron. The company said the Ziosk tablets are meant to improve the customer experience and remove the "pain point" of waiting for a check at the end of the meal. The seven-inch tablets let customers order meals and request refills, pay , play interactive games, and sign up for a loyalty program.

PepsiCo's Sierra Mist soda is ditching corn syrup for sugar and adding stevia for a 20% calorie reduction. It's the company's first Stevia-infused soda, but its perennial rival came into the market first with with Coca-Cola Life. The packaging has also changed, principally with a new "M", with a font suggesting two mountains.

Heineken's UK arm has followed up last year's #ShareTheSofa campaign with a new online platform encouraging people share their match day rituals using the #ChampionTheMatch hashtag. Heineken will encourage fans to use the tag when sharing and talking about football on social media. Agency of record Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam has created a 90-second ad supporting it.

Honda, which has been reeling due to a series of recalls in the U.S., scrapped its global sales target of 6 million units by the end of 2017 as it follows the example of one of its principal Japanese rivals, Toyota, which is also scaling back sales targets. Takanobu Ito, Honda's chief executive, told reporters during a test drive in northern Japan that Honda will reduce the number of variations of its vehicles it manufactures.

Sources at American Express, which is ending its partnership with Costco, say the company is doing likewise with JetBlue Airways. The airline has apparently opted to sign new agreements with Barclays Plc and MasterCard Inc. New York-based AmEx, the largest credit-card issuer by purchases, has partnered with JetBlue since 2005. In December AmEx renewed its agreement with Delta Air Lines to be the carrier's exclusive credit-card issuer.

LG's top executive for appliances apparently took matters into his own hands against rival Samsung, wrecking the latter's washing machines at a German store. South Korean prosecutors have charged both the executive, Jo Seong-Jin, and two other LG employees with purposefully damaging the laundry machines. The two companies are apparently in a state of war as Samsung Display workers were charged with stealing OLED screen technology from LG Display. No demilitarized zone in sight, just yet.

In spite of competition, potential capacity shortage and talent shortfall, Nissan is looking at plans to add more production capacity in North America as part of its efforts to raise its marketshare in the U.S. to 10% by the end of 2017. Jose Munoz, chairman of Nissan North America, told the Economic Club of Chicago that the Japanese automakers remains committed to its goal of capturing additional marketshare in the U.S.

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