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At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, store shelves were being wiped out by people stocking up on essential supplies. Among the hardest-to-find items was toilet paper. For manufacturers, including the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, keeping up with demand was a challenge. The international company is known for the brands Cottonelle and Scott, as well as other […]

Ask “what’s cooking?” to someone using a Traeger wood pellet grill, and the answer could be anything from steak to ribs to wood-fired pizza. Ask Courtland Astill, and the answer will be M&A with a slathering of IPO. Astill, the company’s associate general counsel, has managed an acquisition that keeps Traeger’s technology at the forefront […]

For as long as there have been products to sell, there have been companies claiming their products are the best. But, as Kimberly Murphy explains, they actually, legally, need to prove it. She’s the global chief competition counsel for Kimberly-Clark Corporation and the general counsel for its North America Family Care Business. The Irving, Texas-based […]

With clients in healthcare, Construction Specialties Inc. met every definition of essential business during COVID-19. And what a greater volume of work the company had as its hospital and clinic clientele reconfigured available space into patient rooms. The company noted for making and using such specialty products as Acrovyn® wall protection and doors, as well […]

Anyone who’s lived through a bitterly cold winter or a summer heat wave knows the value of good home insulation. In addition to conventional insulation, contractors use spray foam insulation guns to seal edges and prevent drafts. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Graco makes these and other fluid management products, which include everything from pumps used […]

When Maggie Drozd joined Apex Tool Group LLC in January 2018, she reunited with Dave Sturgess, the senior vice president, general counsel and secretary whom she’d worked with several years before. She was also delighted, she says, to immerse in the operations of the global tool manufacturing company by helping manage its legal affairs. Be […]

For Edward S. Harrison, everything was going according to plan. In 2001, the same year he graduated from Howard University School of Law, he joined the Chicago-based law firm Baker & McKenzie as part of its corporate and securities practice. In 2010, he was elected partner and in 2014 he completed 13 years at a […]

From the plains of Nebraska, working for large, private and successful companies has been Quinn Kulik’s mission. “I’ve gone from working for a company that builds North America to one that feeds the United States and other countries,” the personable Kulik tells Vanguard in December from Omaha, where both her past and present employers are […]

If there were a time for Alpargatas to put its best foot forward, it’s now, says Adalberto Fernandes Granjo. The company makes flip flops in four plants in Brazil, and the footwear is known globally for being colorful, comfortable and fun. Despite that, the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying surge of e-commerce […]

As a 5-year-old, Tunisia Poole remembers watching “Matlock” on TV with her grandmother and asking whether there had ever been a lawyer in their family. “No,” her grandmother said. Then she asked: “So, what are you going to do about it?” Although only in kindergarten, Poole vowed to change her family’s history to become its […]