The tall, muscle-bound bald guy strikes again. Leveraging the power of its iconic Mr. Clean brand, Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) ventured into retailing and is planning to franchise a new premium car ...

Nicole Malcolm guides the Mr. Clean Car Wash brand as part of FutureWorks, P&G’s new-business incubator that’s also testing Tide-branded dry cleaners. Nicole Malcolm, 30, guides the Mr. Clean Car Wash ...

BOB MOON: The name behind Crest, Pampers, Tide and a long list of other familiar brands is counting on another familiar name to launch itself in a whole new direction — the franchise service business.

Procter & Gamble is no longer content just to sell detergent to wash your clothes — it wants to dry clean them, too. The world’s largest consumer-products company plans to roll out franchised Tide Dry ...

Mr. Clean wants to take over washing your car, but the venture into franchised services could mar the carefully polished image of its consumer-products parent, Procter & Gamble Co. P&G, which ...

Jeff Johnson has been part of the Gerring’s Mankato Car Wash family since 1979, when he was a senior in high school. At that time, the business was owned by Russ Gerring and his sons, who also ran ...

As early as next year, North Texas could be welcoming a well-known resident named Mr. Clean â or his namesakeâ s car wash, at least. Mr. Clean Car Wash has announced plans to open its first Texas ...

CINCINNATI -- Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) premium Mr. Clean-branded car wash business is expanding into Texas. Mr. Clean Car Wash will open its first Texas franchise in Round Rock, just outside Austin, ...