P & G Mason Business Center is the largest R & D center for business in the world

MASON, Ohio – Procter & Gamble unveiled Wednesday its new and improved Mason Business Center – and much larger -.

The building, which now houses 2,800 P & G workers, is the largest research and development center in the world, surpassing Singapore's R & D facilities. P & G spent $ 400 million to expand the center.

After more than three years of construction, the installation is three times larger. It is now 2 million square feet, twice as large as the Kenwood Towne Center, a Cincinnati shopping center.

The construction was completed earlier this year and marks the completion of P & G's consolidation of its former Sharon Woods Innovation Center on the enlarged Mason site. On March 1st, P & G left the old Blue Ash facility.

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The company has moved more than 1,000 beauty workers (Olay skin care, Pantene shampoo) to hundreds of other employees in its oral health division (Crest toothpaste, Vicks lozenges and fiber supplements). Metamucil).

P & G officials said the transfer of beauty workers to Mason would increase efficiency, with Sharon Woods's factory workers being separated from each other since Reed Hartman Highway was shut down. the old campus of Blue Ash.

The movement of workers comes after years of reorganization and sale of certain business units and brands by P & G.

After years of restructuring, P & G employed 92,000 people worldwide, including 10,000 in Greater Cincinnati. Last winter, the company closed its acquisition of Germany's Merck KGaA, which has created around 3,000 jobs.

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