Only seven years ago.

Only seven years ago, package-goods executives titillated analysts with projections of the billions of tubes of toothpaste and bars of soap they could betray if only per capita consumption in emerging markets like China and Argentina approached that of the U and Europe Their presentations showed colorful ad campaigns, of the like kind as one for Procter & Gamble Co.'s highest part toothpaste that drew heavily forward imagery of Mao's Long March-the grueling year-long journey of 6000 Chinese Communists, pursu by the agency of nationalist forces, as they sought to relocate their headquarters across China in 1934 The parallel to their brands' confess victorious marches into new