P&G's Pritchard boldly calls on marketers to stand up for racial equality

Geoffrey Precourt and Stephen Whiteside

Procter & Gamble, the consumer packaged goods manufacturer, is actively seeking to tackle racial inequality with its marketing.

The current societal and political unrest in America has landed the country at a "cultural crossroads," according to Marc Pritchard, Chief Brand Officer at Procter & Gamble.

And this "unique moment in time," he warned, requires marketers to react to a chaotic shift in values that threatens to undermine a decades-long march towards marketplace parity among different consumer groups.

Since he added the chairmanship of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) to his day job at the world's largest advertiser, Pritchard has been a fierce, dedicated agent of change in the client, agency and digital communities, demanding higher standards of...

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