Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

I'm your host Vincent Shen and it's Tuesday, August 15th.

On the docket for this episode is an activist investor putting pressure on a major

consumer products giant and we'll also look at some trends from the box office as the

summer blockbuster season winds down and how that's affecting some companies in

the industry.

Joining me today via Skype is Senior Fool.com contributor Acid Sharma.

Hey Acid, thanks for being here.

Hey Vince, as always, it is great to be with you.

Yeah, we have two really good topics, I think, today to talk about the first one.

It's always interesting, I think, to see how activist investors and major shareholders and kind of influenced the goings

on at a company.

So let's set the stage for our first story.

The major consumer products company I mentioned earlier is none other

than Proctor and Gamble, Taker PG, obviously $230 billion behemoth that's had a, that has a very impressive

portfolio of leading household brands including Old Spice, Crest,

Tide, and Pampers.

So for any fools who don't follow this company, it's important to know that even though Procter and Gamble

boasts about 65 brands right now, that's after the company divested itself

of a hundred others in a multi-year effort to kind of streamline the business.

And if you look back 20 or 30 years, PG has been a very good

stock for investors with market-beating returns and that includes the legendary dividend and I say

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