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Clorox CEO: Consumer is pretty fragile

10:22 AM ET Wed, 19 Feb 2014

Discussing the impact of the weather on the consumer and the overall state of consumer confidence, with Donald Knauss, Clorox chairman & CEO. Knauss also explains how his company dealt with activist investor Carl Icahn.

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