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David Taylor will take the helm as CEO of the world’s biggest advertising spender, Procter & Gamble Co., as of Nov. 1, the company announced today, a move widely anticipated since global beauty duties were added to his role as group president-global health and grooming earlier this year.

Mr. Taylor, 56, has been at P&G since 1980, and group president one level from CEO since 2013. But he’s made relatively few public appearances with investors compared to other contenders for the top job over the years and was until recently a relative dark horse, despite leading some of P&G’s more successful if less glamorous brands. Here are some things you probably didn’t know about P&G’s putative next CEO.

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