The category management approach provided more flexibility in restructuring the P&G product line. Brand restructuring or consolidation would have been more difficult to achieve under the prior structure. Brand managers maintained responsibility for advertising and limited promotion programs, but category managers established overall pricing and product policies, which enable P&G to eliminate weaker brands. For example, the elimination of the White Cloud brand by merging the product into the Charmin line would have been resisted by a White Cloud brand manager but was strongly supported by the toilet-tissue category manager, who reported to the paper product sector manager. Category management also avoided conflicts between similar branded products in the same channel for advertising and distribution resources.