CL Colgate Palmolive Co

Consumer-products maker Colgate-Palmolive Co. (CL) said Friday that it has received approval to delist its common stock from the Amsterdam stock exchange.

The shares will be delisted from NYSE Euronext Amsterdam before the opening of the market on June 21. The last date to trade the company's shares there will be June 18.

The New York-based company delisted from NYSE Euronext Paris in April and says it plans to remove its stock from other European exchanges. The stock trades in Frankfurt, London and Zurich.

Colgate-Palmolive shares were down 72 cents to $79.58 on the New York Stock Exchange early Friday afternoon.

Company news release: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100521005528&newsLang=en

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