Church Dwight

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets household, personal care, and specialty products. It operates through three segments: Consumer Domestic, Consumer International, and Specialty Products Division. The company offers cat litters, carpet deodorizers, laundry detergents, and baking soda, as well as other baking soda based products under the ARM & HAMMER brand; condoms, lubricants, and vibrators under the TROJAN brand; stain removers, cleaning solutions, laundry detergents, and bleach alternatives under the OXICLEAN brand; battery-operated and manual toothbrushes under the SPINBRUSH brand; home pregnancy and ovulation test kits under the FIRST RESPONSE brand; depilatories under the NAIR brand; oral analgesics under the ORAJEL brand; laundry detergents under the XTRA brand; gummy dietary supplements under the L'IL CRITTERS and VITAFUSION brands; dry shampoos under the BATISTE brand; water flossers and replacement showerheads under the WATERPIK brand; FLAWLESS products; cold shortening and relief products under the ZICAM brand; and oral care products under the THERABREATH brand. Its specialty products include animal productivity products, such as MEGALAC rumen bypass fat, a supplement that enables cows to maintain energy levels during the period of high milk production; BIO-CHLOR and FERMENTEN, which are used to reduce health issues associated with calving, as well as provides needed protein; and CELMANAX refined functional carbohydrate, a yeast-based prebiotic. The company offers sodium bicarbonate; and cleaning and deodorizing products. It sells its consumer products through supermarkets, mass merchandisers, wholesale clubs, drugstores, convenience stores, home stores, dollar and other discount stores, pet and other specialty stores, and websites and other e-commerce channels; and specialty products to industrial customers and livestock producers through distributors. The company was founded in 1846 and is headquartered in Ewing, New Jersey.

The company was founded in 1847 to unify two companies created by John Dwight of Massachusetts and his brother-in-law, Austin Church of Connecticut. Their partnership had begun in 1846 with the two founders selling sodium bicarbonate that they refined in Dwight's kitchen.The Arm & Hammer name and logo, which dates back to the 1860s, is often incorrectly claimed to have originated with tycoon Armand Hammer. Hammer was so often asked about the Church & Dwight brand, however, that he attempted to buy the company. While this attempt was unsuccessful, Hammer's Occidental Petroleum in 1986 acquired enough stock for him to join the Church & Dwight board of directors until his death in 1990.In 1970, the Arm & Hammer brand introduced the market's first nationally distributed, phosphate-free detergent: Arm & Hammer Powder Laundry Detergent. Recent findings had shown the harmful effects phosphates could have on the health of lakes, streams and other freshwater bodies. The brand rushed to provide a solution and, in less than a year, was able to bring the product from concept to market.In 2001, the consumer product line of Carter-Wallace was sold to Church & Dwight, and MedPointe bought the diagnostics and drug businesses. The same year, Church & Dwight expanded its business into laundry detergent products by acquiring small detergent company USA Detergents, the original owner of Xtra detergent.

In 2003, Church and Dwight bought the domestic rights to Unilever's oral care business, which includes Pepsodent, Mentadent, Close-Up, and Aim. Unilever still owns the brands outside of the aforementioned countries.

Church & Dwight expanded its household brand portfolio with the acquisition in 2006 of Orange Glo International, which included such brands as OxiClean, in the laundry pre-wash additive category, Kaboom bathroom cleaners, and Orange Glo household cleaning products.In 2008, Church & Dwight acquired the Orajel business from Del Labs, which includes pain relievers for toothache, mouth sore and teething as well as non-fluoride toothpaste.

Church & Dwight was ranked 723 in the Fortune 500 listing of companies in 2010. The same year, Church & Dwight acquired Simply Saline and Feline Pine. In 2016, Church & Dwight acquired Spencer Forrest, Inc., the maker of Toppik hair care products.

In 2017, MidOcean Partners agreed to sell Water Pik to Church & Dwight for $1 billion. At the time of the sale announcement, it was reported that Waterpik had "$265 million of revenue in the fiscal year ended June 30, about 70% of which came from its water flosser products".

"Church & Dwight manufacturers and markets a wide range of personal care, household and specialty products under the Arm & Hammer brand name."

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