The Clorox Company (NYSE:CLX) 1221 Broadway Oakland, CA 94612-1888 Phone: (510) 271-7000 Fax: http://www.thecloroxcompany.com
Clorox Company was founded in Oakland, Calif., in 1913 and is incorporated in Delaware. The Company is a leading manufacturer and marketer of consumer products. The Company sells its products mainly through mass merchandisers, grocery stores and other retail outlets. It markets some of consumers' most trusted and recognized brand names, including its namesake bleach and cleaning products, Green Works(tm) natural cleaners and laundry products, Poett(r)and Mistolin(r)cleaning products, Armor All(r) and STP(r) auto-care products, Fresh Step(r) and Scoop Away(r) cat litter, Kingsford(r) charcoal, Hidden Valley(r) and K C Masterpiece(r) dressings and sauces, Brita(r) water-filtration systems, Glad(r) bags, wraps and containers, and Burt's Bees(r) natural personal care products. With approximately 8,300 employees worldwide, the Company manufactures products in more than two dozen countries and markets them in more than 100 countries. The Company operates through strategic business units which are aggregated into four reportable segments: Cleaning, Lifestyle, Household and International. Cleaning consists of laundry, home-care, professional products and auto-care products marketed and sold in the United States. Products within this segment include laundry additives, including bleaches, under the Clorox(r) and Clorox 2(r) brands home-care products, mainly under the Clorox(r), Formula 409(r), Liquid-Plumr(r), Pine-Sol(r), S.O.S(r) and Tilex(r) brands natural cleaning and laundry products under the Green Works(tm) brand and auto-care products mainly under the Armor All(r) and STP(r) brands. Lifestyle consists of food products and water-filtration systems and filters marketed and sold in the United States and all natural personal care products. Products within this segment include dressings and sauces, mainly under the Hidden Valley(r) and K C Masterpiece(r) brands water-filtration systems and filters under the Brita(r) brand and all natural personal care products under the Burt's Bees(r) brand. Household consists of charcoal, cat litter and plastic bags, wraps and container products marketed and sold in the United States. Products within this segment include plastic bags, wraps and containers, under the Glad(r) brand cat litter products, under the Fresh Step(r), Scoop Away (r) and Ever Clean(r) brands and charcoal products under the Kingsford(r) and Match Light(r) brands. International consists of products sold outside the United States. These products include home-care, laundry, auto-care, water filtration, charcoal and cat litter products, dressings, plastic bags, wraps and containers, and insecticides, mainly under the Clorox(r), Javex(r), Glad(r), PinoLuz(r), Ayudin(r), Limpido(r), Clorinda(r), Poett(r), Mistolin(r), Lestoil(r), Bon Bril(r), Nevex(r), Brita(r), Armor All(r), STP(r), Green Works(r), Sabra(r), Pine-Sol(r) and Agua Jane(r), Ever Clean(r), Chux(r), Kingsford(r), and Hidden Valley(r) brands. Most of the Company's products are nationally advertised and sold within the United States to mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs, and dollar, military and other types of retail stores mainly through a direct sales force, and to grocery stores and grocery wholesalers mainly through a combination of direct sales teams and a network of brokers. The markets for consumer products are highly competitive. Most of the Company's products compete with other nationally advertised brands within each category and with "private label" brands and "generic" nonbranded products in certain categories. The Company must comply with various environmental laws and regulations in the jurisdictions in which it operates, including those relating to air emissions, water discharges, the handling and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes and the remediation of contamination associated with the use and disposal of hazardous substances.
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