BUSINESS SUMMARY Church & Dwight Co., Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets a range of household, personal care, and specialty products under various brand names in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments, Consumer Domestic, Consumer International, and Specialty Products. The Consumer Domestic segment offers household products for deodorizing and cleaning, such as ARM & HAMMER baking soda and cat litter, and SCRUB FREE and BRILLO cleaning products; and laundry products, such as XTRA and ARM & HAMMER laundry detergents, OXICLEAN pre-wash laundry additive, and XTRA NICE�N FLUFFY fabric softeners. This segment also provides personal care products, such as TROJAN condoms; NAIR depilatories; FIRST RESPONSE and ANSWER home pregnancy and ovulation test kits; ARRID antiperspirant; ARM & HAMMER, MENTADENT, CLOSE-UP, PEPSODENT, and AIM toothpastes; and SPINBRUSH battery-operated toothbrushes. The Consumer International segment primarily sells various personal care products in international markets, including France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Spain, Brazil, and China. The Specialty Products segment produces sodium bicarbonate, which it sells together with other specialty inorganic chemicals for a range of industrial, institutional, medical, and food applications. This segment also sells a range of animal nutrition and specialty cleaning products. Church & Dwight sells its products through supermarkets, drug stores, mass merchandisers, industrial customers, and distributors. The company was founded in 1846 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.
$57.97 (10/15/08)
